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MARVEL OF GOD'S CREATION
#4
The
Gecko Lizard
AND
The
Human Ear
These two marvels of God's creation
are included not only to display God's incredible designs in His
creatures, but also to acquaint you more fully with the type of
information you can glean from the creationist magazine, Creation Ex
Nihilo. The following are articles in Creation Ex Nihilo
magazine Vol. 14, No. 4 of September - November 1992 (published by
Creation Science Foundation Ltd., P.O. Box 302, Sunnybank, QLD, 4109,
Australia), by Robert Kofahl, Ph.D., and Tom Wagner. In my opinion every
family should subscribe to Creation Ex Nihilo!
Dr. Robert Kofahl teaches us about the gecko
lizard on page 6.
"A Lizard on Your
Ceiling"
"The
gecko lizard can walk across your ceiling upside down without falling off. How
does it do this? Until
a few years ago scientists did not know, though they proposed several
conflicting theories. Examination of the toe-pads of the gecko with optical
microscopes at up to 2,000 diameters magnification revealed thousands of little
fibres arranged like the tufts of bristles in a toothbrush.
Yet the question
remained unanswered. An answer was finally provided by the powerful scanning
electron microscope, which was able to take a series of remarkable photographs
magnified to 35,000 diameters and more.
What
was revealed? The gecko has on its toe pads many millions of fine fibres tipped
with little suction cups, each about eight millionths of an inch in diameter. In
conjunction with this, the lizard's feet are designed so that the tips of the
toes bend or curl upward so that he can peel off the suction cups gradually at
each step and not get himself too firmly stuck to the surface. It is estimated
that the gecko has at least 500 million suction cups on his toes.
The
extraordinary microscopic structure of the gecko lizard's toe pads clearly
indicates intelligent purposeful design. No remotely plausible scheme for the
origin of the gecko's suction cups by random mutations and natural selection has
yet been proposed by evolutionary theorists. And should some scientist with a
clever imagination succeed in devising such a scheme, he would still be without
a scrap of fossil evidence to demonstrate that the hypothetical process of
evolution actually took place in the past."
"--
You can't see with the naked eye the tiny suction cups on a gecko's foot. But
each chevron-shaped ridge on the gecko's amazing foot pad is composed of
millions of fibres tipped with microscopic suction cups. This allows it to walk
upside down across your ceiling, or sideways across your wall --."
With
such marvelous evidence of a designer, how can anyone doubt the existence of
God?
In the same issue of Creation Ex
Nihilo, Tom Wagner composed a "Think Spot" detailing some
specifics concerning the human ear (page 13):
"Your
Hearing: A powerful pointer to God's creation"
"Contemplation
of the size of things that have been created can be a very effective tool
in comprehending the greatness of God. For example, consider the Creator's
technical ability in a study of human hearing. The ability of our ears to
detect sound is much greater than the minimum expected requirement for
survival had man simply evolved.
In
a book edited by David Lipscomb, 1988, Hearing Conservation in
Industry, Schools, and the Military, we read on page 303:
'The ear is capable of sensory response to sound whose pressure at
the ear drum is no greater than two ten-thousandths of a millionth of barometric
pressure. This pressure moves the ear drum about one one-hundred-millionth of an
inch. That dimension is approximately one one-hundredth the width of a hydrogen
molecule, the tiniest of all known molecules. Therefore, throughout a
significant portion of the ear's dynamic range, it is moving in sub-molecular
dimensions.'
To visually grasp the incredible sensitivity Lipscomb describes, imagine
what it would be like to watch a six-foot man, standing on the surface of the
earth, shrink to only one one-hundred-millionth of an inch. The earth, shrinking
also - but still enormous when compared to the man - would proportionately
reduce to a tiny ball no bigger than the small letter 'o' on this page! The man
would become utterly invisible, even to the powerful microscopes of today.
Given this example, a person can begin to appreciate the way God has
created the incomprehensibly tiny, as well as the unimaginably large things of
this universe. It also helps us to consider the miracle of hearing with which
our Creator has blessed us. Something we should thank Him for. After all, 'Faith
cometh by hearing...'
So praise be to God for what He has
done!"
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