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If the yucca moth life history was bad enough for evolution theory
(which can only raise a few pathetic bleats about the supposed phylogeny of the plant and the moth), what can we say about the swim of the European eels?
The eel (Anguilla anguilla), which looks rather like a snake at first glance, is a fish which spends most of its life in freshwater as it grows to sexual maturity. Is found in all European countries bordering or connected to the North Atlantic.
[FONT="] When it arrives at maturity, in response to a most mysterious urge, it begins what is a nothing short of phenomenal migration, which ends in its death.
The adult eels swim down to the sea, leaving their freshwater habitat, and altering their internal physiology to handle life in salt water.
Other creatures can do this, but it is nonetheless a mighty physiological feat, as you would soon see if you added salt to your aquarium of goldfish bowl, to raise the salinity to seawater levels.
They then proceed to swim down the west coast of Europe, riding any southbound currents available, down the western coast of Africa, then they branch off toward the west, and swim to the Sargasso Sea.
It is an approximately 3000 mile swim, whic has the extraordinary feature (only recently discovered) that the eels swim at 3000 feet depth during the day, and at about 250' at night. The reason is unclear, but that is what happens. For more details, go here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8273000/8273877.stm
That is a sufficiently monumental feat all on its own.
For a submarine captain to perform a 3000 mile navigation feat at a depth of 3000 feet, with no instruments and guidance systems available, and hit the target on the nose would be described, perfectly fairly, as a modern miracle.
Yet, the eels do this every year.
But that's not the end of the story.
They spawn in the Sargasso, and as far as science knows, EVERY SINGLE ADULT dies.
The young eels which hatch out, called leptocephali migrate northward, again following the ocean currents to save energy.
When they hit the European continental shelf, they metamorphose into the transparent 'glass eels', and migrate up the rivers - changing their physiology to survive in freshwater.
It's so easy to write these words - but they conceal the most amazing realities.
Consider a baby making its way home from the hospital, making a journey of 3000 miles underwater to get there! That's probably the equivalent of a journey from Mexico to Canada. And the baby eels do it.
No parental guidance is available, since the parents are all dead - and even if they weren't, how could they make this enormous return journey?
The navigational instinct has crossed the barrier of death once more. Where does it reside? No one knows. But it is demonstrably there, and working at full blast.
So the two questions facing the evolutionists resurface once more.
How could this incredibly complex behaviour have originated?
And how could it enter the genome (which is presumably where it is)?
If a theory of origins cannot account for this absolutely MAJOR phenomenon, then of what use is it? It is of no use whatsoever in accounting for the origin of this, and a multitude of other instincts.
Should be discarded, in favour of the better explanation.
Creation does it every time.
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(which can only raise a few pathetic bleats about the supposed phylogeny of the plant and the moth), what can we say about the swim of the European eels?
The eel (Anguilla anguilla), which looks rather like a snake at first glance, is a fish which spends most of its life in freshwater as it grows to sexual maturity. Is found in all European countries bordering or connected to the North Atlantic.
[FONT="] When it arrives at maturity, in response to a most mysterious urge, it begins what is a nothing short of phenomenal migration, which ends in its death.
The adult eels swim down to the sea, leaving their freshwater habitat, and altering their internal physiology to handle life in salt water.
Other creatures can do this, but it is nonetheless a mighty physiological feat, as you would soon see if you added salt to your aquarium of goldfish bowl, to raise the salinity to seawater levels.
They then proceed to swim down the west coast of Europe, riding any southbound currents available, down the western coast of Africa, then they branch off toward the west, and swim to the Sargasso Sea.
It is an approximately 3000 mile swim, whic has the extraordinary feature (only recently discovered) that the eels swim at 3000 feet depth during the day, and at about 250' at night. The reason is unclear, but that is what happens. For more details, go here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8273000/8273877.stm
That is a sufficiently monumental feat all on its own.
For a submarine captain to perform a 3000 mile navigation feat at a depth of 3000 feet, with no instruments and guidance systems available, and hit the target on the nose would be described, perfectly fairly, as a modern miracle.
Yet, the eels do this every year.
But that's not the end of the story.
They spawn in the Sargasso, and as far as science knows, EVERY SINGLE ADULT dies.
The young eels which hatch out, called leptocephali migrate northward, again following the ocean currents to save energy.
When they hit the European continental shelf, they metamorphose into the transparent 'glass eels', and migrate up the rivers - changing their physiology to survive in freshwater.
It's so easy to write these words - but they conceal the most amazing realities.
Consider a baby making its way home from the hospital, making a journey of 3000 miles underwater to get there! That's probably the equivalent of a journey from Mexico to Canada. And the baby eels do it.
No parental guidance is available, since the parents are all dead - and even if they weren't, how could they make this enormous return journey?
The navigational instinct has crossed the barrier of death once more. Where does it reside? No one knows. But it is demonstrably there, and working at full blast.
So the two questions facing the evolutionists resurface once more.
How could this incredibly complex behaviour have originated?
And how could it enter the genome (which is presumably where it is)?
If a theory of origins cannot account for this absolutely MAJOR phenomenon, then of what use is it? It is of no use whatsoever in accounting for the origin of this, and a multitude of other instincts.
Should be discarded, in favour of the better explanation.
Creation does it every time.
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