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?
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!"
