Creation Moments

Announcer: An octopus that glows in the dark? Learn about it next on today's Creation Moments. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: The deep dark depths of the ocean is filled with many varieties of luminescent creatures, but among the octopods, there are only two or three species in which the females develop luminescent rings around their mouths. But that has all changed with a remarkable series of discoveries about an already known species of octopus. The red octopus, Stauroteuthis syrtensis, lives in the deep waters off the East Coast of the United States.

In 1997, a foot-long specimen was being studied. When the scientists turned off the lights in the laboratory, they were amazed to see the octopus's suckers glowing. The blue-green glow they discovered glows brightest at 470 nanometers, a frequency that travels well underwater. Scientists said that this glow might explain how the octopus makes its living.

It doesn't eat what most octopods eat; rather, it eats tiny crustaceans whose shallow water cousins are drawn to light. If the deep water versions are drawn to light, all this clever little octopus needs to do to eat is turn on the porch light. The frequency of the light and the unusual diet of this octopus all provide evidence of God's all-wise design.

If these special features had depended upon chance to develop, this octopus would never have come about. God is the creator and source of all life. The perfect light of His truth in the gospel shines at just the right frequency to draw us to the forgiveness of sins and salvation found only in Jesus Christ.

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