Creation Moments

Guest (Male): What examples does nature teach man? Find out now on today's Creation Moments. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: If as we are continually told, evolution is a fact, why is it that man's technology improves when we copy designs found in nature? If nature is really a giant trial-and-error experiment, we should not only find evidence of less sophisticated designs in the distant past, but man should be able to improve on designs found in nature today.

Science has long known that an object moving through fluid like water or air moves with the least resistance when it has a ratio of its length to diameter of four to one. This ratio is found in the fastest swimmers in the sea, like the tuna, the dolphin, and the swordfish. A Boeing 707, with a ratio of nine to one, experiences much more resistance than the larger, fatter 747, which has a ratio of one to six, much closer to the tuna and the dolphin.

Studies of the vision of the horseshoe crab, supposedly one of the earlier forms of life, have taught engineers how to produce a clearer, sharper television picture. The United States Air Force copied a speed-sensing system from a beetle to improve the ground speed indicators of their jets.

The optics of the frog's eye showed them how to improve their radar. The fly's multifaceted eye taught engineers how to design a lighting system that gives more light with less energy.

Man is learning from and copying design solutions worked out by his Creator. The brilliant designs in our world are not the result of trial and error. This reality makes the claim that evolution is a fact of science sound simply, well, empty.

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