Creation Moments

Guest (Male): Meet the Archerfish. Next on today's Creation Moment.

Ian T. Taylor: And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

The yellow and black striped archerfish shots among the insects that lands on branches overhanging his pond in the peaceful waters of the East Indies. Sometimes, he will wait under a branch until something that would make a good lunch lands upon it.

And when the archerfish finds a tasty looking insect, he shoots an accurately aimed stream of water at his prey, knocking the insect into the water. Before the insect has a chance to recover, the archerfish has eaten him and he's looking for dessert.

The archerfish has a deep groove in his mouth. When he places his tongue against this groove, he ends up with a blow tube that is about 1/16th of an inch in diameter. Compressing his gills forces the water under pressure through the blow pipe.

The rounded tip of the archerfish's tongue acts as a valve so that the archerfish can shoot a few small bursts or one long stream of water at his prey. The archerfish seldom misses if his prey is within four feet.

This simple but elegant arrangement is testimony to a wise and skillful creator. Neither mindless chance evolution nor any fish could be smart enough to design this system. Nor could any fish redesign his normal mouth tissues into this unique tool.

Here we see that our Creator even cares about providing for the needs of a fish. We know that he cares even more about our lives. In fact, he has even said so.

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