An Incomparable Sensory System

Imagine that you are in a crowd of hundreds of people all moving shoulder to shoulder. If someone asked you to fit in with the crowd in such an environment, where everyone keeps moving haphazardly right and left, and, what is more, in the dark, to what extent would you be able to do so?

This, so difficult for us, is very easy for fish. That is because fish have been created together with a perfect sensory system known as the “lateral line.” This system consists of lines or dots that run along both sides of the body. The system’s sensory cells lie in a channel under the skin. The slightest pressure change that may occur in the external environment, wave movements, and the strength and direction of the current are all determined by these organs.

Evolutionists claim that one day, a species dwelling in water somehow stepped onto land and was transformed into a land-dwelling species.

There are a number of obvious facts that render such a transition impossible:

1. Weight-bearing: Sea-dwelling creatures have no problem in bearing their own weight in the sea.
However, most land-dwelling creatures consume 40% of their energy just in carrying their bodies around. Creatures making the transition from water to land would at the same time have had to develop new muscular and skeletal systems (!) to meet this energy need, and this could not have come about by chance mutations.

2. Heat Retention: On land, the temperature can change quickly, and fluctuates over a wide range. Land-dwelling creatures possess a physical mechanism that can withstand such great temperature changes. However, in the sea, the temperature changes slowly and within a narrower range. A living organism with a body system regulated according to the constant temperature of the sea would need to acquire a protective system to ensure minimum harm from the temperature changes on land. It is preposterous to claim that fish acquired such a system by random mutations as soon as they stepped onto land.

3. Water: Essential to metabolism, water needs to be used economically due to its relative scarcity on land. For instance,, the skin has to be able to permit a certain amount of water loss, while also preventing excessive evaporation. That is why land-dwelling creatures experience thirst, something the land-dwelling creatures do not do. For this reason, the skin of sea-dwelling animals is not suitable for a nonaquatic habitat.

4. Kidneys: Sea-dwelling organisms discharge waste materials, especially ammonia, by means of their aquatic environment. On land, water has to be used economically. This is why these living beings have a kidney system. Thanks to the kidneys, ammonia is stored by being converted into urea and the minimum amount of water is used during its excretion. In addition, new systems are needed to provide the kidney's functioning. In short, in order for the passage from water to land to have occurred, living things without a kidney would have had to develop a kidney system all at once.

5. Respiratory system: Fish "breathe" by taking in oxygen dissolved in water that they pass through their gills. They cannot live more than a few minutes out of water. In order to survive on land, they would have to acquire a perfect lung system all of a sudden.

It is most certainly impossible that all these dramatic physiological changes could have happened in the same organism at the same time, and all by chance.

Thanks to these special senses, fish are able to half sense and half hear vibrations. They are able to determine the location of food or predators. In addition, they are able to find their way in even the murkiest water. Moreover, they can perceive the slightest changes in temperature and pressure in the water. The lateral line is particularly sensitive to nearby low frequency vibrations, for example to footsteps on the shore, or an object falling into the water ...

You can talk, sing or even play the radio by the shore, and the fish will not be alarmed. Yet if you move something in contact with the water, if you rock a nearby jetty, for example, or throw a stone into the water, all the fish around will disappear.

This sensory organ of fish has a rather complex structure. It is impossible for fish to feel the need for such a mechanism and then produce such a perfect structure of their own free will, as the theory of evolution would have us believe. Neither is it possible for such a flawless sensory system to come into being by chance, in stages, over the course of time. It is perfectly evident that this system came into being in a single moment, and in a perfect form. The Creator of these perfect systems is Almighty God, the Lord of the Worlds.