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Life Forms That Defy Scientific Taxonomy
By: AGelbert Date: July 22, 2015, 2:10 pm
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The amazing sea horse
by David Juhasz
The Creator offers few sights more incredible, and yet more
delicately beautiful, than a living sea horse. It swims erect
and slowly, with its tail twisting forward to perhaps grip a
seaweed frond, while its alert eyes search for food or danger.
Sea horses make popular saltwater aquarium pets, and any public
aquarium with them draws enthralled groups thronging to watch
these elegant fish drifting around their tanks. Sometimes sea
horses meet in midstream and tangle their curling tails. Then,
just as elegantly, they uncoil them from each other and sedately
swim away.
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[center]Sometimes seahorses meet in midstream and tangle their
curling tails.[/center]
Sea horses usually live along the shore, among seaweed and other
plants. They have only one mate, and generally don’t travel more
than a few metres. Their size varies from about four to 30
centimetres (1½–12 inches), and they continue to grow throughout
their three years of life.
There are various species of sea horses, including the dwarf sea
horse (an Atlantic form smaller than any other), a brown sea
horse of Europe, a large brown or blackish Pacific sea horse,
and a medium-sized sea horse of Australia.
Unique creation
So unique is the sea horse that it is difficult to accept, as
the evolutionists would like us to, that it is the product of
purposeless evolutionary forces. In fact, study the sea horse
carefully and you find evidence that points to its being
wonderfully designed by God the Creator.
A protective bony armour cleverly protects it from imminent
danger. So strong is this armour that it is almost impossible to
crush a dried dead sea horse in your hands. Its tough skeleton
makes it unappetizing for predators, so sea horses are usually
left alone.
The female is totally enclosed in this protective armour, while
the male is similarly enclosed except for the lower part of its
abdomen. The armour surrounding its body often shows a number of
bony rings.
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The sea horse is unique among fishes in that its head is set at
right angles to its body. It swims with its body held upright.
It can bend its head down or up, but not from side to side. The
inability to move its head from side to side would in other
creatures create problems, but the Creator in His wisdom has
designed the sea horse’s eyes to move independently, swivelling
about to watch each side.
The sea horse uses its fins to swim vertically, and rises or
sinks by cleverly altering the volume of gas within its swim
bladder. If this bladder is damaged, and it loses even a tiny
bit of gas, it sinks to the bottom, where it will lie helpless
until death.
If the sea horse is the product of evolution, we must ask how
this creature managed to survive while its bladder evolved? The
whole idea of the sea horse’s complex bladder evolving by trial
and error is unimaginable. Clearly, it is more reasonable to
believe it was created through the work of the Master Designer.
Babies arrive by male! :o ;D
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Probably the most amazing, if not bizarre, aspect of the sea
horse is that the male gives birth to its live young. This
strange phenomenon has been known for only the past century or
so.
The male has at the base of its abdomen, where it lacks armour
plating, a large skin pouch and a slit-like opening. The female
lays the eggs directly into this pouch, where the male
fertilizes them as they are deposited.
She may continue laying eggs until the pouch is full, perhaps
with as many as 600 eggs. The lining inside the pouch becomes
sponge-like and filled with blood vessels which play some part
in nourishing the eggs. This is an extraordinary characteristic
of the male sea horse. Egg-laying complete, the dad-to-be swims
off with his swollen pouch—a living baby carriage.
Egg-laying complete, the dad-to-be swims off with his swollen
pouch—a living baby carriage.
One or two months later he gives birth to tiny replicas of the
adults. The little bundles of joy are squirted out until the
pouch is empty. At times dad may use quite forceful muscular
contractions to eject the last of his brood. It is an incredible
sight when the young pour forth, and the process of giving birth
is exhausting for father sea horse. Baby sea horses are not
called ‘sea foals’—just ‘young’.
Evolution is at a loss to account for the sea horse’s
reproductive functions. The whole process is simply too
unorthodox. Indeed, the whole make-up of the sea horse is
something of an enigma, if one tries to explain it as a product
of evolution. As one authority said some years ago, ‘The “sea
horse”? is in a similar category with the platypus, as far as
evolution is concerned: it presents an enigma that baffles and
frustrates all theories that seek to account for it! Admit the
Divine Designer, and all is accounted for.’1
Fossil problem for evolutionists ;D
Design is evident in the seahorse, but the fossil record is
another problem for those who believe sea horses have evolved.
The evolutionist needs fossils showing a gradual development of
lower animal life into the more complex sea horse to establish
that the sea horse is the result of evolutionary processes over
millions of years. Unfortunately for the evolutionist, ‘fossil
sea horses are unknown’.2
[i]Like countless creatures of the sea, sky and land, there is
no link connecting the sea horse to any other form of life.
[/i]Like all other basic kinds of creatures, the complex sea
horse appears to have been created suddenly, as the book of
Genesis implies.
Editor’s note: As Creation magazine has been continuously
published since 1978, we are publishing some of the articles
from the archives for historical interest, such as this. For
teaching and sharing purposes, readers are advised to supplement
these historic articles with more up-to-date ones suggested in
the Related Articles and Further Reading below.
Related Articles
The Sea Horse
Enter the sea dragon
Pygmy pipehorse pipe dream
Further Reading
Giraffes
Marvellous Meerkats
Heard of elephants?
Hippo habits
Evolution of the rhinoceros? Preposterous!
Camels—confirmation of creation
Dugongs: ‘sirens’ of the sea
The Australian dingo—a wolf in dog’s clothing
Amazing armoured armadillos of the Americas
The bamboozling panda
The Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
The Colugo Challenge
Aye-aye
Spectacular, surprising seals
Catching a kinkajou
Squirrels!
The opossum’s tale
The platypus
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Dear deer—when white ‘mutants’ have a selective advantage
Bears across the world …
The Mole
Sea lilies and starfish—splendours of the sea
Beetles … nature's workaholics
Fascinating cuttlefish
Bats—sophistication in miniature
Rats: no evolution!
Frogs—Jeremiah was not a bullfrog
Creation’s Crustaceans
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Re: Life Forms That Defy Scientific Taxonomy
By: AGelbert Date: March 20, 2017, 1:30 pm
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[center]How the water bear defies death even in the vacuum of
space by wrapping its cells in glass[/center]
Tibi Puiu March 20, 2017
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[center]Tardigrade - otherwise know as a water bear[/center]
Tardigrades are the toughest, most resilient animals we know of.
They can survive temperatures from 1 K (−458 °F;
−272 °C) to about 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C), pressures six
times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches,
ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the
lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space. One
tardigrade female was brought back to life after being frozen
for 30 years then birthed 14 healthy babies.
Water bear don’t care ;D
Simply put, the tardigrade, also known as the water bear, is the
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If there’s an animal that knows how to make it against all odds,
it’s this guy and, as you might imagine, a lot of people are
interested to find out what its secret weapons are.
The water bear is able to withstand such extreme conditions by
going into a sort of safe mode, as it dries up into a little
barrel called a tun. In this form, neither heat, cold or the
wretched vacuum of space can kill it. Essentially, the tiny bear
which is smaller than 1 millimeter enters a state called
anhydrobiosis during which the metabolism shuts down.
Now, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill have found another ace up the water bear’s sleeve. During a
dry spell when water is scarce anti-dehydrating proteins called
tardigrade-specific intrinsically disordered proteins (TDPs)
become vitrified. When this happens all the tardigrade’s
dehydration-sensitive tissue and cells become protected by a
glass surface. This way, sensitive proteins and other biological
molecules are locked in place. They can’t fold, they can’t break
apart nor can they aggregate together, which explains how the
animal can survive in space and then come back to life like
nothing happened within an hour.
ALSO READ: We should prepare for bad surprises in the Arctic
climate, new report finds
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A team of scientists led by Thomas Boothby intentionally
subjected the tardigrades to conditions that would force them to
dry out. Meanwhile, they carefully monitored the animal’s gene
activity. Boothby and colleagues noticed a spike of activity in
a group of genes when the TDPs were produced. When such genes
were blocked through genetic engineering, the tardigrade died of
dehydration.
When bacteria and yeast were artificially infused with the
aforementioned genes, these became much more resilient in the
face of dehydration. This remarkable experiment suggests that,
at least partly, the tardigrade’s tricks can be passed down to
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/>would be to produce new genetically modified crops that carry
TDP genes to help them survive droughts. California’s worst
drought in history, which is still not over and sure as heck
isn’t the last, serves as a reminder that such crops are badly
needed.
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Previously, a 2008 study concluded that the tardigrade’s
anhydrobiosis is linked to specialized sugars called trehalose.
Tree frogs use the same sugar molecules to come with dry
environments as well but not everyone was convinced the water
bear uses the same mechanism because the study could only find
trehalose-linked processes in only one species of tardigrade.
Indeed, Boothby found tardigrades either don’t make or make very
little amounts of trehalose.
It’s amazing however that TDPs work much in the same way as
trehalose — they both protect cells by forming literally glass
structures. So, what we’re essentially dealing with is yet
another textbook example of convergent evolution
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two animals
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[quote]Agelbert NOTE: "Convergent Evolution" is one of those
Darwinian Religion Euphemisms that true Darwinian believer
scientists come up with when are faced with NON-Evolution but
decide to stick the word, "evolution" into a mechanism that
provides ZERO evidence for it. And then they, with chins held
high and a haughty look in their eye, say Creationists are
closed minded. ::)[/quote]
Another water bear trick involves using other proteins to shield
its DNA against radiation. [img width=25
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/>A previous research found 17.5 percent of a tardigrade’s geno
me
was comprised of foreign DNA, including genes from bacterial
species that can withstand extreme pressure and heat.
Next, the researchers plan on investigating other animals and
even plant seeds which seem to survive desiccation to see
whether they use the same proteins. Besides drought-resistant
crops, such investigations might one day lead to amazing
practical applications. One immediate application could be a new
medium for storing vaccines and pharmaceuticals at room
temperature by using dehydration instead of refrigeration. A
much farther away application might involve dehydrating people
to induce a hibernation-like state, which could be useful in
interstellar flight.
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Journal ref: T.C. Boothby et al., “Tardigrades use intrinsically
disordered proteins to survive desiccation,” Molecular Cell,
doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.018, 2017.
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Agelbert NOTE: The Humble Tardigrades may very well Inherit the
Earth.
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Re: Life Forms That Defy Scientific Taxonomy
By: AGelbert Date: April 21, 2017, 8:00 pm
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[center]The African naked mole-rat can keep its brain alive for
more than 5 hours with no oxygen :o[/center]
Last updated on April 21st, 2017 at 2:30 pm by Alexandru Micu
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[center]There’s no metabolic tweak that would make them less
ugly though.
Image credits Thomas Park / UIC.
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You know what would really ruin your day? A lack of oxygen.
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But that’s only because we’re humans and not the awesome
Heterocephalus glaber or African naked mole-rat. Individuals of
this species are used to living jam-packed with hundreds of
their kin in small, poorly-ventilated burrows — where the
oxygen-o-meter often falls below breathable levels. So the
hairless critters have evolved
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/>to counteract this by copying a part of the plant metabolism.
Understanding how their bodies do this could open the way to
treatments for patients suffering crises of oxygen deprivation,
as in heart attacks and strokes.
[quote]“This is just the latest remarkable discovery about the
naked mole-rat — a cold-blooded mammal that lives decades longer
than other rodents, rarely gets cancer, and doesn’t feel many
types of pain,” says Thomas Park, professor of biological
sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lead
author of the study.[/quote]
The team exposed naked mole-rats to low oxygen conditions in lab
settings, and subsequently found high concentrations of fructose
in their bloodstream. This compound was shuttled to neurons via
molecular fructose pumps which are only used in the intestine
walls of all other mammal species. Park’s team reports that when
oxygen levels fall, the naked mole-rats’ brain cells begin
metabolizing fructose, a process which releases energy without
needing any oxygen. Up to now, this metabolic pathway was only
documented in plants — so finding it in the moles was a big
surprise.
Fructose metabolism allows the moles to live more than five
hours through oxygen levels low enough to kill a human in
minutes. Since only their brains are kept at full power by the
compound, the moles enter a state of suspended animation in
which they exhibit drastically reduced movement and a much lower
pulse and breathing rate to save up on energy. It’s the only
mammal known to use a suspended-animation state to power through
oxygen deprivation.
They’re also seemingly immune to pulmonary edemas — the buildup
of fluid which clogs the lungs of mammals in low-oxygen
environments, such as climbers at high altitude.
“The naked mole-rat has simply rearranged some basic
building-blocks of metabolism
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to make it super-tolerant
to low oxygen conditions,” park adds.
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supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat” has been
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Agelbert NOTE: The claim that the naked mole rate "evolved" this
ability to survive without oxygen is an assumption lacking
evidence.
Until they PROVE that, at one time, the metabolism of
Heterocephalus glaber did NOT have this ability coded into it's
DNA as a potential ADAPTATION from the ORIGINAL DNA package, it
is irresponsible, as well as scientifically inaccurate, to
equate adaptation with evolution.
They also need to prove that Heterocephalus glaber burrow
populations were once well ventilated or/and had small
populations not requiring this ability.
Scientists would have to document the DNA genome difference when
the moles obtained that ability. If there is NO DNA difference,
there is NO evolution.
A gene coding sequence that is dormant and gets triggered by
environmental conditions is NOT a change in the package and is
called ADAPTATION, not Evolution.
Natural Selection is a SUBTRACTIVE process. There is NO evidence
that Natural Selection is an additive process.
Rant follows after a simplistic, reductionist video
("allegations of harm by some technology are scientifically
invalid bullshit if you personally cannot test the hypothesis")
made by an Evolution True Believer that distorts the scientific
method AND completely avoids the mention of the Precautionary
Principle of Science.
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There are many occasions in our lives when a hypothesis cannot
be tested. However, the Precautionary Principle of science
dictates that a potentially harmful activity, such as
vaccination, burning fossil fuels, hormone disrupting chemicals
from chemical plant pollutants, ETC. must NOT be allowed to
continue.
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Also, Evolution is not considered BS, but, so far (and believe
me, they have tried FOR OVER 20 YEARS with an ongoing E. Coli
experiment to see when they "evolve" WITHOUT SUCCESS), they have
not been able to test the hypothesis OR obtain any
reproducibility in regard to evolution.
Nevertheless, every single competing theory has been discarded
BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY as being "unscientific"...
Have you heard about the scientific community consensus that,
because the Fibonacci ratio, and a few more sine qua non
conditions required for life in our universe, are totally
NON-RANDOM, we therefore must be inhabiting a matrix, rather
than a universe created by a Supreme Being (i.e. God). So what
happened to Occam's razor THERE, huh?
And spare me the six day creation mockery. The Bible is not a
science book!
But Fibonacci down to the QUANTUM LEVEL is evidence of a
creator, not a matrix.
Now you can claim we are just a randomly perfect universe in an
endless amount of lifeless universes. AGAIN, you discard Occam's
Razor and reach for your Atheist endowment bias. And then you
claim you don't believe BS. LOL!
Someday, when scientists decide to stop confusing ADAPTATION
from a pre-existing DNA package with "evolution", the
evolutionists will stop believing in Bullshit. Natural Selection
is a SUBTRACTIVE process in complex organisms, despite the
ability of bacteria to take up plasmids randomly and mutate. The
"bacteria mutated to become complex organisms" dog won't hunt in
ANY serious use of the Scientific Method, simply because you
CANNOT TEST THAT HYPOTHESIS.
The hypothesis that "Natural Selection is a subtractive Process"
HAS BEEN TESTED. Why do you evolutionists refuse to accept the
Scientific Method RESULTS?
Have a nice day.
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