As Merry Camhi of the National Audubon
Society.(audubon.org).points
out "Unlike most bony fishes in which the survival
of millions of eggs and larvae are often largely dependent on environmental
variables, chondrichyans.(sharks
and rays).exhibit
a much closer relationship between the number of young produced and the
number of breeding adults. Kill a substantial proportion of adults and
the population cannot be expected to be replaced.
"Take, for example, the Sandbar
and Scalloped Hammerhead shark, two species frequently caught in the Atlantic
and Gulf of Mexico fisheries. The sandbar takes 13-16 years to reach maturity
and then gives birth to 8-13 pups every other year. Female hammerheads
can take up to 15 years to reach maturity and then give birth to 12-14
pups. The Spiny Dogfish.(shark).has
a similarly long growth period to reproductive maturity and produces 2-15
young every second year."....article
'Sharks Beware',
American Scientist, November/December, 1999, Volume
87, page 490.
The fact that the Hammerhead shark can perceive
very weak electromagnetic fields, an ability human beings lack, makes this
species so abundant and a tourist attraction around the world. Like other
sharks and rays, hammerheads migrate
extensively, using their detection and navigational abilities to find prey
buried out of sight and also to guide their movements back and forth from
their sea mount homes to neighboring feeding grounds.
The Great White Shark has 'jelly filled' canals.(pores).on
his snout in order for it to be able to detect
bioelectric
impulses in the water. It can detect movement from great distances.
Caribou:.Some
northern most caribou.(large
reindeer).inhabiting the Arctic islands
do not migrate south for the winter, like the more southern ranging caribou.
Paleontologists believe this to be because the distance is too great and
the energy costs of traveling too high. Well, ok...but, why are the northern
most ones able to exist throughout the winter, when their milder climate
cousins are urged to migrate.
Caribou have hollow hair so they can easily stay
on top of water when crossing rivers. Amazing!
If you're tired of reading all this, just think
how
little we are covering of all the complex systems supporting life there
are. What intelligence must be
possessed to put it all together.
The smartest chemist can't yet even produce as
effective and safe a product as the complex system designed in arctic fish
and Black Widow spiders.
Bats:.Bats
are flying mammals, the only ones! Bats are of their own order. They are
that
unique! Their wing consists of an arm that ends in a wrist with a thumb
and four separate fingers which are webbed with skin and form the ribs
of the wing.
A bird's
wing by contrast, possesses a reduced number of 'finger' bones. By
shaping their 'hands' they control the shape of their wings. A muscle complex
in the wings of all bats is different from birds and all gliding mammals.
The vampire bat is the only mammal whose entire
diet consists of blood. They do not puncture the skin. The bat painlessly
shaves off a tiny sliver of skin and drinks the blood that seeps from the
wound. Its saliva contains an agent that stops the blood from clotting
before it's finished feeding.
Studies with mitochondrial
DNA have shown that all bats are closely related and separate from primates.
In such a marvelous and complex manner, a mother
bat resorbs
calcium from her bones into her blood and passes it to her growing offspring
via
the placenta.
Evolution would provide for stupid minded people
to swallow gobbledegook
like this: 'In time.the bat 'sensed'
a need to provide better nourishment to her offspring in order to sponsor
stronger specimens, ensuring continuance of the species'.
The processes involved to accomplish how the bat
functions in providing for her young are so intricate
and interdependent that if they failed to simultaneously
function and function perfectly the very first time, there would be no
bats.
Evolution does not address the short time of pregnancy
of the bat during which this sophisticated procedure
must be able
to have occurred. Perhaps this is because it is out of the realm
of time normally needed for evolution to attain believability for its obviously
erroneous
and shallow minded tenets.
Some bats have their young in the fall season,
yet fertilization is in spring. Bats can delay fertilization for up to
five months. Why not eight or ten? Fertilization can occur soon after copulation.(sex,
the verb),
yet the development of the embryo
can be delayed for months. Bats control this? Wow! Evolution has never
accounted for the mechanism apart from flimsy.fairy
tales. These various strategies
increase chances food is available when the young are born. Gestation
period is from 50 to 120 days.
And why
would the Vampire bat have increased
complexity over other bats when it had no need to?
There are so many different habits in so many different
kinds of bats; many with opposite behavior patterns to other bats. Some
migrate 200 miles; others 1200 miles. Like birds, it's a north/south migration.
Bats migrate when they can hibernate
in winter temperatures, which some do. Most bats eat insects, fruit, etc.
Bats help keep insects in check. They eat mosquitoes, but only a few. With
all they eat nightly, they end up eating the equivalent of about half their
body weight. In tropical areas carnivorous.(flesh
eating).bats eat other bats. Some live
7 years and others 25 years. They disperse
plant seeds throughout tropical islands.
From the article.Bats
and Evolution.by Ron Lyttle ronlyttle@iname.com.on
the website creationism.org
Bats:.A
Natural History.by John Hill:."...all
fossil bats, even the oldest, are clearly fully developed bats and so they
shed little light on the transition from their terrestrial ancestor."
Bats in Question.by
Don E.Wilson, 1997, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D. C.."The
oldest known skeleton, supposedly 60 million years old, is a fully-formed
bat which apparently could echo-locate."....UCMP
(University
of California Museum of Paleontology), Berkeley, 1999,
Chiroptera:.Fossil
Record.(UCMP.Berkeley.EDU/mammal/eutheria/chirofr.html)
Ecolocation:
Bats rely mostly on their hearing in echo locating and never developed
pathways of vision common to other animals.
Whales, Dolphins, sea lions
and seals also use echolocation.
How did the bat persist and
how did it survive while it was awaiting evolution to form its radar capabilities?
Why would a bat produce its high pitched radar system pulses, unless it
also immediately had the ability to detect them? No matter which animal
one looks at, it's easy to see that all systems of any animal.had
to be.instantly
created.
Why do muscles
we use to lift things counter balance as they do, enabling us to safely
raise objects of various weights? Why
do they contract? The musculature involves arrangement, tensile strength,
motion, etc. The integration of these evinces
a marvel of engineering design.
