Saturday, December 8, 2012

The tongue of a chamelon is faster than a jet plane

It is quite difficult to distinguish a stick grasshopper from the
branches. A mantis is getting ready to prey upon a stick grasshopper.
At the same time, the flawless master of camoflauge, one of the most
fascinating of the Creations of Allah, the gecko is watching them
both by blending itself into the tree.
Although the gecko seems to catch the mantis easily, there is another
hunter which is not even observed : the chamelon.
The chamelon has a unique pair of legs and feet which enables it to
very move silently. It is almost impossible to see the chamelon
because ofits ability to change the color of its skin in accordance to
the environment. The chamelon's eyes can move independently from each
other in any direction. Thus, they can see their prey which is not
directly in their line of sight.
This chamelon also possesses a tongue that it can use as an arrow
byflinging the tongue rapidly from its mouth. The chamelons tongue can
move five times faster than the speed of a jet plane. Via its tongue,
the chamelon hits its prey and the tongue sticks to its prey by
forming a powerful vacuum effect.
The thing that accelerates the chamelon tongue is at least 10 slippery
rings of muscles between the tongue and hyoid bone. Those muscle
rings slip from their normal place and they closely press together
and they push the tongue forward. By means of this mechanism the
tongue pops out with a velocity of 1,5 meters per second. At the time
of the jactus, the hairs of the tongue dissociate from each other and
the tongue reaches to its maximum lenght. During firing; the tongue
stretches up to 6 times from its standby position; and it also
stretches up to one and a half times the body length of the cameleon .
After firing the system quickly regroups and reverts back to normal.
It is obvious that the form of these muscle rings cannot be explained
by the theory of evolution in any way. Dr. Brad Harrub, a scientist
who supports Creation, asks those questions which forms great dilemas
to the evolutionists in his article:
1) How come each of themuscle rings evolved in the right position?
2) How has the tongue enlarged to that lenght?
3)How did the accelerating muscles emerge?
4) How can the muscle rings coordinate their movements in such a way
as to allow the tongue to reach its maximum lenght?
5) How did the muscle rings develop the ability of ' dissociating from
each other like the tubesof a telescope'?
6) How could the chamelon learn and carry out re-collecting allof the
necessary muscular movements after flinging the tongue?
7) If the ability to fire the tongue is a gain as an evolutionary
benefit, why hasn't that benefit yet evolved in other animals, and
why haven't other animals haven't employed a similar hunting method?
8) How has the chamelon (or its so-called evolutionary predecessor)
survived while all of those complex systems are supposed to evolve
little by little?
Undoubtedly; He is The Almighty Allah, He is the One Who Creates the
chamelon by all its features, and He is Omniscient, Mighty and Exalted
in Power. Allah informs us in a verse from the Qur'an Verse thusly:
"And verily in cattle (too)will you find an instructive sign.From what
is within their bodies between excretions and blood, We produce, for
your drink, milk, pure and agreeable to those who drink it."
(Surat an-Nahl, 66)

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