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 of its 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
by flinging 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 the muscle 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 tubes of a telescope'?
6) How could the chamelon learn and carry out re-collecting all of
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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