Free Creation Facts of Life by Gary Parker

of his or her mother's body.
From conception onward, we may have genes for a blood type or hair color different from that of our mother. We may be a sex different from that of our mother — about half of us are. Our uniqueness begins at conception, and blossoms continuously throughout life.
    Embryonic development is not even analogous to evolution, which is meant to indicate a progressive increase in potential. The right Greek word instead would be
entelechy,
which means an unfolding of potential present right from the beginning. That's the kind of development that so clearly requires creative design. That's why evolutionists don't use the change from tadpole to frog as an example of evolution. Unlike the
supposed
evolution of fish to frog, all the genes necessary to change a tadpole into a frog are present right from the very beginning.
    Again, the Bible proves to be far ahead of its time. Scientists once thought (and some claimed they saw) tiny, pre-formed people in either egg or sperm cells. But 3,000 years ago, the Psalmist David talked about how God beheld his "unformed substance" in the womb, and how he was "knit together," step by step, according to God's plan. His response in Psalm 139 should be ours: "I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
    Adaptation and Ecology: The Marvelous Fit of Organisms to Their Environments
    We've looked now at molecules, bone patterns, and embryonic development, but the clearest and simplest evidence of creation is "the marvelous fit of living things to their environment." In the
Scientific American
book
Evolution,
Harvard evolutionist Richard Lewontin 30 says that "the marvelous fit of organisms to their environment …was [and I say is] the chief evidence of a Supreme Designer." In fact, Lewontin says that organisms "appear to have been carefully and artfully designed." Lewontin himself sees it only as a tough case to be solved by evolutionary theory, but other scientists might logically infer from their observations that living things
were
"carefully and artfully designed."
    There are literally thousands of examples of the unique adaptations that suit each type of organism for its special role in the web of life (Figure 9). The fantastic features of structure, function, and behavior that make the honeybee so wondrous, for example, are familiar to almost anyone. But then there's cleaning symbiosis; the explosive chemical defense system of the bombardier beetle; the navigational skills of migrating reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals, etc. Jobe Martin continues the list in a captivating series of videos called "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution." 31
Figure 9. As evolutionist Lewontin acknowledges, living things "appear to have been carefully and artfully designed. " Each type possesses various features complete and well fitted into the whole, like the tiles in an artist's mosaic. Although other animals share such adaptations with the platypus as milk glands, a leathery egg, and electric-signal sensitivity, it seems to me that all these could be put together into a single fascinating, functioning whole only by plan, purpose, and special acts of creation.
    Let me single out one example for now. Take the woodpecker, for instance. 32 Here's a bird that makes its living banging its head into trees. Whatever gave it the idea to do that in the first place? Was it frustration over losing the worm to the early bird? How did banging its head into trees increase its likelihood for survival — until
after
it had accumulated (by chance?) a thick skull with shock-absorbing tissues, muscles, etc.! What would be the survival value of all these features (and how could they build up in the population) until
after
the bird started banging its head into trees?
    The woodpecker is a marvel of interdependent parts or "compound traits," now popularly called "irreducible complexity" — traits that depend on one another for
any
to have functional value. When a woodpecker slams its head