Copying The Great Designer

Human technology seems to be successful copying of designs we find in nature. Oh, don't get me wrong! I thank God for scientists who stick with it until they finally discover what The Great Engineer already knew; but then, again, man can't be expected to be smarter than God!

Science has long known that an object moving through water or air moves with the least resistance when the ratio of its length to diameter is four to one. This ratio is found in the fastest swimmers in the sea – like the tuna, dolphin and swordfish.

A Boeing 707, with a ratio of nine to one, experiences much more resistance than the larger, fatter 747, which has a ratio of six to one – much closer to the tuna and the dolphin.

Studies of the vision of the horseshoe crab, supposedly one of the earlier forms of life, have taught engineers how to produce a clearer, sharper television picture.

The United States Air Force copied a speed-sensing system from beetles to improve the ground speed indicators of their jets. The optics of a frog's eye showed them how to improve their radar.

The fly's multifaceted eye taught engineers how to design a lighting system that generates more light with less energy.

If, as we are continually told, evolution is a fact, why is it that human technology improves when we copy designs found in nature? If nature is really a giant trial-and-error experiment, we should not only find evidence of less-sophisticated designs in the distant past, but humans today should be able to improve on designs found in nature.

Humans are learning from, and copying, design solutions worked out by their Creator. The brilliant designs in our world are not the result of trial and error. Nope, they've been around a long time. They just haven't been 'discovered' yet!

2012 Christian Nature