Tonight we have a pretty fun, apologetics illustration of creation versus evolution. There are a lot of these examples, but I happen to find this one the other day.
I’m sure everybody here knows what a gecko lizard is. And you probably know that a gecko lizard can run across the floor really fast, but he can also run up the wall, across the ceiling, even down solid glass. How can I do that?
So scientist have been able to magnify a geckos foot thousands of times. What they find under each foot is composed of millions of hairs called setae. Just one of these hairs is 1/50 of the size of a human hair. Each end of one of these hairs is split into hundreds of tiny hair ends. Each of these hair ends has the ability to either attract or repel an opposite atom. So, for simplistic sake, if one of these hairs has a positive charge and the surface on the ceiling that it wants to hang onto is negative it will attract if both are positive it will repel.
So there are hundreds of these hair ends on the tip of one hair. There are millions of these hairs on the bottom of a geckos foot. If all of these don’t work together, along with a central “computer“ to control them, the gecko cannot do these stunts.
In addition to this, a gecko can choose whether he is sticking on the wall or running fast on the floor. He can control each one of these millions of hairs and hundreds of split end on the hairs to whatever angle is necessary. At a certain angle, he can make them stick, and at another angle, he can make them repel.
There is no advantage that these hairs would give the gecko, unless they are all working together. If they only have some, they would be slower. They would be slippery and collect dust. In other words, they can’t evolve because there’s no process of “survival of the fittest” that supports growing these hairs.
Also, the gecko can’t do any of this without his unique tail. The tail allows him the balancing ability while climbing, and it helps him right itself in a fall to land on all fours. These millions of hairs and the fact that they have to be positive or negative charged, and if they gecko has no tail or a tail, and the central “computer“ to control them, all have to evolved in perfect unity
Lucky for us, they have found geckos preserved in amber. Even though the dating methods are flawed, these date back to as old as any other fossils. And guess what, the feet are exactly the same as they are today.
That kind of complexity doesn’t happen by chance, no matter how much time you allow. Without all parts functioning, there’s no reason for natural selection to “keep it.“ This is one of many examples in nature that can only point to a divine designer.