Daily Devotional \u2013 August 13<\/p>\n
Biology<\/p>\n
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Did you know that the lampsillis mussel has its own fishing lure? These mussels live in streams and lakes. When it is time to send out its larvae, it pushes part of its soft body out of its shell. This fleshy mantle mimics a little minnow \u2013 it even has \u201ceyes.\u201d The lure movement is also astonishingly like a live minnow, even gulping with its mouth.<\/p>\n
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When a \u201chost fish.\u201d a largemouth bass, comes close to the mussel and \u201ctakes the bait.\u201d the mussel shoots a cloud of larvae into the fish\u2019s mouth where they clamp onto its gills. Here the larvae stay for weeks sucking the blood from the host fish; finally, they drop off when they are large enough to survive as adult mussels.<\/p>\n
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How can a mussel evolve the right lure for the host fish? How can a mussel that has no eyes know what the lure needs to look like or when a bass will come to its lure? If the mussel did not shoot its larvae into the host fish, then it would go extinct. Throwing the word like \u201cevolution\u201d at this amazing process does not explain how it could have developed. It had to be designed to work the way it did from the beginning, or it would not work at all.<\/p>\n
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And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.<\/p>\n
~ Psalm 72:19<\/p>\n
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Source: \"Pearls in Paradise\" by authors Bruce Malone and Jule Von Vett<\/p>\n