Designed to Swim

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So, God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:20-21


Henry M. Morris III writes in Six Days of Creation “Water-based life is the only category singled out for survival (by omission) from the great judgment of the global Flood.” That’s interesting. Have you ever thought of that before? Think about these other things Henry writes about the sea creatures:

• Oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface
• There are approximately 30,000 different species on land but with fish and other water-based living things the number jumps to well over 200,000
• Birds have tube-like lungs while marine invertebrates “rake” in oxygen from water flowing through gills and filters that sift out debris before water reaches the gills.
• Water contains 5 percent of the oxygen that is available in air. Gills can get about 85 percent of the available oxygen out of the water that flows through and over them.
• Boney pieces in the gills hang in the middle of the fish’s mouth and support very thin filaments called lamellae that collect the oxygen.
• Within the lamellae are numerous capillaries that exchange the oxygen for carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide goes back out into the water. Clever, yes?

I found Six Days of Creation a fascinating book. It is a collection of truths about God’s creation that humbles me to think about the greatness of God. 

Prayer: Dear God, your creation is unbelievable. How great and amazing you are to provide all that is around us. Develop in us belief. Amen.


Sandra Hilsabeck