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Dave MillerThe very idea that a lizard came from a fish, or

a human came from an ape-like ancestor is silly. Even millions of years of gradual changes would not cause such a thing. So, even on the face of it, the theory of evolution is untrue. In addition, there are many proofs that show evolution is false. One of those proofs is symbiosis (sim-bee-OH-sus). Symbiosis refers to the relationship between two or more plants or animals of dif-

ferent species that depend on each other to survive.

Each provides a necessary service to the other. For example, hummingbirds fly to flowers to get the nectar they need to live, but in the process they collect pollen and take it to other plants so those plants can be pollinated and also live.

Evolutionists try hard (without success) to explain the existence of symbiosis in plant and animal species. They say that species that depend on each other for survival must have “co-evolved.” Darwin talked about his belief that “a flower and a bee might slowly become, either simultane-ously or one after the other, modified and adapt-ed in the most perfect manner to each other, by the continued preservation of individuals presenting mutual and slightly favourable devia-

tions of structure.” But this thinking is silly. The “continued preservation of individuals” is what is at stake. Not only could flowers and humming-birds not have evolved in the first place (since the Law of Biogenesis forbids such), they could not have evolved together. There would be no time for them to do so. If the plant was not pollinated by the hummingbird, the plant would soon die! If the plant’s flower did not provide the hum-mingbird with nectar, the bird would soon die of starvation—and that would be the end of those species! No time for “evolution”!

In fact, all species of insects, animals, and plants whose lives depend on other creatures would have only a matter of days, weeks, or months at the most before they would die. No organism could have survived for millions of years as it waited for “gradual changes” to occur so that the symbiosis relationship could “slowly become” workable. Both parties in a symbiotic relationship would have to be in existence together, each fully operational and doing its job, for both to survive.

Consider, for example, the Oceanic Whitetip Shark—a competitive, fearless predator that does not avoid trouble in favor of an easier meal. Famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau de-scribed the Oceanic Whitetip as “the most dan-gerous of all sharks.” This shark feeds on bony fishes including lancetfish, oarfish, barracuda, jacks, dolphinfish, marlin, tuna, mackerels—and even garbage. If other species of sharks are en-countered, the Whitetip becomes aggressive and dominates over them. It will bite into schools of bony fishes, and swim through schools of feeding tuna with wide-open jaws, scooping up the tuna as they unknowingly swim into the shark’s mouth.

Of course, consuming all those smaller fish causes bits of food and parasites to collect around their teeth. Food particles can produce disease or a build-up of matter that can hinder eating. So God created this ferocious predator to allow Pilot fish to swim into its mouth to clean away food particles from between its teeth! God created the Pilot fish to act as a biologi-cal toothbrush! The shark is relieved of painful parasites and the Pilot fish gains protection by getting to hang around a fierce predator. Their symbiotic relationship is proof of God!

Another amazing example of symbiosis in-volving completely different species of sea life is the “Watchman Goby” and the shrimp. The shrimp digs and maintains a burrow in the sand for itself and the fish to live in. The constantly moving ocean water continually shifts the sand around and would fill up the burrow if not for the relentless efforts of the shrimp. In the mean time, the Goby keeps watch for danger, and actu-ally warns the almost blind shrimp of possible predators. The shrimp uses its antennae to keep in contact with the fish, and the Goby flicks the shrimp with its tail when alarmed by a possible threat. Both benefit from this amazing symbiotic relationship: the shrimp gets a warning of ap-proaching danger, and the goby gets a safe home and a place to lay its eggs.

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organisms to speak to humans—if we will listen—that the Creator exists. Indeed, “There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard” (Psalm 19:3).

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Have you ever been to a dairy farm? If you have, you know that dairy farmers take very good care of their cows. Since cows produce milk, and humans love to drink milk, cows and humans can help each other. They can have a symbiotic relationship in which humans feed, care for, and protect the cows. In return, the cows produce milk that helps keep humans healthy and strong.

Did you know that humans are not the only farmers in the world? In fact, God created certain kinds of ants to be good farmers as well. What do ants farm? Do they farm cows or goats? No. They aren’t big enough to farm animals like that. Instead, ants farm much smaller insects called aphids. Most aphids are very small, much smaller than the ants that farm them. Furthermore, aphids have very few natural defenses. They do not have powerful jaws like ants, and most aphids cannot fly away or run very fast to escape predators. That means that aphids can really use some protection from bugs like lady-bugs and lacewings that eat them.

That is where ants enter the picture. They protect the aphids from other insects that attempt to eat them. Since ants can move quickly, are very strong, and have powerful jaws, they provide wonderful protection for the aphids. In return, the aphids give the ants something that the ants want. Aphids suck juice out of plants in order to get nitrogen. To get enough ni-trogen, they have to “drink” a lot of plant juice. When their bodies take the juice in, they take out the nitrogen, and get rid of the sugars that their bod-ies do not use. The “left-over” sugary part of the juice that aphids excrete is called honeydew. If you know anything about ants, you know that they love sugary substances. It just so happens that the honeydew that aphids send out of their bodies is

the perfect, nutritious meal for ants. The ants gently “milk” the aphids with their antennas and the aphids give them honeydew.

The amazing symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids cannot be explained by evolution. Only

God could design creatures like ants and aphids that can work together in such won-

derful ways.

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When people talk about symbiotic relationships, they mainly discuss animals or plants such as ants and aphids, sharks and Pilot fish, and yucca plants and moths. But if you think about it, the Lord’s church is a great example of symbiosis in which one person or group helps other people or groups. The Lord and His apostles constantly taught that Christians are sup-posed to help all people, especially other Christians. In Galatians 6:10, Paul wrote: “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.” The phrase “house-hold of faith” means all those who are members of the

Lord’s Church. Paul wrote to the young preacher Titus: “And let our people also learn to main-tain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful” (Titus 3:14).

The Lord designed His Church to form symbi-otic relation-ships among them-selves and with those

who are not Christians. It is easy to see how this works. Some members of the Church are very gifted public speakers and preachers. They can build other Christians up by teaching God’s Word. They can help those outside the Church by showing them God’s plan of salvation and converting them to Christ. Other Christians are good businessmen or businesswomen. They can earn money through their businesses and give it to the Church. The Church can then use that money to

help feed poor people, give clothes and medicine to those in need, or provide shelter for those who might not have a place to stay.

There are others in the Church who might have lots of free time. They can use their time to visit people in hospitals or nursing homes, or to take food to older people who cannot get out of their homes. Still others in the Church have special skills that they can use to help. Some members of the Church are doctors that go to foreign countries and take care of sick people.

When we think about symbiosis, we should not forget that humans can be very helpful to their fel-low humans. Those of us who are Christians should always be looking for ways that we can help our fel-low Christians, as well as those who are not Christians. Many times, those who are not Chris-tians will see how we try to help people, and glo-rify our Father Who is in heaven (Matthew 5:16).

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ActIvIty 1. Symbiosis refers to a written language of symbols.

2. Symbiosis is proof that ev-erything evolved by time and chance over billions of years.

3. Hummingbirds need nectar to survive. 4. Oceanic Whitetip Sharks are competitive

and fearless predators. 5. God created yucca plants on day three of

Creation. 6. Yucca moths evolved millions of years after

yucca plants. 7. SymbiosisisoneofthemanyproofsofGod’s

existence. 8. TheLord’schurchisagreatexampleofsym-

biotic relationships.

A. ShrimpB. Yucca plantC. AphidsD.CertainkindsoffloweringplantsE.Pilotfish

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Dear Digger Doug, DidNoahtakeseedsonthearktorefilltheEarth?—Ethan, Vicksburg, MS.Dear Ethan,I can tell that you have really given a lot of thought to the biblical story of Noah and the Flood. First, we know that Noah and his family ate cer-tain kinds of plants (fruits and vegetables) before the Flood (Genesis 9:3). And we know that God told Noah: “You shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them” (Genesis 6:21). Furthermore, after Noah got off the ark, the Bible says he became a farmer and planted a vineyard. The best explanation is that he carried the grapes or grape seeds on the ark with him and brought them out of the ark when the Flood was over. We also know that many of the plants or their seeds made it through the Flood even though they were not in the ark. For instance, the dove that Noah sent out came back to him with an olive branch in its beak. The olive tree was growing outside the ark before Noah and his family could have gotten out to plant it. We see, then, that Noah and his family took some seeds with them on the ark, while other plants and trees sprung from seeds or shoots that survived the Flood.

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1. The “left-over” sugary part of the juice that aphids excrete. ______________

2. The relationship between two or more plants or animals of different species that depend on each other to survive. _____________

3. These protect the aphids from oth-er insects that attempt to eat them. ______________

4. A shrimp uses its antennae to keep in contact withthisfish.____________

5. This apostle wrote: “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.” ___________

6. The person to whom Paul wrote: “And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful.” __________

Match the animals and/or plants that depend on each other to survive.

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When people think of symbiotic relationships, they often think about animals helping other animals. But, it is also the case that many times animals assist plants, while plants, in return, help animals. Take, for instance, the yucca moth and the yucca plant created by Yahweh (the Hebrew word for Jehovah).

The pollination of yucca plants is different from all other plants. The flowers of yucca plants can only be

pollinated by yucca moths. When a female yucca moth collects pollen from the yucca flower, she then bores holes and lays eggs in the base of the female part of the flower. Afterwards, the moth flies to the top of the flower and crawls onto the stigma, where she unloads the flower’s pollen in order for pollination to occur.

Soon, the yucca flower will be able to produce seeds. In the

meantime, the yucca moth eggs will have hatched. The moth caterpillars survive by eating some of the seeds of the yucca plant, which is all they eat—yucca seeds and yucca seeds only. But the caterpillars do not eat all of the seeds. Many seeds are left to fall to the ground to become new yucca plants.

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So, yucca moths need yucca plants and yucca plants need yucca moths? Exactly! This grand design and de-pendence on each other for survival testifies to a Grand Designer. But what do yucca moths and yucca plants have to do with the Earth’s age? Sadly, some people think that the days of Creation were not really “days,” but rather millions or billions of years of time. Though these people are wrong for several reasons, one of those reasons is simply this: If yucca plants were created on day three of Creation (Genesis 1:9-13), but day three was really a million years long, how could yucca plants survive so long without yucca moths, which would not be cre-ated until later in the Creation week (allegedly millions of years later)?

The fact that yucca plants are dependent on yucca moths to survive (and vice versa), proves that yucca plants could not have been around millions of years without yucca moths. In truth, they were created in the same week—just as the Bible teaches!

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