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Asia, Africa and Australia lives a remarkable creature, the archerfish,
that shoots down its prey from the air above it with a burst of water.
It uses its tongue and the top of its mouth to form a groove similar
to a gun barrel. Then, by compressing its gills, it squirts water up
to six feet with deadly accuracy—in spite of the distortion
caused by seeing the target from below the surface of water.
What's so amazing about the archerfish's ability to shoot straight?
When light passes between air and water, it is refracted, which causes
a distortion. If an archerfish simply aimed at the object where it appeared to
be from below the water, it could never hit its target! Yet scientists
have found that archerfish are able to strike their target when sighting
upwards at angles of 40 degrees!
More amazingly, marine researchers have discovered that these fish can hit their prey whether the amount of refraction is large or small. They have also found that the fishes' binocular vision allows them to see clearly at considerable distances above them, an ability other fish do not have.
An experiment
Here is an experiment. In a clear glass of water, hold a pencil at an angle halfway under the water and look at it from different positions. Notice how the pencil appears different below and above the water. That is the refraction of the light changing from the water to the air.
So how can the archerfish compensate for this distortion and know how to shoot at the right place?
Evolutionists don't know
Evolutionists still don't know how the archerfish got its amazing abilities. They can only wonder! Viewed through the distortion of evolution, they cannot explain how the archerfish gradually learned to not aim where its eyes see but to aim instead at a different spot where the target actually is.
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