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Hey, look at the surf!" Aaron exclaimed, as the beach party was winding down that night. A number of us approached the seashore and were awed by a beautiful green luminosity flashing through the crashing waves. This phenomenon, called bioluminescence, is caused by millions of tiny bacteria lighting up their cells as they are tossed by the surf.
Little did I imagine I was witnessing evidence against the theory of evolution.
Off the coasts of Hawaii, the bobtail squid uses this type of luminescent bacteria as a flashlight to hide its shadow from its predators and to feed. The amount of light from the bacteria, kept in an organ on the underside of the squid's body, is controlled by a lens. The squid can sense the intensity of light from the sky and modify its glow, so that the animal, seen from below, matches the background.
It is one of creation's most remarkable examples of symbiosis—the living together of two dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship—something that gives evolutionists major headaches.
How a squid developed its complex ability to capture and use tiny luminous bacteria exactly on the right part of its body, create a lens for it and even regulate the light is something scientists cannot explain. One group of experts admitted, "[Since] most animal-bacterial associations cannot be experimentally initiated, the mechanisms underlying the processes…have not been explored" ("Competitive Dominance Among Strains of Luminous Bacteria…in Squid-Vibrio Symbioses," University of Hawaii, June 22, 1998).
There are many factors that have to be exactly right to achieve what the squid can do. Evolution, in contrast, insists animals have evolved in a step-by-step process through the blind forces of random mutation and natural selection.
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