ROM 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. The South American false-eyed frog is an interesting creature. Generally about 3 inches[7.62 cm] long, it is brown, black, blue, gray, and white! Drops of each color are on its skin, and it can suddenly change from one of these colors to the others, simply by masking out certain color spots.
The change-color effect that this frog regularly produces is totally amazing, and completely unexplainable by any kind of evolutionary theory.
The frog will be sitting in the jungle minding its own business, when an enemy, such as a snake or rat, will come along.
Instantly, that frog will jump and turn around, so that its back is now facing the intruder. In that same instance, the frog changed its colors!
Now the enemy sees a big head, nose, mouth, and two black and blues eyes!
All this looks so real with even a black pupil with a blue iris around it. Yet the frog cannot see any of this, for the very highly intelligently designed markings are on its back!
The normal sitting position of this frog is head high and back low. But when the predator comes, he quickly turns around, so his back faces the predator! In addition, the frog puts his head low to the ground and his hind parts high. In this position, to the enemy viewing him, he appears to be a large rat?s head! In just the right location is that face and eyes staring at you!
The frogs hind legs are tucked away together underneath his eyes?and they look like a large mouth! As he moves his hind legs, the mouth appears to move! The part of the frogs body that once was a tadpoles tail now looks like a perfectly formed nose, and it is just at the right location!
To the side of the fake face, there appear long claws! These are the frog?s toes! As the frog tucks his legs to the sides of his body, he purposely lifts up two toes from each hind foot and curls them out, so they will look like a couple of weird hooks.</blockquote>
And the frog does all this in one second!
At this, the predator leaves, feeling quite defeated. But that which it left behind is a tasty, defenseless, weak frog which can turn around quickly, but cannot hop away very fast.
The frog will never see that face on itself, so it did not put the face there. Someone very intelligent put that face there! And the face was put there by being programmed into its genes.
Well, there it is. And it is truly incredible.
How could that small, ignorant frog, with hardly enough brains to cover your little fingernail do that?
Could that frog possibly be intelligent enough to draw a portrait on the ground beneath it? No, it could not. Could it do it in living color? No!
Then how could it do it on its own back?
There is no human being in the world smart enough unaided and without mirrors to draw anything worthwhile on his own back. How then could a frog do it?
It cannot see its back, just as you cannot see yours. The task is an impossible one. And, to make matters more impossible, it does it without hands! Could you, unaided by devices or others, accurately draw a picture on your back? No. Could you do it simply by making colors to emerge on the skin? A thousand times, No.
"Portrait frog"! This is the motion-picture frog! And the entire process occurs on its back, where it will never see what is happening! And it would not have the brains to design or prepare this full-color, action pantomime even if it could see it.
Someone will comment that frogs learn this by watching the backs of other frogs. But the picture is only formed amid the desperate crisis of encountering an enemy about to leap upon it. Only the enemy sees the picture; at no other time is the picture formed.
All scientists will agree that this frog does not do these things because of intelligence, but as a result of coding within its DNA. How did that coding get there? It requires intelligence to produce a code. Random codes are meaningless and designs never arise though random activity. They require intelligent planning. Genetic codes within living creatures are the most complicated of humans to devise and fabricate.
The facts are clear. God made that frog, and He made all other living creatures also. Only His careful thought could produce and implant those codes and the physical systems they call for.
There can be no other answer.
1999 Celio Haddad
