Instant Fish

0:00How can you catch fish where there is only dry sand? The answer next on today's Creation Moment. And now here is our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor. Imagine that you want to catch some fish but all you can see before you is dry sand. It hasn't rained in some time and there is no sign of life. Now imagine that you also have a large tanker truck of water so you pump the water out of the tanker and let it run into a depression in the sand. Or let's say that it takes you 10 minutes to shut off the water and pull a net from the front seat. While by the time you get to the small pool you have created, you can net the fish. That's exactly what researchers did and they caught instant fish. The fish is called the Salamander fish. It lives only in the on and off again lakes and ponds of southwest Australia. And when there is plenty of rain, the fish live in the ponds feeding on insect larvae.

1:00But when the ponds dry up, the fish follow the water table underground, borrowing into the sand and entering into a kind of dormant state, evidently breathing through their skin. The Salamander fish has no living relatives and doesn't seem to be related to anything else in an evolutionary sense. Its skull is extra large and strong for its size and its spinal bones are separated, providing extra power and mobility for digging in the sand. The Salamander fish was obviously created, fully formed, with this very special ability. Just as the Bible says, all creatures were created fully formed by God. Would you like your church to experience the scientific evidence for our Creator God? Access a free library of bulletin inserts, Bible studies and videos for your entire congregation by visiting creationmoments.com or call us toll free at 1-800-42-Bible. That's 1-800-422-4253.