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Harun Yahya

Submarines’ diving techniques resemble
those of fish, which are able to control
their relative density in order to rise or
dive in the water. In their bodies, bony
fish have a swim bladder that gives them
their buoyancy. When air is added to the
swim bladder, by diffusion through the
blood vessels in the bladder walls, the
fish becomes less dense overall; when air
is removed the fish becomes more dense.
By changing the volume of air in the
bladder, the fish’s density can be made
equal to that of the surrounding water at
a given depth.

Such a depth is very dangerous to many living things. But despite
this, the nautilus remains unaffected, its shell is not crushed by the pres-
sure and its body suffers no harm.
Another very important point needs to be considered here. The nau-
tilus has possessed this system, which can withstand the pressure at some
450 meters, since the day it was created. How can it have designed this
special structure all by itself? On its own, could the nautilus have devel-
oped the gas to obtain the necessary compressed air to empty out the wa-
ter in its shell? It is definitely impossible for the creature to know how to
create the chemical reaction to produce gas, much less build the structures
in its body necessary to bring that chemical reaction about, nor to struc-
ture a shell capable of withstanding tons of water pressure.
This superior design is the work of God, Who flawlessly created
everything, with no prior models. God’s title of al-Badi’ (the Innovative
Creator), is revealed in the Qur’an:

He is the Originator of the heavens and the Earth... (Qur'an, 6: 101)

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