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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
by conscious intervention.
The fundamental factor, which reveals the invalidity of the evo-
lutionist claims put forward in the film, is the exceedingly complex
nature of the design in the creatures discussed. The dolphin sonar
dealt with in the documentary is one instance of this. Dolphins pos-
sess a special organ in their heads that allows them to send out
sound waves and sense the echoes that reflect from physical bodies.
These sound waves can penetrate some 30 cm beneath the sand and
can be picked up in an amazing way by the dolphins as the envi-
ronment changes (from water to sand and back from sand to water).
In this way the dolphin plots a sort of map of what lies beneath the
sand.
Another aspect indicative of the perfection in dolphin sonar is
the way the U.S. Navy has imitated it in its own development of
sonar. Since existing forms of sonar were unable to locate mines
buried in the sand during the Gulf War, the U.S. fleet lost a number
of ships. It then set out to use the dolphin wave range in the re-
search it supported and to employ the dolphin's sensory technique
in its own vessels.
Whitlow Au, a researcher from the Hawaii Marine Biology
Institute in Kailua, together with his colleagues, managed to come
up with such a sonar system four years ago. A computerized sonar
device which monitored and decoded the echoes of the waves it
sent was added to this artificial dolphin sonar. This sonar, devel-
oped by scientists, was subjected to a number of tests and produced
very positive results, registering a 90% suc-
cess rate in locating mines buried 40 cm
under the sand. 1
As we can see, an advanced computer
needs to be used in order to imitate the ac-
tion of dolphin sonar. This animal's sonar
faculty, which does what an advanced com-
puter can do but in an even more efficient
manner, and which is also far more com-
Whitlow Au
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