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Engineering in Nature

it had been born two years before.
After calculating the route it had taken, the farm personnel won-
dered if other salmon had returned? On the chance that they might
find something, they removed the wooden planks of the track and ex-

amined the channel underneath. To their amazement they found 70
more salmon, all bearing the metal tags of the breeding farm!
This incredible tale provides us with some very important evi-
dence regarding creation. The journey carried out by these fish oc-
curred thanks to various systems, every phase of which had been
carefully calculated.
It's a miracle by itself that a program should command the fish to
go to the sea after being born, to spend years there, then return to the
riverbed where it was spawned. In addition, the fish also has:
Genetic information letting its body adapt to salt water from fresh
water, in line with that program,
A natural compass that lets it finds its way with total accuracy in
the vastness of the ocean, and
An exceedingly sensitive sense of smell to locate the exact riverbed
where it was hatched.
All this clearly shows that the salmon has been specially created to
perform the migration set out for it.
By itself, every one of these perfect systems is no doubt sufficient

to demolish the claim of chance put forward by evolutionists. The
salmon's journey is a marvel of planning and design that renders ri-
diculous the concept of chance.
It is Almighty God, the Lord of the Worlds and the Creator of all
living things Who created salmon with all their marvelous properties.

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