Page 69 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

genetic material from the wide variety of life on coral reefs

is used in medical research and in the development of new
drugs. Douglas Chadwick, a biologist and writer for
National Geographic magazine, expresses some of these
benefits we enjoy from the coral reefs:

Humanity's ties to the creatures living around coral reefs
may multiply as medical research taps more of the organ-
isms at home there. Some have already yielded compounds
active against inflammations, asthma, heart disease,
leukemia, tumors, bacterial and fungal infections, and
viruses, including HIV. Studies found that chemicals used
by sea slugs and certain sponges to repel fish also work on
land as insecticides. Screening the venom of tropical cone
snails for pharmaceutical properties turned up a possible
nonaddictive substitute for morphine. Sea whips, related to
true corals, offer a potential painkillers as well, while coral
skeletons themselves are being investigated as substrate for
bone grafts. 60
Each of the species living on coral reefs has been

equipped with extraordinary systems and characteristics.
For instance, some fish and other creatures have more col-
or receptors than human beings, and therefore perceive col-
ors better than we do. 61 Most coral reef fish are able to
change their colors to a certain extent, and some species

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