Barreleye Fish (Spookfish) Intelligent Design
by Owen Borville
July 6, 2019
Biology
The barreleye (also known as the spookfish) is a small fish with a length of six to seventeen inches. This strange and unique fish is named for its vertical barrel-shaped or tube-shaped eyes, but its most notable feature may be its transparent head. The eye is enclosed inside a transparent dome of soft tissue that makes up the outer head of the barreleye fish.
Each eye is split into two connected parts, one part pointing upward giving a view above, while the other part points downward and looks like a bump on the side of the fish's head. These unique eyes can view either downward or upward and give the barreleye fish telescopic view from above and below, as its eyes operate like vertically-mounted telescopes.
While the eyes of all other backboned animals use a lens to divert the path of incoming light and focus it onto a specific point of the retina, the downward-facing eye of the spookfish uses mirrors instead, substituting a lens in favor of hundreds of tiny crystals arranged into a multi-layer stack that collect and focus light. Light is reflected rather than refracted like in most animal eyes and the barreleye is the first known vertebrate to reflect light in its eyes with a mirror to create an image instead of refracting from a lens.
Light entering its outer eye hits the mirror, which is composed of stacks of crystals, likely guanine crystals. These stacks of crystals are positioned roughly parallel to one another, but the surface of the mirror has a concave shape. The concave-shaped mirrors focus reflected light on the retina. Scientists even believe that the barreleye can adjust the position of the mirror to focus on objects in different locations.
The barreleye fish's eyes are similar to the scallop, which also has telescope-like eyes and one of the few other animals with similar eyes. The use of a mirror to produce a clear image instead of a lens has a great advantage in the dim-light ocean waters.
The barreleye is a deep-water fish and is commonly found at depths of over 2,000 feet. The barreleye is found in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans and commonly eats jellyfish. The dome shaped head is filled with a clear fluid that allows a strong sensitivity to light and its barrel-shaped eyes normally point upward but these eyes can actually move and rotate so that they point forward when the barreleye feeds. The barreleye cannot see sideways or laterally, however. This fish also has a small mouth, no teeth, and a pointed snout, along with two nostrils above the mouth. The barreleye fish also has large, flat fins that allow strong control over its motion in the deep waters.
The barreleye fish also has a unique method of hunting for food, as it stays motionless in the deep waters and looks upward while their complex eyes enable them to see long distances upward. Engineers have used the barreleye to design the glass canopy of jet fighter planes. The design observed in the anatomy of the barreleye is evident and could only be the result of a creation by an intelligent designer that had His creation in mind. While animals can adapt to their environment, the barreleye is just another animal species that defies standard evolutionist philosophies and exemplifies a special creation by an Intelligent Designer.
by Owen Borville
July 6, 2019
Biology
The barreleye (also known as the spookfish) is a small fish with a length of six to seventeen inches. This strange and unique fish is named for its vertical barrel-shaped or tube-shaped eyes, but its most notable feature may be its transparent head. The eye is enclosed inside a transparent dome of soft tissue that makes up the outer head of the barreleye fish.
Each eye is split into two connected parts, one part pointing upward giving a view above, while the other part points downward and looks like a bump on the side of the fish's head. These unique eyes can view either downward or upward and give the barreleye fish telescopic view from above and below, as its eyes operate like vertically-mounted telescopes.
While the eyes of all other backboned animals use a lens to divert the path of incoming light and focus it onto a specific point of the retina, the downward-facing eye of the spookfish uses mirrors instead, substituting a lens in favor of hundreds of tiny crystals arranged into a multi-layer stack that collect and focus light. Light is reflected rather than refracted like in most animal eyes and the barreleye is the first known vertebrate to reflect light in its eyes with a mirror to create an image instead of refracting from a lens.
Light entering its outer eye hits the mirror, which is composed of stacks of crystals, likely guanine crystals. These stacks of crystals are positioned roughly parallel to one another, but the surface of the mirror has a concave shape. The concave-shaped mirrors focus reflected light on the retina. Scientists even believe that the barreleye can adjust the position of the mirror to focus on objects in different locations.
The barreleye fish's eyes are similar to the scallop, which also has telescope-like eyes and one of the few other animals with similar eyes. The use of a mirror to produce a clear image instead of a lens has a great advantage in the dim-light ocean waters.
The barreleye is a deep-water fish and is commonly found at depths of over 2,000 feet. The barreleye is found in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans and commonly eats jellyfish. The dome shaped head is filled with a clear fluid that allows a strong sensitivity to light and its barrel-shaped eyes normally point upward but these eyes can actually move and rotate so that they point forward when the barreleye feeds. The barreleye cannot see sideways or laterally, however. This fish also has a small mouth, no teeth, and a pointed snout, along with two nostrils above the mouth. The barreleye fish also has large, flat fins that allow strong control over its motion in the deep waters.
The barreleye fish also has a unique method of hunting for food, as it stays motionless in the deep waters and looks upward while their complex eyes enable them to see long distances upward. Engineers have used the barreleye to design the glass canopy of jet fighter planes. The design observed in the anatomy of the barreleye is evident and could only be the result of a creation by an intelligent designer that had His creation in mind. While animals can adapt to their environment, the barreleye is just another animal species that defies standard evolutionist philosophies and exemplifies a special creation by an Intelligent Designer.