Jellyfish Intelligent Design
by Owen Borville
July 24, 2020
Biology
What is a jellyfish? Despite its name, it is not a fish and has no jelly in its body, although its body may resemble jelly somewhat-its gelatinous body. The jellyfish is an intelligently designed creature that could not have evolved from simpler organisms. Hundreds of jellyfish species have been classified but all have similar anatomical features that defy an evolutionary sequence. They appear in the fossil record as jellyfish, as old as 600 million years in the evolutionary time scale. These "living fossils" have not changed, therefore should be much younger. The fact that jellyfish fossils even exist suggest that these marine animals were deposited and fossilized by a catastrophic flood and not over millions of years of tranquil rise and fall of sea level.
Jellyfish Show Design in their Anatomy and Abilities
Some jellyfish are classified with Cnidaria, while others are classified with Ctenophora, which showcase their difficulty in classification. Jellyfish grow as long as they live, and they live throughout the world's oceans. Jellyfish size ranges from half an inch wide to the eight foot wide and 100 foot tentacle Lion's Mane jelly. Jellyfish anatomy commonly consists of a bell-shaped, umbrella head with long tentacles extending below. Some jellyfish don't have tentacles.
Jellyfish have no brain, no respiratory system, no circulatory system or heart, no excretory system, but their mouth excretes waste. Jellyfish also have no bones, teeth, blood, or fins. Although without a brain, jellyfish have senses inside a nerve net that enable them to detect light, gravity, and hormones. The jellyfish uses its uniquely designed muscles in the bell to pulsate its body in a wave-like motion. Jellyfish are made of 95 percent water.
Jellyfish move by jet propulsion, while the water currents also move them, therefore they are classified with zooplankton.
Their pulsating propulsion motion has been described as energy efficient and is being studied for the design of future underwater vehicles. Jellyfish have even inspired the design of flying machines.
Some jellyfish are transparent and jellyfish have many colors. Some glow in the dark with bioluminescent organs, which can help them attract prey or distract predators. This glowing capability is being studied for use in powering medical devices.
Jellyfish bodies have either radial symmetry or biradial symmetry. The interior of their bodies are made up of a thick, elastic, jelly-like substance. The jellyfish commonly eats a variety of marine organisms. Some jellyfish use their stinging cells to capture prey along with their arms or tentacles to ingest the prey into its stomach from under the bell. Some jellies also secrete large sheets, or nets of mucus to capture small plankton. Sometimes this net is located inside the body or outside and varies widely in size-from one inch to six feet.
If a jellyfish is cut in two, it can create two new organisms or produce hundreds of offspring.
In times of stress, some jellyfish can convert into a stationary polyp as it was in its youth.
Symbiotic relationship with fish: Some fish like to hang out near the tentacles of a jellyfish, which allows them to find food scraps from the jelly or eat parasites off of the jellyfish.
Jellyfish Sting Venom Defense Mechanisms
Predators of jellyfish include a variety of fish and sea turtles. Jellyfish nematocysts, or specialized cells in the tentacles of a jellyfish, contain a barbed or venomous coiled thread that can be projected in self-defense or to capture prey, and only sting when triggered by touching an object. Jellyfish venom can be deadly to humans, such as box jellies, irukandji, or sea wasp, but in some varieties, there is just stinging pain.
Sea turtles are immune to the jellyfish venom and eat them. Sea slugs are also immune to jellyfish venom and eat jellyfish and steal their venom to use as their own defense mechanism. How could any animal develop an immunity to deadly jellyfish venom? They would die before reproducing. Evolution is impossible and Design is evident.
by Owen Borville
July 24, 2020
Biology
What is a jellyfish? Despite its name, it is not a fish and has no jelly in its body, although its body may resemble jelly somewhat-its gelatinous body. The jellyfish is an intelligently designed creature that could not have evolved from simpler organisms. Hundreds of jellyfish species have been classified but all have similar anatomical features that defy an evolutionary sequence. They appear in the fossil record as jellyfish, as old as 600 million years in the evolutionary time scale. These "living fossils" have not changed, therefore should be much younger. The fact that jellyfish fossils even exist suggest that these marine animals were deposited and fossilized by a catastrophic flood and not over millions of years of tranquil rise and fall of sea level.
Jellyfish Show Design in their Anatomy and Abilities
Some jellyfish are classified with Cnidaria, while others are classified with Ctenophora, which showcase their difficulty in classification. Jellyfish grow as long as they live, and they live throughout the world's oceans. Jellyfish size ranges from half an inch wide to the eight foot wide and 100 foot tentacle Lion's Mane jelly. Jellyfish anatomy commonly consists of a bell-shaped, umbrella head with long tentacles extending below. Some jellyfish don't have tentacles.
Jellyfish have no brain, no respiratory system, no circulatory system or heart, no excretory system, but their mouth excretes waste. Jellyfish also have no bones, teeth, blood, or fins. Although without a brain, jellyfish have senses inside a nerve net that enable them to detect light, gravity, and hormones. The jellyfish uses its uniquely designed muscles in the bell to pulsate its body in a wave-like motion. Jellyfish are made of 95 percent water.
Jellyfish move by jet propulsion, while the water currents also move them, therefore they are classified with zooplankton.
Their pulsating propulsion motion has been described as energy efficient and is being studied for the design of future underwater vehicles. Jellyfish have even inspired the design of flying machines.
Some jellyfish are transparent and jellyfish have many colors. Some glow in the dark with bioluminescent organs, which can help them attract prey or distract predators. This glowing capability is being studied for use in powering medical devices.
Jellyfish bodies have either radial symmetry or biradial symmetry. The interior of their bodies are made up of a thick, elastic, jelly-like substance. The jellyfish commonly eats a variety of marine organisms. Some jellyfish use their stinging cells to capture prey along with their arms or tentacles to ingest the prey into its stomach from under the bell. Some jellies also secrete large sheets, or nets of mucus to capture small plankton. Sometimes this net is located inside the body or outside and varies widely in size-from one inch to six feet.
If a jellyfish is cut in two, it can create two new organisms or produce hundreds of offspring.
In times of stress, some jellyfish can convert into a stationary polyp as it was in its youth.
Symbiotic relationship with fish: Some fish like to hang out near the tentacles of a jellyfish, which allows them to find food scraps from the jelly or eat parasites off of the jellyfish.
Jellyfish Sting Venom Defense Mechanisms
Predators of jellyfish include a variety of fish and sea turtles. Jellyfish nematocysts, or specialized cells in the tentacles of a jellyfish, contain a barbed or venomous coiled thread that can be projected in self-defense or to capture prey, and only sting when triggered by touching an object. Jellyfish venom can be deadly to humans, such as box jellies, irukandji, or sea wasp, but in some varieties, there is just stinging pain.
Sea turtles are immune to the jellyfish venom and eat them. Sea slugs are also immune to jellyfish venom and eat jellyfish and steal their venom to use as their own defense mechanism. How could any animal develop an immunity to deadly jellyfish venom? They would die before reproducing. Evolution is impossible and Design is evident.