THE JESUS LIZARD TRAMPLES EVOLUTION
The Basilisk lizard, also known as the "Jesus Lizard" runs across water. Not by any supernatural means of course.
Researchers in 2004 investigated the anatomy and physiology that enables this slender, roughly two-foot long reptile to scamper on water, publishing their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They discovered that moving across water requires unique features. This lizard doesn't really crawl across water—it motors. The study authors wrote,
The hindlimb no longer functions like a spring but instead acts more like a piston, limited to only generating force during a step. The slap phase of a step is critical for generating sufficient vertical force to balance the basilisk's body weight, whereas both slap and stroke phases are important for generating fore–aft force.
Their hind legs also slide away from the body's center during each step. This keeps the lizard from sinking much like the way forward motion keeps a bicycler from toppling. Its long toes provide just enough surface area. In short, it has every trait and habit required to tread water, including a lightweight body and complicated muscle coordination.
Why has nobody even proposed a step-by-step scenario by which these traits and habits could have evolved by any purely natural means? Even if they did, this type of imaginative evolutionary storytelling would be a poor substitute for science.
It is also worth noting that these lizards have absolutely no evolution seen in fossils. They are the same as their ancestral counterparts.
Source: ICR Institute For Creation Research
The Basilisk lizard, also known as the "Jesus Lizard" runs across water. Not by any supernatural means of course.
Researchers in 2004 investigated the anatomy and physiology that enables this slender, roughly two-foot long reptile to scamper on water, publishing their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They discovered that moving across water requires unique features. This lizard doesn't really crawl across water—it motors. The study authors wrote,
The hindlimb no longer functions like a spring but instead acts more like a piston, limited to only generating force during a step. The slap phase of a step is critical for generating sufficient vertical force to balance the basilisk's body weight, whereas both slap and stroke phases are important for generating fore–aft force.
Their hind legs also slide away from the body's center during each step. This keeps the lizard from sinking much like the way forward motion keeps a bicycler from toppling. Its long toes provide just enough surface area. In short, it has every trait and habit required to tread water, including a lightweight body and complicated muscle coordination.
Why has nobody even proposed a step-by-step scenario by which these traits and habits could have evolved by any purely natural means? Even if they did, this type of imaginative evolutionary storytelling would be a poor substitute for science.
It is also worth noting that these lizards have absolutely no evolution seen in fossils. They are the same as their ancestral counterparts.
Source: ICR Institute For Creation Research
THE JESUS LIZARD TRAMPLES EVOLUTION
The Basilisk lizard, also known as the "Jesus Lizard" runs across water. Not by any supernatural means of course.
Researchers in 2004 investigated the anatomy and physiology that enables this slender, roughly two-foot long reptile to scamper on water, publishing their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They discovered that moving across water requires unique features. This lizard doesn't really crawl across water—it motors. The study authors wrote,
The hindlimb no longer functions like a spring but instead acts more like a piston, limited to only generating force during a step. The slap phase of a step is critical for generating sufficient vertical force to balance the basilisk's body weight, whereas both slap and stroke phases are important for generating fore–aft force.
Their hind legs also slide away from the body's center during each step. This keeps the lizard from sinking much like the way forward motion keeps a bicycler from toppling. Its long toes provide just enough surface area. In short, it has every trait and habit required to tread water, including a lightweight body and complicated muscle coordination.
Why has nobody even proposed a step-by-step scenario by which these traits and habits could have evolved by any purely natural means? Even if they did, this type of imaginative evolutionary storytelling would be a poor substitute for science.
It is also worth noting that these lizards have absolutely no evolution seen in fossils. They are the same as their ancestral counterparts.
Source: ICR Institute For Creation Research
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