THE BEAUTY OF THE OCTOPUS

The wonders of design are so ubiquitous, universal, and pan-organismal, that the denial of a Designer is rationally unwarranted. Bruce Malone, founder of Search for the Truth, has offered the octopus as one limited example of this:

·       The octopus has three distinct layers in its skin, and each layer contains remarkable tiny elastic sacs of red, yellow, and blue coloring.  When threatened, the octopus can make each sac 60 times larger than its original size.  An adult octopus can have as many as two million of these tiny spots of color spread over its entire body.  By shrinking some sacs and stretching others, an octopus can change color almost instantly.  When frightened, all of the sacs shrink, making the octopus white.  When angry, only the red sacs open, turning its whole body red.  When hiding in the green seaweed, it can mix blue and yellow to produce green.  When crawling on a gravel ocean floor, it turns to a salt-and-pepper color.  It can even make stripes and polka dots when resting on patterned backgrounds. 

Atheists have warned us that such appearances of design can be very deceiving, but perhaps the denial of these appearances is the grand deception. If something looks as if it has been designed, perhaps it has been. Can you identity one organism or body structure that doesn’t have the appearance of design? Well, what does this suggest? Honestly!