Inventors are looking to God's creation to improve their products.
Inventors turn to God's creation for ideas
Paint makers in Germany have produced a house-paint called Lotusan that cleans itself — because it uses the self-cleaning secrets of the white lotus flower. The white lotus grows in swamps, but is regarded as a symbol of purity because it remains so white.
Jim Robbins reported in The New York Times (December 11, 2001) that the white lotus's secret is that its leaves have tiny points on their surface, like a bed of nails. When a speck of dirt falls on a leaf, it is held very lightly on those points. Water that rolls across the points picks up the teetering dirt and washes it away.
Lotusan paint uses a similar rough surface to keep itself clean, but God had invented the idea first.
Creator's amazing ideas
Hypodermic needles are modeled after snakes' fangs. And Velcro was based on the same principle as burs that stick to your clothes when you walk through a field. Again, God invented the idea first.
Engineers from water treatment plants are studying mangrove trees that turn salt water to fresh water. Manufacturers of hearing-aids have found a parasitic fly with amazing hearing abilities that may lead to better hearing-aids. Mussels that stick to ships and piers are providing ideas for a new water-resistent glue. God invented all these ideas first.
Wherever you look in nature you find clear evidence of the Creator's extraordinary intelligence and design. Very knowledgeable and highly paid scientists and inventors are looking to nature because to improve their products.
Just as the glues and the hearing-aids and the Lotusan paint and the rest could not appear without intelligent input, to say that their even more intricate “natural” models evolved — without any intelligent input — is surely one of the most surprising errors anyone could make.
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