House of Truth Ministries
February and March 2020
House of Truth Ministries is about sharing the Gospel in various venues.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (ESV)
February and March 2020
House of Truth Ministries is about sharing the Gospel in various venues.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (ESV)
Please pray that we get accepted to the Fullerton Farmers Market when it opens. We applied to be at the market for the entire season. We have been at this venue in the past,
We are going to try some online witnessing through blogging during the shelter place. If you know of message boards we can join, please let us know. I will add a blog page this week to our website.
We are going to try some online witnessing through blogging during the shelter place. If you know of message boards we can join, please let us know. I will add a blog page this week to our website.
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL FEATURES IN CREATURES AND MAN MADE PRODUCTS
By Bruce Herdrich
By Bruce Herdrich
Introduction
Everywhere we look in nature we can find many very useful features of incredible ingenuity in the design of living beings that have been created by God. If we appreciate the uniqueness and usefulness of their functions, we can give glory to their creator, and point people to the God who made them. These details show how deeply the creator cares for His created beings, including those very people who need to know their creator and His love for them.
Everywhere we look in nature we can find many very useful features of incredible ingenuity in the design of living beings that have been created by God. If we appreciate the uniqueness and usefulness of their functions, we can give glory to their creator, and point people to the God who made them. These details show how deeply the creator cares for His created beings, including those very people who need to know their creator and His love for them.
Main Article
Think of all the things a mouth does for animals and especially for us, humans who rely on it for so many things. This multi-functional feature is one of numerous versatile elements designed into living creatures as ingenious designs. The challenges in designing equally effective man-made products from dental implants to aircraft landing gear show how marvelous are the mouths, beaks, feet, claws, and ears that are designed into living creatures.
The mouth enables us to breathe air in and out, inhaling and exhaling many times every minute that we are alive. We humans also have noses for breathing, but this is its secondary function to that of smelling, and its breathing capacity is less than that of the mouth. But the nose enables us to breathe while we are using our mouth for other things like eating.
Yes, humans have two orifices for breathing, the mouth and nose, working together or alternately, in conjunction with the lungs which process our breathing with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. This redundant design is not two attempts by “evolution” to evolve a respiratory system. Rather it is a brilliant back-up feature in an ingeniously designed system. Indeed, the nose itself has two nostrils working in parallel, and there are two lungs as well.
Just as the nose has more than one function, breathing and smelling, likewise the mouth has many functions. This is also an indication of an ingenious design which optimizes and maximizes the usefulness of a specific feature for the greatest benefit of the creature possessing it.
In addition to breathing, the mouth, together with the tongue, enables us to drink, eat, and taste food. We communicate with our mouth in many ways, such as groaning, laughing and speaking. We can whistle, hum or sing songs with our mouth to emote musical feelings. We frown or smile with our mouth and can visually express a myriad of varied emotions and thoughts with the many forms we can make with our mouth. We can also express love and affection with a kiss using our mouth.
Of course, the mouth is connected to other organs and systems in our body which enable it to do so many things. The trachea and bronchial tubes connect it to our lungs for breathing. The esophagus connects it to our stomach for eating and drinking, and the larynx connects it to our vocal cords for speaking and singing. These complex interconnections and coordinated functions are all hallmarks of ingenious design that make the mouth useful in so many ways.
Masterful multi-functional features may be found in various elements of many living beings. But this does not mean they all come about by random chance with no thoughtful effort. 1 The experience of thoughtful human engineers shows that it is not easy to design elements into an operational system, which have many multifunctional features that are useful to the system throughout its operation. Removing all thought, intentional planning, and intelligent insight from the development process never increases the possibility of a resulting useful product, even if the removal saves time and money during the product development phase.
Consider the landing gear of an aircraft which is necessary for taxi, take-off and landing, yet is useless throughout the aircraft’s flight as it is stowed in the belly, wasting space that could be used for more cargo. The landing gear is heavy and its weight causes an enormous penalty to aircraft performance, efficiency and the amount of payload it can carry. Aircraft designers are constantly looking to eliminate weight from the airframe, especially if a heavy item is not useful or necessary for the airplane during most of its time in operation. But they find it difficult to adapt the landing gear for in-flight uses, and it is equally difficult to eliminate the need for the landing gear, in order to save weight.
Maybe the landing gear could be replaced by airports having a “Trolley Sled” with wheels, waiting on its runway to receive the airplane as it makes a belly landing on it. The GPS navigation system could guide the plane precisely onto the sled which would scoot along with it after landing, to the end of the runway. 2
But a problem may occur when the sled’s brakes are applied to its wheels, as the plane might slide off the sled. Also, a hard landing by the plane onto the sled could damage its belly anywhere along its entire length. This is difficult to prevent even if the belly skin was thickened and strengthened, which would add a lot of weight to the plane, thus defeating the purpose of eliminating the landing gear.
Incredibly, the same designer who designed the mouth also designed a second use for a bird’s feet, whose primary use is similar to that of an aircraft’s landing gear. The Hummingbird’s feet, besides allowing it to land and perch, also helps it to expel its high body heat generated from its rapid beating of its wings. 3 This is similar to the design of an elephant’s ears which in addition to hearing, function as giant heat exchangers to control its body temperature.
The useful designs found in living creatures are so incredible, that they have inspired human designers to mimic them in the products they design. 4 Are not these multi-functional features in creatures, incredible testimony of them having been created by a highly intelligent designer with great fore thought and purpose?
Think of all the things a mouth does for animals and especially for us, humans who rely on it for so many things. This multi-functional feature is one of numerous versatile elements designed into living creatures as ingenious designs. The challenges in designing equally effective man-made products from dental implants to aircraft landing gear show how marvelous are the mouths, beaks, feet, claws, and ears that are designed into living creatures.
The mouth enables us to breathe air in and out, inhaling and exhaling many times every minute that we are alive. We humans also have noses for breathing, but this is its secondary function to that of smelling, and its breathing capacity is less than that of the mouth. But the nose enables us to breathe while we are using our mouth for other things like eating.
Yes, humans have two orifices for breathing, the mouth and nose, working together or alternately, in conjunction with the lungs which process our breathing with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. This redundant design is not two attempts by “evolution” to evolve a respiratory system. Rather it is a brilliant back-up feature in an ingeniously designed system. Indeed, the nose itself has two nostrils working in parallel, and there are two lungs as well.
Just as the nose has more than one function, breathing and smelling, likewise the mouth has many functions. This is also an indication of an ingenious design which optimizes and maximizes the usefulness of a specific feature for the greatest benefit of the creature possessing it.
In addition to breathing, the mouth, together with the tongue, enables us to drink, eat, and taste food. We communicate with our mouth in many ways, such as groaning, laughing and speaking. We can whistle, hum or sing songs with our mouth to emote musical feelings. We frown or smile with our mouth and can visually express a myriad of varied emotions and thoughts with the many forms we can make with our mouth. We can also express love and affection with a kiss using our mouth.
Of course, the mouth is connected to other organs and systems in our body which enable it to do so many things. The trachea and bronchial tubes connect it to our lungs for breathing. The esophagus connects it to our stomach for eating and drinking, and the larynx connects it to our vocal cords for speaking and singing. These complex interconnections and coordinated functions are all hallmarks of ingenious design that make the mouth useful in so many ways.
Masterful multi-functional features may be found in various elements of many living beings. But this does not mean they all come about by random chance with no thoughtful effort. 1 The experience of thoughtful human engineers shows that it is not easy to design elements into an operational system, which have many multifunctional features that are useful to the system throughout its operation. Removing all thought, intentional planning, and intelligent insight from the development process never increases the possibility of a resulting useful product, even if the removal saves time and money during the product development phase.
Consider the landing gear of an aircraft which is necessary for taxi, take-off and landing, yet is useless throughout the aircraft’s flight as it is stowed in the belly, wasting space that could be used for more cargo. The landing gear is heavy and its weight causes an enormous penalty to aircraft performance, efficiency and the amount of payload it can carry. Aircraft designers are constantly looking to eliminate weight from the airframe, especially if a heavy item is not useful or necessary for the airplane during most of its time in operation. But they find it difficult to adapt the landing gear for in-flight uses, and it is equally difficult to eliminate the need for the landing gear, in order to save weight.
Maybe the landing gear could be replaced by airports having a “Trolley Sled” with wheels, waiting on its runway to receive the airplane as it makes a belly landing on it. The GPS navigation system could guide the plane precisely onto the sled which would scoot along with it after landing, to the end of the runway. 2
But a problem may occur when the sled’s brakes are applied to its wheels, as the plane might slide off the sled. Also, a hard landing by the plane onto the sled could damage its belly anywhere along its entire length. This is difficult to prevent even if the belly skin was thickened and strengthened, which would add a lot of weight to the plane, thus defeating the purpose of eliminating the landing gear.
Incredibly, the same designer who designed the mouth also designed a second use for a bird’s feet, whose primary use is similar to that of an aircraft’s landing gear. The Hummingbird’s feet, besides allowing it to land and perch, also helps it to expel its high body heat generated from its rapid beating of its wings. 3 This is similar to the design of an elephant’s ears which in addition to hearing, function as giant heat exchangers to control its body temperature.
The useful designs found in living creatures are so incredible, that they have inspired human designers to mimic them in the products they design. 4 Are not these multi-functional features in creatures, incredible testimony of them having been created by a highly intelligent designer with great fore thought and purpose?
Bruce Herdrich has worked over 30 years in the aerospace industry as an engineer. He is one of the board members of House of Truth Ministries.
References
1. No one has ever seen a mutation mindlessly attach a “proto-mouth” to an animal whose parents had none, nor ever seen the environment thoughtlessly shape such a “proto-mouth” throughout subsequent generations into a complete mouth, with lips, gums, teeth, tongue and an articulating jaw.
The very first Galapagos Finch seen by humans, had a mouth (beak and tongue) identical to the mouths of many of today’s Galapagos Finches. Over the intermediate generations, some of these Finches’ beaks merely varied back and forth in their size and shape within a limited range.
2. The Phantom Eye test aircraft designed by Boeing, uses a separate Ground Cart for take-offs only. The plane still relies on its own small deployable landing gear for landing. The un-piloted plane and Cart operate from a very long runway in a flight test environment.
This is different from a commercial airport where ground crew and air traffic controllers would have to position a Cart on the runway for each landing of an aircraft without any landing gear, and remove it after each take-off, keeping it out of the way of other aircraft with landing gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtZCubRfIyU
A European research program, GABRIEL, is investigating a magnetic levitation controlled runway Sledge/ Cart which synchronizes its position and orientation with that of an approaching aircraft. When within reach, its Arms grab the Struts of the aircraft’s extended landing gear (with no wheels, tires or brakes), and brings it down onto its wheeled cart which is in the Sledge. After stopping at the end of the runway, the powered Cart rolls off the Sledge with the aircraft to taxi it to the terminal. This system does not eliminate the entire landing gear, but only its wheels, tires and brakes. It is challenging to develop and an expensive investment in airports’ infrastructures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPLWsVruCU
3. Thomas, B. Hummingbirds! Acts & Facts. 45 (4): 16.
4. Biomimicry Reference; Thomas, B. World's First Artificial DNA Molecule (Well, Almost) July 17, 2008
See http://www.icr.org/article/worlds-first-artificial-dna-molecule-well-almost
Reference;
http://www.icr.org/content/taf40
References
1. No one has ever seen a mutation mindlessly attach a “proto-mouth” to an animal whose parents had none, nor ever seen the environment thoughtlessly shape such a “proto-mouth” throughout subsequent generations into a complete mouth, with lips, gums, teeth, tongue and an articulating jaw.
The very first Galapagos Finch seen by humans, had a mouth (beak and tongue) identical to the mouths of many of today’s Galapagos Finches. Over the intermediate generations, some of these Finches’ beaks merely varied back and forth in their size and shape within a limited range.
2. The Phantom Eye test aircraft designed by Boeing, uses a separate Ground Cart for take-offs only. The plane still relies on its own small deployable landing gear for landing. The un-piloted plane and Cart operate from a very long runway in a flight test environment.
This is different from a commercial airport where ground crew and air traffic controllers would have to position a Cart on the runway for each landing of an aircraft without any landing gear, and remove it after each take-off, keeping it out of the way of other aircraft with landing gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtZCubRfIyU
A European research program, GABRIEL, is investigating a magnetic levitation controlled runway Sledge/ Cart which synchronizes its position and orientation with that of an approaching aircraft. When within reach, its Arms grab the Struts of the aircraft’s extended landing gear (with no wheels, tires or brakes), and brings it down onto its wheeled cart which is in the Sledge. After stopping at the end of the runway, the powered Cart rolls off the Sledge with the aircraft to taxi it to the terminal. This system does not eliminate the entire landing gear, but only its wheels, tires and brakes. It is challenging to develop and an expensive investment in airports’ infrastructures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPLWsVruCU
3. Thomas, B. Hummingbirds! Acts & Facts. 45 (4): 16.
4. Biomimicry Reference; Thomas, B. World's First Artificial DNA Molecule (Well, Almost) July 17, 2008
See http://www.icr.org/article/worlds-first-artificial-dna-molecule-well-almost
Reference;
http://www.icr.org/content/taf40
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