During a post-Easter vacation (not in Mexico!), Jan and I went to an aquarium on a rainy day. The first fish tank we encountered had a flounder in it. I could barely see it because it was lying flat like a hand palm-down on the bottom and it had also camouflaged itself to match the sand. Upon closer examination, I was able to make out the fish lightly covered with sand. But the thing that really caught me off-guard was that this fish had two eyes on one side of his body.
An aquarium volunteer approached me and asked if I saw the flounder. He smirked. I said, “barely.” He then asked if I read the little sign explaining how both flounder eyes end up on one side of the body. I hadn’t, but am I ever glad I did.
The flounder is born like most other fish, with two eyes – one on each side of the body. However, within a week or two, the fish begins to lean to the right or left (depending on genetic code), and as the final direction of the permanent lean becomes clear, the eye that would have ended up on the bottom side of the fish, begins to move to the “up-side.” Yes, I said, “moves” to the other side. And miraculously, this move takes place within a matter of weeks. (Not billions and billions of years!) There is also some skeletal modification that takes place, as well as an adjustment to the mouth of the fish. All of this is done to enable a fish born in a “vertical” posture to shift to a “horizontal” position.
I mused about the possibility of the members of the Trinity becoming tired of making so many “vertical-functioning” fish and agreeing that it might be fun to make one that no one would be able to explain! Start it out vertically and then shift into horizontal in a matter of weeks!
As Jan and I stood there looking at a fish lying flat on the bottom of an aquarium with two eyes on the same side of it’s head, I experienced a “God Moment!” How did this happen? Only one explanation – God did it!
