Cheri Fields
I spent three amazing years of my childhood near the mountains and streams of Anchorage, Alaska. Every late summer, the fishermen left behind jobs, families, and (often) churches to join the grizzlies in their annual salmon harvest. Even though we didn’t fish ourselves, my family would travel past streams nearly choked with red-tinted salmon, spending their dying moments making sure they left behind a new generation to swim to the ocean in the months to come. It was both sad and hopeful at the same time to watch their striking color in the clear water below us.
Since their own parents were gone before they were hatched, how do those salmon know where a good spawning location is? By returning to the precise waters in which they had successfully started their own lives. So far, so good. But how do they know which stream to travel to when they have spent most of their lives far away in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean?
That’s where this video from Illustra Media picks the story up. While they leave the when and how questions to others, this video makes it clear that it took an intelligent “someone” to bring life into the complexity we see today. As biblical creationists, we can take this obvious reality much further:
God is the one who created these fish and gave them the skills they would need to return to a location most likely to allow their progeny to thrive for generations to come. He deserves all the credit for their mysterious and wonderful design!
