There are lots of different kinds of fish in the sea. Many of them are weird and wonderful. The seahorse is one example. This comical looking fish swims upright, and when it wants to rest, it anchors itself to seaweed with its tail. But the strangest thing about seahorses is that the male acts as mother. When the female lays her eggs, she sends them into a pouch on her mate's belly. There the young seahorses hatch, and are fed by a special liquid produced from the lining of the pouch. After about two weeks the pregnant male gives birth, and a swarm of miniature seahorses pops out into the ocean. They then swim away to look after themselves. Evolution simply can't explain how seahorses came to live like this, with the father swapping jobs with the mother, or how the female learned to lay the eggs in her mate's pouch. Neither can it explain how the male got his special pouch and the ability to produce the liquid to feed the growing babies. Seahorses must have been created the way they are by God in the beginning, when He said
'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life'
(Genesis 1: 20)

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