Joel Kontinen
In September 2017, during one of Okeanos Explorer’s recent expeditions in the central Pacific, its remotely operated vehicle (ROV) spotted and filmed an unusual creature at a depth of 3,148 meters (1.96 miles).
The creature, identified as a sea toad or coffinfish (Chaunacops), was bright red.
For evolutionists, beauty in places where practically no one can see it, is bound to be a huge mystery in a world that ought to be be indifferent to everything that looks like it was made by a superb artist.
Natural selection can hardly explain it, and it fares even worse for sexual selection.
Beauty in all kinds of places and creatures is exactly that what we would expect to find in a created world:
“He [God ]has made everything beautiful in its time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11, New International Version).
Recent NOAA expeditions have filmed many other deep-sea creatures that are astoundingly beautiful. (See, for instance, here, here, here and here.)
Source:
Mundy, Bruce. 2017. The Mysterious Identity of the Bright-Red Sea Toad. Okeanos Explorer, NOAA (12 September).
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