Have you ever heard of Gecko tape? It is a man-made attempt at mimicking the adhesive power of a gecko’s foot.

The gecko is a small lizard best known for being able to grip to most anything and sell insurance! Finally, about the year 2000, scientists were able to unravel the mystery of how a gecko can walk up walls, across ceilings, even cling to a wall in a vacuum from one toe! Their feet secrete no substance. Friction or suction were also ruled out. Then a closer look at its feet revealed a network of tiny hairs and pads. These produce electrical attractions that literally glue the animals down. With millions of the hairs on each foot, the combined attraction of the weak electrical forces (van der Waals forces) allow the gecko to stick to virtually any surface - even polished glass. Close-up pictures reveal about two million densely packed, fine hairs, or “setae”, on each toe. The end of each seta is further subdivided into hundreds to thousands of structures called spatulae. This gives it a sticking power 400 times its body weight! The man-made gecko tape is able to simulate this mechanism with 1/3 of the holding power. However the adhesive looses its strength after about five uses. This is because, unlike the gecko’s foot, it attracts water molecules. The gecko has another advantage: its feet are self-cleaning. More study needs to be done. If its ability to stick can be duplicated, “such adhesives might even prove useful in rock climbing or for making geckolike Mars rovers.”
In summary, after years of study, scientists have finally understood what the gecko did for millennia, stick to surfaces without being sticky. Now they are copying this lizard’s skills to make better adhesives. Does this not shout, “Design!” to anyone listening? If it is the result of accidents, why not also wait for the superior adhesive to evolve? Again, reverse engineering (using creation to develop technology) quietly admits the creation model is true. God did it best and He alone deserves the glory!