We whales are living superlatives. Did you realise that? I’d like to tell you about the wonderful capabilities and special characteristics which the Creator gave us, that you won’t find anywhere else in the animal kingdom. For instance, did you know:

• that there are whales that can eat while moving at a speed of 10 km/h, can travel long distances at 35 km/h, and – if they have to – can even get up to 65 km/h?
• that there are whales that carry out annual migrations of 10,000 km, just like certain migrating birds?
• that whales can compose music?
• that there are whales that can blow a spout of water 15 metres high, just by breathing out? that there are whales, that at 3000 metres, hold the deep-diving record?
• that certain whales can generate more than 850 kilowatts of power (your cars only have about onetenth as much)?
• that some whales have a lung volume of more than 3,000 litres? (You humans have a lung capacity of four, or at most seven, litres.)
• that there are whales that produce milk with a world record butter-fat content of 42 %? (Your mothers’ milk has a butter-fat content of 4.4%, about one-tenth of a whale’s value.)
• that certain whales have tongues so heavy that they weigh as much as two fully grown horses?
• that there are whales with aortas 50 centimetres in diameter, which is about the size of a water-main?

Why am I telling you all this? It’s really not that important to us to have a place in your Guinness Book of Records. We care about something more important: Have you ever noticed, when you read the creation accounts in Genesis, that we are the only animals that are actually mentioned by name? “And God created great whales and all kinds of animals that live and move in the deeps, each according to its kind” (Genesis 1:21).

How come? Is it because God went to great lengths to create us? Did He take special pleasure in us? Granted, we can’t figure out His deeper motives. But just think! We found special significance as a hidden testimony to the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

When the critics of the Lord Jesus once demanded a sign from Him, He pointed to the story of Jonah: “Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish (Greek: cetos not ichthys, the word usually used for fish), so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the belly of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). In that way, the Lord Jesus pointed to His own resurrection. Have you ever considered what kind of sea animal has a stomach big enough to hold a human being? If you check, you’ll find that only our species fits the bill. Since we have been so honoured in the order of creation, we consider ourselves witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus, and more than that, to the grace of God. Let me give you some more details about our life, and some amazing facts about our species, so that you can draw your own conclusions.

Your scientists did not catalogue us according to the variations in our size, life-styles, methods of capturing food, or our habitat in the ocean. Rather, they have concentrated on the variations in our teeth, and categorised us into two different groups (zoological suborders): Mystacocete (baleen whales) and Odontocete (toothed whales). Baleen whales may be grouped into three distinct families: Right whales (Greenland right whale, northern right whale, North Pacific right whale, southern right whale, pygmy right whale), grey whales and rorquals (blue whale, dwarf blue whale, fin whale, Bryde’s whale, humpback whale). The sub-species of toothed whales is formed by the families sperm whale, beaked (black whale, northern bottlenose), white whales, porpoises and dolphins.

Our habitat is the ocean, but remember, whales are flesh mammals, not fish! We give birth to our young. It is true that the Ree Barsch does this too, but naturally, there is not a single fish that can nurse its young. Even though we live exclusively in the sea, we are actually mammals, and so we also breathe through our lungs. We keep our body temperature fixed at 36.5 degrees Centigrade – regardless of whether we are in the icy waters of Antarctica, or in the warm waters of Bermuda. As you can imagine, these conditions cause a whole group of special problems, but the Creator solved these problems for us in a wonderful way.

Our Birth and Infancy

We whales have the same partner throughout our lifetime. Our infants are born and bred in the water. A mature female gives birth to one offspring about every two years. Pregnancy does not last as long as you might imagine for an animal of our size: only 10 to 12 months. I’m a Sperm Whale – I actually have a pregnancy of 16 months. Compared with the rhinoceros (18 months) and the elephant (22 months), we are quick. When the time for the birth approaches, we look for a place that is secure from storms. Our most important nurseries are the lagoons of Baja California for the grey whale, the Sea of Cortez for the blue whale, the coasts of the Hawaiian Island of Maui or certain islands of the Bahamas for the humpback whale, and the area around the Azores, the Galapagos islands or Sri Lanka for me. Seals go on the land to give birth to their young, but we do it all in the water. Just imagine what it would be like if our babies were born head-first: if the birth took any time at all, they would be forced to take their first breath while their head was still under water, and they would drown. But our Creator had thought this all out, and He arranged things for us differently than for any other mammal: All whales are born in the breech position, i.e., the baby whale appears tail-first. In this way, the infant remains connected to its life support system (its mother’s umbilical cord) for as long as possible. There aren’t any sheltering caves or other places of refuge for the new-born to be hidden in. So this security is provided by the helpful care of the other members of the group, as well as by the loving attention of the mother. Even as babies, we can’t be overlooked. The infant blue whale is 8 metres long at birth, and weighs 8 tons. That’s 2000 kg more than an adult elephant weighs. And to come up to its length at birth, at least 3 elephants would have to be lined up in a row. Other whale babies aren’t that much smaller than the blue whale:

• Greenland whale: 6 metres, 6 tons.
• Northern right whale: 5 metres, 5 tons.
• Humpback whale: 4.5 metres, 2.5 tons.
• Grey whale: 4.5 metres, 1.5 tons.

Nursing under water has its problems, too. So the Creator provided wonderful equipment for us. The mother squirts her milk directly from her teat into the mouth of her infant. This takes place with such pressure that it would cause a milk fountain on the surface two metres high. The breast lies in a pocketshaped fold, so that it doesn’t disturb her streamlining. The whale baby has to grow fast, in order to be strong enough for the rapidly approaching return migration into the polar waters. The milk it drinks is the most nutritious milk that exists; it has 42 % butter- fat content, and 12 % protein (compared with human milk: 4.4% butter-fat, and 1% protein). It is very thick and creamy. This calorie bomb, which is 100 times as nutritious as an adult human would require, causes the baby whale to grow at a breath-taking rate. While a human infant takes 180 days to double its birth weight, a whale baby takes a lot less time. During the 7 months before it is weaned, a baby blue whale drinks 90 kg of milk daily. Every 24 hours it grows from three to four centimetres, and increases in weight by about 80 kg. That makes 3.3 kg per hour! Some 18 to 19 tons of this extremely dense milk cause the baby whale to grow 17 tons during the entire time it is nursing. Isn’t that a sensational degree of efficiency?

Oh, there goes my relative, the blue whale. He’ll be only too glad to tell you more about himself. If you like the unusual, you’ll want to pay special attention to him.

The Blue Whale –
Giant of the Animal Kingdom

I am the largest of all 80 types of whale. My body weight is many times more than that of the largest dinosaurs. In fact, I am the largest animal that has ever existed on earth. To match my weight, you would have to bring together a herd of 28 elephants, or 170 oxen. If you wanted to match my weight with human beings, you would need 2,000 people. If you wanted to compare me with the smallest animal – Suvi’s pygmy shrew – I weigh 70 million times more than he does! I can even dazzle you with my length. At 33 metres long, I am the longest creature of all. I would easily be longer than a column of 4 buses. If you like details, I can give you a few. My skeleton weighs 22 tons, and my body-fat 25 tons. In addition, my flesh weighs 50 tons. My tongue alone is as heavy as an elephant. My heart is 1.2 metres in diameter, and weighs as much as a horse. It pumps a grand total of 10,000 litres of blood through my sys27 tem. My aorta is a tube with a diameter of more than 50 centimetres. My liver weighs a ton, and my stomach can hold the same weight in food. My kidney is approximately the same weight as an ox.

But you think I’m just a shapeless mountain of meat and fat? Don’t jump to conclusions! I can effortlessly dive to a depth of 200 metres, and it’s no problem for me to keep my course even in strong currents. If I swim on the surface, I can move at a speed of 28 km/ h. To do that, I have to generate 1,175 horsepower, which, in turn, requires 20,000 litres of oxygen per minute. But if I swim at the same speed under water, it only takes me 168 horsepower, and that means only 3,000 litres of oxygen. My lungs hold a volume of 3,000 litres; that’s enough air to fill 750 balloons.

Fluke High Performance Engine: You might well be fascinated with my gigantic whale-tail, which is known as the fluke. In contrast to those of fish, whose tails are vertical, ours are horizontal. Your evolutionist scientists have suggested that my tail is a regressive development of the hind legs of our supposed landdwelling ancestors. But the real reason is different: The Creator designed our tail to be horizontal, because in terms of fluid dynamics it is much more practical for us with our constant diving and surfacing, than a vertical tail could ever be. If I want to surface, I just drive my fluke downwards. If I want to dive, I force it the other way. The fluke forms a surface of 10 square metres. It has been made in a most complicated way, so that it can fulfil its purpose without any problems. I use my fluke to propel myself, but I also use it to stabilise and steer myself. To propel myself, I drive my fluke in a sort of turning motion, the axis of which would form an extension of my spine. It’s true that I can’t move it in a full circle like a ship’s screw, but I always turn it to the same extent in one direction, and then in the other. But the working principle is pretty much the same. In my world-wide migrations, I easily maintain a long-term speed of 35 km/h. Sometimes, I accelerate my gigantic body to a speed of 50 km/h. Our body shape and skin are so formed that we are able to propel ourselves with the highest possible degree of efficiency. If your fluid dynamics engineers could make a model of our body, and equip it with the same power engine that our bodies possess, we would still swim significantly faster than their model. The Creator provided us with a special skin, which helps us to save energy. It enables us to reduce turbulence in the water streaming over our bodies, and transform it into laminar flow with reduced resistance. This occurs, among other things, through the extra smoothness of our skin. This captures a portion of the turbulent energy of the water, and achieves a damping effect of the vortices near the surface of our skin over our entire body.

Doesn’t the Creator perfect some new miracle in each one of our species? Each one of us originates in just as microscopically small an egg as that of a mouse, or of a human.

After reporting on the blue whale, I’d now like to introduce:

The Sperm Whale –
Record holder in deepsea diving

Deep dives of 350 metres and more are no problem for bottlenose dolphins and rorquals. The beaked whale can dive to a depth of 500 metres, and the weddell seal can even reach 600 metres. Have you noticed how we whales are all clearly different from one another? With a length of 20 metres, and a weight of 55,000 kg, I am the largest representative of the toothed whales. I only have teeth in my lower jaw; in my upper jaw, there are about 40 holes. The teeth in my lower jaw are about 20 cm long, barrel shaped, and exactly the same size. They fit exactly into the holes in my upper jaw.

But my most important trait is my ability to dive to extreme depths. Thousand metre dives are no problem for me. Sometimes, I even dive to a depth of 3,000 metres. What is wrong? Oh, you’re trying to work it all out! Don’t you trust your results? It’s really true! With every ten metres of increased depth that I dive, there is an additional pressure on my body of one atmosphere. Since I dive at a vertical speed of 7 to 8 km/h, I even have to cope with an extra pressure of more than one atmosphere in my own body – from head to tail, I am 15 metres long. At 1,000 metres, the pressure climbs to 101 atmospheres. That amounts to 101 kg of pressure on every square centimetre of my body. That’s the same as if you had to bear the weight of a heavy-weight boxer on your fingernail. But you’re wondering about something else – How do I deal with diver’s disease – “the bends”? ¹ Don’t worry; there’s no danger. My master builder figured out all these details, and equipped me accordingly. I’d like to tell you about it: 

 You probably think that the deep-diving whales (sperm whale, the northern bottle-nose whale, the rorquals), who can effortlessly spend an hour and a half under water, must have enormous lungs. But, in fact, the opposite is true. Compared with our body size, we have remarkably small lungs. Humans have a lung volume about 1.76% of body size. Elephants’ lungs are 2.55% of body volume. But our corresponding values are much smaller: for me, 0.91%, blue whale 0.73%, northern right whales, 0.65 %. We however, by means of a whole array of mechanisms, utilise our lung capacity much more intensively than land mammals do. For instance, we have substantially more small air chambers. Our blood has 50% higher level of haemoglobin than human blood. Thus we have a much higher capability to transport oxygen. You utilise only 10 to 20 % of your breathed air for energy, but we utilise between 80 and 90%. You see, when we take a breath, it is as effective as if you were to breathe eight times.

And we can prepare for diving differently from any other mammal. Part of that preparation comes from a special capability that the Creator gave us, which enables our muscles to store oxygen in a unique way. Behind that capability are unique organic construc- tion methods and special physiological equipment. Now you can just imagine how I prepare myself for a deep dive. Without haste or stress, I go through a ten-minute long breathing phase, and fill all my oxygen storage capacity. It is easy to remember: for every minute of diving, I prepare myself with one breath. If I take 60 breaths, I can spend about three quarters of an hour at 1000 metres depth. It takes me about 15 minutes to descend and ascend, which easily leaves me 45 minutes at depth.

 There is another important difference you should know about: when you dive, 34 % of your oxygen comes from your lungs, 41 % from your blood, and 25 % from your muscles and tissues. For us, it is fundamentally different: only 9% comes from our lungs, 41 % from our blood, leaving 50 % from muscles and tissues. Underwater, therefore, our lungs only play a subordinate role.

Now you probably ask: how do our lungs respond if they are exposed to such crushing pressures? Don’t our lungs just fall in on themselves like a wet sack and collapse? In all land mammals, it is only the windpipe and the large bronchial tubes that are equipped with supporting rings, so that they are able to remain open while inhaling. You have seen this kind of reinforcement on the suction hose of your vacuum cleaner. But for whales, the Creator provided this kind of reinforcement into the smallest branches of the bronchial tree. In this way, our air passages simply cannot be collapsed. In addition, this construction allows for quick ventilation of our lungs.

In order to give us the longest possible diving time, the Creator also gave us an incomparable energy conservation programme. During a dive, our heart beats only half as rapidly as it does on the surface. Nonessential regions or parts of our body can be more or less shut off from the circulation system. The blood stream is redirected and regulated by a system of vein closure muscles. The whole thing works somewhat like a network of one-way streets. During the diving phase, only important organs, such as the brain, the heart, and the tail structure, are provided with oxygen. An essential part of our diving technique is the so-called miracle network (rete mirabile), which the Creator built into only us whales. Your scientists have not yet figured out all of its complex functions. But the miracle network plays a central role in oxygen management and pressure equalisation.

What’s this masterful diving equipment for? Why do I dive to the bottom, where there’s no sunshine – into the eternal night and the darkest depths? Some people say that I am the all-time champion when it comes to eating – that I’ll eat anything. But to be honest, squid are my favourite dish, and they are only to be found at great depths. I eat small squid by the thousands. Your whalers once counted 28,000 of them in the stomach of one of our dead colleagues. I even eat the larger squid by the dozen. To tell the truth, the ocean floor is the only place you can find the greatest delicacy of all: giant octopus. There are lots of tall tales about these animals, which can be as big as 8 metres, with tentacles as long as 15 metres. I have eaten whoppers like that whole. But usually there is a real “battle of the giants” before he lands up in my stomach. With my fine locating system, I can find my prey without fail. I send out little clicks, and listen for the echoes. Despite the deepest darkness, my sonar system gives me precise information about the number and size of my prey.

Our Nose –
Not on the Face, but On Top of the Head

In contrast with all land mammals, our noses are not fixed in the middle of the face, but on the upper surface of the head. The Creator did it this way so that when we are swimming horizontally, our noses are on the highest part of our bodies. Our nose is actually more than a kind of snorkel that we use for inhaling oxygen. If we are not breathing, we hold our nose closed with a massive sphincter muscle. This, together with an elongated windpipe in the shape of a goose-neck, keeps water from coming through our breathing passages into our lungs. In contrast to every other kind of mammal, including humans, we have no opening between the nasal opening and the oral cavity. This means that under water, we can stretch our mouth wide open without getting water in the air passages. Our nose is formed in a very complicated way, and just imagine that every kind of whale has its own nasal design. While the baleen whales have two nasal openings, the toothed whales have only one. You can tell by our spout whether it’s a baleen or a toothed whale. The spout is either divided into two streams, or only a cloud can be identified. In your children’s books, we are often portrayed with a beautiful fountain streaming from the top of our heads. That gives you a false impression, because our noses are not fire-hoses, but breathing organs. What you see when we blow is condensed water vapour, something like when you breathe out into frosty air. When we exhale, the gases are expelled through a small opening with considerable force. This generates a strong pressure increase in the air and when it hits the free outer air, our breath expands (you remember from physics: the more a gas expands, the more it cools). This causes the water vapour to condense into droplets. The cloud of water vapour is just as visible in the tropics as it is in waters with icebergs. And the spout is different for each kind of whale. For right whales it is 3 to 4 metres high, for fin whales 4 to 6, for blue whales 6, and for me 5 to 8 metres high. Rorqual whales form a pear-shaped spout. I blow at an angle to the front. You’d be quite right in saying, ‘Each to his own’!

Our Ear – A Stereo-Seismograph

For a long time your scientists thought we were deaf. Even though anatomists found hints of a complicated inner ear and highly specialised auditory nerves, these prejudices remained. The rule seemed to be: under water there is nothing to say, so there isn’t anything to hear, either. It was said that our ears were just rudimentary left-overs from some hypothetical evolutionary ancestry. Fortunately, in the last few years, your researchers have carried out a lot of experiments, and have completely changed their minds, at least on this. Some have now even suggested that we must be descended from cows, since we have multiple stomachs. But don’t let yourself be fooled by evolution theories. Just like you, we are one of God’s brilliant ideas. That’s why it is so important for me to tell you everything about us in such detail. But let me get on with it, and tell you about how our ears are constructed.

Even the best transmitting facilities for both sonar signals and our tuneful songs – the Humpback whale will tell you about these melodious concerts in a moment – won’t produce a masterpiece of communication or pinpoint targeting, if the reception facilities aren’t just as good. Our ear forms this receiver and it exhibits special details that no other mammal boasts of. Many land animals have gigantic spoon or funnel shaped ears, so that they can receive sounds from various directions. But such protruding external ear muscles are a problem in the water as they would ruin our perfectly streamlined form. Any one of your divers can tell you that directional hearing under water is exceptionally difficult. For example, a diver can barely tell from which direction a motorboat is approaching. On land, your brain computes the direction of a sound by comparing the minute differences between the time a sound is received by nerves in one of your ears, and the other. But this doesn’t work in the water, because the sound penetrates your skull pretty much unhindered. Since your ears are attached to your skull, the vibrations arrive at the ear at virtually the same time, and the differences between the time of reception for different directions is hardly discernable.

But the Creator gave us an ingenious system which has no equal in the animal kingdom. It provides us with excellent stereo reception, even under water. We have a “hightech” hi-fi system which is free of interference for directional hearing. One noticeable thing about our ear is that it is separated from the bony structure of the skull. The ear ’s bones are only fastened to the skull by membranes, so they are free to move independently, and sound waves received by the bony structure of the skull are not passed on to the ear. The entire system is reminiscent of a sensitive seismograph, the instrument your geologists use to measure earthquakes. The minute bones of the inner ear: hammer, anvil, and stirrup, have a completely different form with us. Toothed whales use very high frequencies for echo-locating. An eardrum wouldn’t work effectively at such high frequencies. That’s why some whales have no eardrum at all, and with the others their eardrum is completely different from that of the human ear. Baleen whales don’t need echo-location gear at all, so they communicate in very low frequency ranges (50 Hz or less). Such low frequencies have the advantage that they transmit for long distances in water. So two whales can communicate clearly over distances of up to 100 km. That would be the same as two people trying to hold a conversation between Washington and Baltimore (or London and Oxford), without using a telephone. I know what you’re thinking. You want to know what kind of messages we transmit on these frequencies that the Creator allocated for us. I’ll let the humpback whale talk about that, since he has composed a number of concert pieces in his time.

The Humpback Whale –
Master Singer of the Oceans

Composing and Performing without Piano or Music: Unlike fish, we happen to be gifted with wonderful voices. With the exception of your talented musicians and birds, we are the only creatures on earth whom God has gifted musically. Our songs don’t just vary a certain fixed melody. They are just as varied as the pieces of Beethoven or the Beatles. Our music consists of recurring phrases. When we compose, we obey more than a dozen rules of composition. Each year we release a new “hit”. In the expanses of the ocean, we can effortlessly make ourselves heard over distances of up to 100 km. Since our songs are the most interesting and moving sounds to be heard in the seas, US researchers have recorded them in stereo with underwater microphones. A selection of our songs has even been released by a music firm on an LP. We humpback whales are also known for our exceptional hunting methods.

Clever Fishing: We use a very refined method. We swim in rising spirals around a swarm of krill, and expel a precisely measured stream of air through the nose. This forms a curtain of tiny air bubbles which act as a net. The tiny organisms flee from the air screen and gather in the centre of the cylinder. The circle of air bubbles scarcely reaches the surface of the water, before I swoop up through the centre of it with my jaws wide open. With my giant mouth, nothing gets away. Before I swallow, the excess water pours out the sides of my mouth through the baleen. My prey remains stuck in the mesh of this great filtering apparatus. In this way, I filter my nourishment from the sea, in hundred pound batches.

Baleen – The Gigantic Krill Sieve: All the other baleen whales have similar fish traps. We are the only creature in the entire animal kingdom that has anything like a baleen. Our baleen consists of 270 to 400 plates with a flat triangular cross-section. These are arrayed in the upper jaw and are made of a horn-like material. The lower edge is as fine as a bird’s feather. The right whales have an especially large baleen array. Their heads comprise 30 % of their total body length. Driving this mammoth fish net through the seas, right whales extract their nourishment from the water like skimming cream from milk. The 350 or so baleens of the Greenland right whale are as long as 4.5 metres. A whale is able to harvest about a ton of krill from 10,000 cubic metres of ocean water.

Now I must introduce you to another relative, who wins the gold medal in any swimming marathon. Read for yourself what motivates him to these longdistance achievements.

Grey Whale –
the “Migrating Birds” of the Oceans

We grey whales hold the absolute long distance record for all mammals – and we do it by swimming. We do the same thing the migrating birds do, an annual 10,000 km journey from the northern Arctic Ocean, through the Bering Straits, to the Aleutians, down the Pacific Coast of America, till we reach the Mexican peninsula of Baja California. Precisely at Christmas time we reach the Californian city of San Diego. We don’t fly in “V” formation like the Golden Plover, but as a group of 40 or so animals, we form an impressive Grey Whale Armada, that navigates unerringly 185 kilometres per day to our goal.

Why is it that we take such a long journey, travelling 20,000 km counting the return trip? Just think, that’s half the length of the equator, or as far as you would drive your car in a year, if you were driving a lot! You think we travel down south because there’s more food there at that time of year? No, not at all. Actually, the opposite is the case. We can hardly find anything edible there. As a matter of fact, we end up eating next to nothing for a period of six months. The only reason we go through all this is for the sake of our children. Our babies are born at the end of January, and we have to be in the quiet lagoons at San Ignacio on the coast of Baja California. Now you understand why almost all of us grey whales have the same birthday. Even though our babies are 4.5 metres long at birth, and weigh 1.5 tons, they have almost no fat layer at all, nothing to protect them against the cold of the northern Arctic waters. Our young drink 200 litres of milk and gain 20 kg per day. Our babies drink this extremely nutritious milk for eight long months. For two months, our children are trained in the Baja nursery to be capable long-distance swimmers, so that they are fit enough to make the long return trip to the far north. This all takes place while the mother is fasting. Even the fathers come along, and fast, during this long trip. We need them along, for one thing, because they protect us from the attacks of Killer whales. The other reason is that, it’s there in the Gulf of California that we have our short mating season. When we return to the arctic, you can understand that we have nothing on our minds but food. When we get back, we feast on krill by the ton, and once again build up a thick layer of fat. This “blubber” layer can be more than a foot thick. We need this blubber not just for insulation from the cold, but also as an energy reserve, during our next long foodless trip south.

Did We Whales Evolve,
or Were We Especially Created?

Many of your scientists believe that we are former land animals, that returned to the water. But if you have paid attention, you have seen that we are formed in such extraordinary ways, and have such special capabilities, that no land animal is remotely like us.

Just think about

• our birth in the breech position
• our nursing procedure under water
• our special organs for deep diving
• our ability to compose music
• our ear construction
• our special nose
• our filter apparatus
• our long foodless migration

Evolution for us is impossible. A half-baked diving apparatus wouldn’t do us any good at all. Unless I had a complete filtration system, I would starve to death. If I were born head first, rather than tail first, there simply wouldn’t be any whales. As far as I’m concerned – and I truly believe it – I have a great and ingenious Creator who masterfully made me: “Oh Lord, my God, great are your wonders and your thoughts!” (Psalm 40:6). I explained earlier that we are a sign of the resurrection of Christ. Now I’d like to tell you that we are also related to the Lord Jesus in a completely different way. Just read the beginning of the Gospel of John:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:1-3).

If absolutely nothing is excepted from the creative work of Jesus, then we whales aren’t excepted either. Jesus Christ is not just your Creator, but ours as well.