PERHAPS EVERY BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM IS A MARVEL OF ID

 The Bombardier Beetle is a design marvel. They also clearly defy any Darwinian explanation.

·       The bombardier beetle’s tail end is equipped with twin “spray nozzles” (or gland openings) to shoot its gaseous ammunition. The gas comes from two reactant chemicals—hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone. When the beetle contracts its sphincter muscle, these two chemicals mix with catalytic enzymes. The ensuing chemical reaction brings the temperature up to water’s boiling point. While the one-way valve closes to protect the beetle’s organs, out fires the mixture of gas and steam at 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100°C). Some types of bombardier beetles can swivel their gland openings and shoot in nearly all directions using deflection plates. All types hit their target with a marksman’s precision.

·       The emissions fire in pulsation, 500 times per second, but the defensive attack is complete before one second passes. https://answersingenesis.org/creepy-crawlies/insects/bombardier-beetle-arsenal-insect/

   

They have a perception system, ejection system with “spray nozzles,” explosive chemicals, and also an anti-inhibitor to neutralize the inhibitor, which keeps these chemicals from exploding, until just the right time:

·       In a separate compartment, an anti-inhibitor waits for the right moment to neutralize the inhibitor. So at the exact moment the beetle wants to fire at an enemy, the anti-inhibitor is squirted through a tube to unite with the other two chemicals, which are squirted through their separate tube. This anti-inhibitor neutralizes the inhibitor so that the two chemicals are free to react violently together and explode. (Erwin Lutzer, Seven Reasons you can Trust the Bible, 136)

Timing is everything:

·       Added to this is the need for a complex communication system so that the anti-inhibitor is ejected at just the right time! (137)

If the timing is off, the beetle will explode or the chemical will spray without effect. These various systems must be precisely fine-tuned to operate harmoniously. Besides, they all have to be in place simultaneously, or the beetle will not survive. There is no room for trial-and-error.

Darwinian gradualism cannot satisfactorily account for the necessity of various precisely functioning systems to be simultaneously in place. Therefore, Answers in Genesis wrote that if this complex defensive system had been constructed piecemeal, the beetle wouldn’t have survived:

·       From the evolutionary worldview, the functionless machinery would have been selected against, since it would add no survival value until all of the necessary components were in place.

Therefore, the most logical conclusion is that this apparatus had been designed as is. In fact, the design is so brilliant that:

  

·       By examining the design of the bombardier beetle’s defense spray mechanism, scientists have built a similar nozzle to improve fuel, medical, and agricultural technology. (Answers)

This is not surprising. Every organ and perceptual system is a marvel, which presents our scientists with valuable lessons. How unbelievable that random mutations, of which the vast majority are deleterious, might instruct science in how to make technological advancements!