Wherever we look, we observe the marvels of this universe.
Bruce Malone just reported on the marvel of the communication of bees:
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Animals communicate with each other using a wide
variety of methods. It has long been recognized that bees use an intricate
dance that conveys the direction and distance to food sources. It has recently
been discovered that bees also communicate using scents. Beehives are full of
scents, yet honeybees are constantly alert to bees who are not members of the
hive. Invaders to a hive are killed if they do not have exactly the same scent
as the rest of the hive.
Entomologists (scientists that
study insects) have discovered that all members of an individual hive learn to
produce exactly the same chemical password…Bees from each hive can instantly
tell whether a bee carries that hive’s specific chemical password. When bees
start a new hive, they develop a new distinctive chemical password! (Search
for the Truth; truth@searchforthetruth.net
This phenomenon highlights the principle of Irreducible
Complexity (IC). Against Darwinian evolution, which argues that evolution must
occur gradually – each mutation conferring a survival advantage – IC argues
that many changes or structures must already be in place before any survival
advantage can be realized.
The bees not only need to generate their hive-specific
scents, they must also be able to distinguish among the scents, recognize those
who do not carry their hive scent, recognize their threat to the hive, and then
take the appropriate action against the
invaders, even to change their group scent in unison when the need arises. To
merely generate this consistent common scent is not enough. For this to confer
a survival advantage for the hive, these many other features must also be in
place.
With good reason, some argue that every adaptive structure
is IC. This argues strongly in favor of the Design Hypothesis and against the
theory of evolution.
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