Bees provide example of God's intelligent design

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Another look at intelligent design vs. evolution: In God's book, the Bible, he says we can know him by his creation. At least 80 percent of scientists now believe in intelligent design, and some don't even know the designer.

As one example, consider the honeybee. With observation hives, Karl Von Frish discovered bee communication.

One bee tells every other bee by different dances in the hive. A round dance is for a nectar source within 75 yards. Beyond 75 yards, she uses a wiggle-tail dance.

Different parts of this dance show exactly where and the quantity of the source. The guide is the infrared rays of the sun.

The bees' hexagonal comb is the best engineering design for strength and storage.

To survive the winter inside the hive, the bees form a ball with the queen in the center; and inside this ball of insulation, other bees flap their wings to create heat. The bees in the ball rotate in and out of the center.

Honeybees' intelligence is seemingly overwhelming when you consider that their brains consist only of several ganglia.

The bees are just a small part of nature where all parts are interlocked and depend on each other.

In his book, God says, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." For emphasis, God says this twice, in Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1. So every time we see an article or letter extolling evolution, we can be sure who's talking.

Albert R. Boynton

Whitefield