This Article: (8 Pages)
- 1. Honey Bees challenge Evolution
- 2. Bees are Irreducibly Complex
- 3. Non-Reducible Interdependence
- 4. Arguments for Intelligent Design
- 5. Intelligent Design Supports a... Creator's Existence
- 6. Design and Nature: by a qualified... Architect
- 7. The Golden Ratio in Plants
- 8. The Golden Ratio an argument for... design in nature
5) Intelligent Design Supports a Creator's Existence
The discoveries of increasing complexity in nature are evidence that points to a compete one off creation by a powerful and intelligent force. The bee and its dependents can not be assigned to the realm of chance and an evolutionary process without the probablity factors pointing to zero, or impossiblity. The participants had to exist simultaneously. Plants had to exist and all types of bees were needed for the process of fertilisation of plants and the production of honey to proceed. When one in the network fails, all the others will fail. This has to support a creationist theory.
To a twenty-first century thinker, who values design in human endeavours, it has to be obvious that great skills in many fields have been employed in the design of the honey bee. There is evidence of the knowledge of engineering, mathematics, architecture, chemistry, biology, physics, electricity, horticulture and social order in this complex network. Humans may be proud of their great knowledge, inventions and discoveries, but one is forced to wonder if all human discoveries simply reflect what already in fact exists. We have merely learnt from nature.
The ultimate purpose for the existence of this amazing insect, seems only for the benefit of the human race and its survival. Without the bee and other nectar gathering birds, reproduction of plants would fail. Bees are essential in the cycle of life on this planet and we can only wonder in amazement at the mind that has designed and created this insect for our ultimate survival. We must, after a consideration of the honey bee surely agree with the Psalmist,
“Many O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou has done and thy thoughts which are to us-ward.” (Psalm 40: 5)
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