Evolutionary Accident or Everlasting Architect?
The Bombardier Beetle:
When ever threatened the bombardier beetle shoots out a noxious gas
which are at 212 degrees F, out from two tail pipes right into the face of
the would be aggressor.
Dr. Hermann Schildknecht, a German chemist, studied the bombardier beetle and
learned the beetle makes his explosives by mixing two very dangerous
chemicals (hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide).
This clever little beetle
also adds another type of chemical known as an inhibitor. The inhibitor
prevents the chemicals from blowing up and enables the beetle to store them
indefinitely.
Whenever our little beetle friend is attacked (e.g. by a frog) he squirts the
stored chemicals into the two combustion tubes, and at precisely the right
moment he adds another chemical (an anti-inhibitor). This knocks out the
inhibitor, and a small but violent explosion occurs right in the face of the
poor attacker.
Now could this marvelous and complex mechanism have evolved piecmeal over
millions of years? The evolutionist sheepishly responds "yes."
According to evolutionary "thinking" there must have been thousands of
generations of beetles improperly mixing these hazardous chemicals in fatal
evolutionary experiments, blowing themselves to pieces!!!!
Eventualy we are
assured, they arrived at the magic formula, but what about the developement
of the inhibitor??
There is no need to involve the inhibitor unless yo
already have the two chemicals you are trying to inhibit. On the other hand,
if you have the two chemicals, without the inhibitor, it is already too late,
for you have just blown yourself up!!!
Obviously, such an arrangement would
never arise apart from intelligent forsight and planning. Nevertheless, let's
sassume that our little beetle friend somehow managed to simultaneously
develop the two chemicals along with the all important inhibitor. This
solution would be no benefit at all, for it would just sit there as a
harmless concoction.
To be of any value to the beetle, the anti-inhibitor
must be added to the solution. So, once again, for thousands of generations
we are supposed to believe that these poor beetles mixed and stored these
chmicals for no particular reason or advantage; until finally, the
anti-inhibitor was perfected.
Now he is really getting somewhere!! With the
anti-inhibitor developed he can now blow himself to pieces, frustrating the
efforts of the hungry predator!!
Ah yes, he still needs to evolve the two
combustion tubes, and a precision communications and timing network to
control and adjust the critical direction and timing of the explosive.
So,
here we go again; for thousands of generations these carefree little beetles
went around celebrating the 4th of July by blowing themselves to pieces until
finally the mastered their new found powers.
But what would be the motivation for such disatrous, trail and error,
piecemeal evolution? Everything in evolution is supposed to make perfect
sense and have a logical purpose, or else it would never develop. But such a
process does not make any sense at all, and to proppose that the entire
system evolved all at once is astronomically improbable, if not impossible.
Yet, nature abounds with countless such examples of perfect cooridnation.
We can only conclude that the surprising little bombardier beetle is a strong
witness for special creation, for there is no other rational explanation for
such a wonder.
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