A Marvel of Creation

Yesterday, the famed British physicist Stephen Hawking made news when it was revealed that his new book, due later this month, stated that God was unnecessary for creation of the cosmos.

This wouldn't have been so interesting normally. But it was made all the more ironic as I was just recently introduced to one of the most fascinating things I have ever seen in support of an intelligent design.

Behold the Japanese honeybee. The Japanese honeybee has a predator: the incredibly ferocious Japanese hornet. The Japanese hornet wreaks havoc on European honeybee colonies. Japanese honeybees, on the other hand, have a very unique defense. You must watch it.




Now, I know this may not be an absolutely-fail-safe proof, but how in the world could that amazing collective ability have evolved? How could natural selection have chosen the bees that just happened to randomly learn that collectively they could defeat this predator. It's not as if their unique quality is some physical trait shared by each individual. Their unique quality is only expressed in and as a community. It's as if every single individual in that original primeval community had to evolve at about the same time in the same way, so they could all function in one unit to defend themselves. Otherwise, this predator would have seemingly made them extinct. It's as if this collective trait was something learned and passed down from generation to generation, which would only speak to their genius and the genius of their designer.

And then there's the temperatures. It's quite extraordinary that this honeybee has a maximum threshold of 118⁰ and, oh-so-perfectly, their dreaded predator has a maximum threshold of 116⁰, and they can somehow generate enough heat to just barely kill their predator while not killing themselves. The whole thing just smells of divinity's touch.