Articles
Evolutionists
Tacitly Admit Creation
By
Karl C. Priest Oct. 2, 2008) (revised 4-28-09)
Poor, pitiful evolutionists! Confronted with the realities of God’s creation they are forced to use terms that, in effect, admit that life is designed. Scientists are absolutely astounded at what they have found about insects. It is disgraceful that they attribute the miracles to “nature”—the goddess of evolutionism. Just read their own words below. For your benefit, I have bolded the words that condemn evolutionists to admitting design (i. e. creation).
Also, see Thank God for Insects.
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"Our research shows that insects can learn about each other. They are a lot cleverer than we thought they were. In the past, people have thought of insects somewhat as mindless automatons that just follow certain decision rules. But it is becoming increasingly clear that they have complex cognitive capacities that play an important role."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uoc--rot042109.php
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“I have been studying honeybees since 1980, and I am often surprised by our experimental results. The bee is smart.” ... Bees can learn sameness and difference, for example. Coauthor Jürgen Tautz of the University of Würzburg in Germany predicts “astonishment of experts and laymen alike” at the sophistication of the tiny honeybee... Honeybees might be getting by with less memory capacity because they use clever strategies like categorization.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40270/title/A_honeybee_tells_two_from_three
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The remarkable honey bee can tell the difference between different numbers at a glance. A fresh, astonishing revelation about the 'numeracy' of insects has emerged from new research by an international team of scientists from The Vision Centre, in Australia, published January 28 in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/plos-tnh012709.php
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(Regarding
a beetle that can change colors.)
"Nature
never stops surprising us with elegant solutions to
everyday problems," adds Radislav Potyrailo, an analytical
chemist at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, N.Y.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20070905/Note2.asp
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(Regarding
bees looking for a new home.)
"This
is a striking example of decision making by an animal group
that is complicated enough to rival the dealings of any department
committee," said Seeley, a professor of neurobiology
and behavior at Cornell and lead author of the article.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/swarm.quorum.ssl.html
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Insects have inspired scientists to transfer features
which have been optimized over millions of years to present-day
products. Research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, for example,
are working on the development of an ultra-thin image sensor
based on the insect eye.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529105353.htm
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Nature inspires many things, from fashion to perfume
to furniture. Now, technology gets a little inspiration.
After watching
tiny bugs like these walk on water, Carnegie Mellon University mechanical
engineer Metin Sitti wanted one of his own.
"We
tried to make a robot to simulate the insect,"
"Right
now we move by five centimeters per second, and the real insect
can go up to one meter per second. So we are like around 20-times
less speed," Sitti says.
In
the near future, Sitti says his creation could
carry sensors to detect toxins in water supplies. "We can make
many of them, like tens or hundreds of them, and cover a wide range
and give you constant, continuous, water quality report," he
says.
Researchers
at Carnegie Mellon University have built a tiny robot that can walk
on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters,
pond skaters or Jesus bugs. Although it is still a prototype, its
creators believe it could one day be equipped with biochemical
sensors that monitor water quality. It could be used with cameras
for spying, search and rescue operations, or for exploration.
Biomimicry
is a field in which scientists, engineers, and even architects study
models and concepts found in nature, and try to use them to design
new technologies. It as a design principle that seeks sustainable
solutions to human problems by emulating nature's time-tested patterns
and strategies. Nature fits form to function, rewards cooperation,
and banks on diversity. For instance, the Eastgate Building in Harare,
Zimbabwe, is the country's largest commercial and shopping complex,
and yet it uses less than 10 percent of the energy consumed by a
conventional building of its size, because there is no central air
conditioning and only a minimal heating system. The design
follows the cooling and heating principles used in the region's
termite mounds.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0710-robot_walks_on_water.htm
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But for scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), the periodic cicada also offer clues
about how high-speed and high- performance muscles work, and how
this knowledge might someday make human muscle work better.
…says Dr.Wang. "Besides documenting the insects' life
cycle with some really gorgeous photographs and videos, we found
that the tymbal muscle has a special design that
allows the muscle to shorten a lot without damaging the motors that
drive the muscle."
"To really understand muscle performance, it is important
for scientists to look way beyond humans and rodents for sophisticated
designs," says Dr. Wang. "These superfast muscles
in cicada and elsewhere are the 'Maseratis' of muscle. The question
is, 'how do they manage to outperform us?' Can we somehow
and someday engineer these features into 'designer muscles'
that work faster and stronger and last longer? Can we use this engineered
muscle to restore and enhance normal muscle function to people with
degenerative muscle diseases?"
http://www.niams.nih.gov/News_and_Events/Spotlight_on_Research/2007/cicada_muscle.asp
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“It appears that a simple creature like a beetle provides
us with one of the technologically most sought-after structures
for the next generation of computing,” says study
leader Michael Bartl, an assistant professor of chemistry and adjunct
assistant professor of physics at the University of Utah. “Nature
has simple ways of making structures and materials that are still
unobtainable with our million-dollar instruments and engineering
strategies.”
Utah chemistry doctoral student Jeremy Galusha: “Nature
uses very simple strategies to design structures to manipulate light
– structures that are beyond the reach of our current abilities...
Many
iridescent objects appear that way only when viewed at certain angles,
but the beetle remains iridescent from any angle. Bartl says the
way the beetle does that is an “ingenious engineering strategy”
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/05/20/the_photonic_beetle.html
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A beetle’s chemical warfare against marauding ants,
birds and frogs has provided the inspiration for a European effort
to design more efficient fire extinguishers, reliable pharmaceutical
sprays and fuel-injection engines….More recently,
the beetle has inspired fanciful brooches that squirt perfume.
For more serious pharmaceutical applications, McIntosh and Beheshti
believe a water-based combustion chamber could lead to improved
inhalers and nebulizers that need not rely on the finicky mechanical
springs used to trigger the spray in current versions…..Matching
all of the beetle’s natural talents could still be a mean
feat. “If we can think of a mechanism, nature
has already done it, and better,” Eisner said….“Every
time you work with the beetle you end up with something you can’t
believe is true.”
Cornell University entomologist Tom Eisner published a seminal 1999 study that used high-speed photography to document the beetle’s pinpoint precision and rapidly pulsing bursts of spray…
Eisner, who has worked with bombardier beetles for four decades,
said an enduring mystery is how they tolerate the spray that regularly
coats them along with their attackers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24637825/
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Lead researcher, Dr Holger Krapp, from Imperial's Department of
Bioengineering says the pathway from visual signal to head
movement is ingeniously designed: it uses information from
both eyes, is direct, and does not require heavy computing power.
He continues: "Anyone who has watched one fly chasing another
at incredibly high speed, without crashing or bumping into anything,
can appreciate the high-end flight performance of these animals.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/icl-itn072108.php
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(Referring to caterpillar camouflage.)
But he admires the simplicity of having a single switch for the
entire process. "If we had to design a system to do
this, we would design it in the same way," he says.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn13366-bird-poo-camouflage-for-caterpillars-unravelled.html
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The researchers, from the University of California, Berkeley, say
the work may also shed light on how insects developed such
complex visual systems. "Even though insects start
with just a single cell, they grow and create this beautiful
optical system by themselves," said Professor Luke
Lee, one of the authors on the paper.
"I wanted to understand how nature can create layer
upon layer of perfectly ordered structures without expensive fabrication
technology,"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4946452.stm
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Scientists have thought the ability to form social memories and
use them as the basis for complex relationships was a driving force
behind the evolution of large brains. But if tiny-brained
wasps have such ability, perhaps it doesn't demand as much
brainpower as previously thought.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922122423.htm
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By observing bees trained to visit artificial sugar-traps, Tanner
and Visscher discovered that rather than picking a flight path based
on the angle of any one waggle, the bees flew off in a direction
that more closely matched the mean angle of several waggles. "Bees
apparently keep a mental log of the directions indicated in the
dance," says Tanner. "I find it remarkable that,
with a relatively simple brain, they can do something so mathematically
complex."
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg20026764.800-maths-helps-bees-read-the-waggle-dance.html
The studies burnish the impressive list of honeybees' known
cognitive abilities, all achieved with a brain the size of a sand
grain.
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080926-bees-count.html
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(I suggest you see my article BWAH HAH HAH HAAAA! after you read this one.)
Scientists
at the University of Illinois have conducted a genetic analysis
of vespid wasps that revises the vespid family tree and challenges
long-held views about how the wasps’ social behaviors evolved.
These findings
contradict an earlier model of vespid wasp evolution, which placed
the groups together in a single lineage with a common ancestor.
The fact that
eusociality evolved independently in two groups of vespid wasps
also sheds light on the complexity of evolutionary processes, Cameron
said.
“Scientists
attempt to make generalizations and simplify the world. But the
world isn’t always simple and evolution isn’t
simple. This finding points to the complexity of life.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070302082355.htm
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Various teams have attempted to build smaller, lighter wide-angle
cameras by copying the design of an insect’s eye.
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15080-bugeyed-lens-shrinks-wideangle-cameras.html
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I do
not need to add anything to the above words of confused evolutionists.
I hope the reader has realized what contradictions are inherent in evolutionism.
I pray evolutionists will carefully consider what is on this page.
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