How Did Bees Learn to Calculate?
As we have seen so far, bees calculate in various different ways and use the Sun in doing so. It is quite impossible for an insect to know about the movements of the Earth and Sun, to know the consequences, and act accordingly. It's out of the question for bees to be getting these calculations right every time by sheer chance. Nevertheless, all scientists who have researched the subject agree that bees have indeed been performing these calculations with complete accuracy for millions of years.
Unless someone has received the appropriate training, if he gets lost, he'll need some equipment such as a compass to find his way. It is almost impossible for him to find his way by calculating the exact position of the Sun. Yet despite the Sun being in constant motion, a bee can describe the site it's visited, in a flawlessly correct manner, to other bees in the hive.
How could these extraordinary abilities have come about? How did bees learn to perform these calculations?
First, bees must have possessed an ability to find their way and to give directions to other bees, ever since the moment they first appeared on Earth. This ability is essential if they are to meet their needs for food and shelter-and thus, for their very survival.
It is impossible for this ability to have developed over time by means of various changes, as evolutionists would have us believe. Indeed, scientists supporting the theory of evolution find themselves faced with the very difficult question of how bees' communication abilities came into existence. Richard Dawkins, one of the leading contemporary evolutionists, is clearly "bewildered" by the question of the evolution of the bee dance, but attempts to provide an answer in these faltering terms:
The suggestion is that . . . . Perhaps the dance is a kind of . . . . It is not difficult to imagine . . . . Nobody knows why this happens, but it does . . . . It probably provided the necessary . . . . We have found a plausible series of graded intermediates by which the modern bee dance could have been evolved from simpler beginnings. The story as I have told it . . . . may not be the right one. But something a bit like it surely did happen. 85
As can be seen from Dawkins' faulty logic in reply to this question, it can only be fantasy to talk about the bee dance in terms of "chance" and "transition."
Making use of the Sun to calculate angles is an ability that cannot be acquired by chance. However, it's not enough for bees to learn to dance or to be able to calculate angles; they also need the other bees to be able to understand them. Bearing this in mind, you can see how totally nonsensical it would be to think in terms of "chance." No matter how long one might wait, it's quite impossible for any creature to form such a calculating ability of its own accord.
The bee is a creature with no capacity for thought. Nevertheless, as we have seen throughout, its every action reveals an incomparable intelligence and consciousness. As with every aspect of the universe, this intelligence and consciousness that manifest themselves in bees actually belong to God, the flawless Creator of all.
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