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The Honeybees’ Superior Architectural Abilities

When it comes to making contiguous hexagons with an exact

angle of 109 degrees and 28 minutes, one would need compasses
and set squares to produce the various angular measurements and
regularity necessary for devising the angles that determine these
shapes. In the absence of such tools, there is both a considerable
likelihood of error as well as the need to make various adjustments
and redraw some of the hexagons. All of this would probably take
a considerable amount of time. While this is a difficult matter for
human beings, who possess reason and consciousness the same
task is carried out by honeybees, who possess no reason or con-
sciousness, in a perfect and continuous manner without any com-
passes or set squares. All honeybees build their combs using this
flawless angle. Although there are hundreds of bees around the
hive, there is no deviation from the angles of 109 degrees and 28
minutes and 70 degrees and 32 minutes when building their hon-

eycombs. The combs are built by bringing in their edges by 13 de-
grees, which prevents the honey from pouring out.
If you stand close to a honeycomb, all you will see is honey-
bees flying around it. Yet every one of them is also an expert math-
ematician that knows where to stick the wax it is carrying and at
what angle. How is this possible? Given that they possess no math-
ematical knowledge, did they learn to build these perfect combs
by chance? Could each one of them, over the course of mil-
lions of years, have been born with this ability by
chance, an ability that human beings never
managed to acquire by chance? It is
certainly impossible for a bee
to possess an ability that hu-
man beings do not as the re-