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108 THE PERFECT DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSE IS NOT BY CHANCE

The self-sacrifice that animals demonstrate

is one of the main problems that Darwinism en-
counters. Darwinism claims that nature is a
merciless struggle in which the strong crush the
weak, yet animals display many kinds of be-

havior that disproves this claim. Some animals
feed each other and protect each other from
danger; they clean and groom one another and
prepare nests for their young. Sometimes they
will even sacrifice their lives for one another. (A
honeybee, for example, will sting an intruder to

defend her hive, even though the act of stinging
effectively disembowels the bee and results in
her death.) For evolutionists, this is a major
problem. As Darwin says,
So wonderful an instinct as that of
the hive-bee making its cells
will probably have occurred to
many readers, as a difficulty
sufficient to overthrow my
whole theory. 21