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like and its patting it against the food it is going to receive. Once again,
there is a designed pairing, a great harmony and therefore an obvious
creation.

Plants that Cohabit With Ants
The pitcher plant of Eastern India, Nepenthes Bicalcarata, allows ant
colonies to inhabit in its trunk. This plant looks exactly like a pitcher and
takes in and digests the insects that land on it. Yet ants are free to wan-
der around on this carnivorous plant, picking up insects and other food
material. 60
This is to the mutual benefit of ants and this plant. The ants are un-
der the threat of being eaten by the plant, yet they have gained a home.
The plant leaves certain tissues and insect remnants to the ants and, in
return, earns protection by the ants from its enemies.
This example defines the outlines of symbiosis between plants and
ants. The anatomies and physiological structures of the ants and their
host plant have been designed to provide this mutual relationship be-
tween them. Although defenders of evolution say that these interspecies
relationships have gradually grown over millions of years, it is obvious
that any claim that two such creatures as have no intelligence could
agree to arrange a mutually beneficial system is untenable.
Then what is it that causes the ants to live on plants?
The tendency of the ants to live on plants is the result of a fluid se-
creted by the plants, called "residual nectar". This nectar fluid serves the
purpose of an invitation for the ants to come to the plant. There is evi-
dence that the plants give out this fluid at certain times. For instance, the
black cherry tree actively gives out this fluid only three weeks in the
year. It is certain that this timing is not coincidental, because this three-
week period is the only time when the tent caterpillar assaults the black
cherry and the ants can easily kill these caterpillars and protect the
plant. 61
To see how obviously this is evidence of creation, one needs noth-
ing other than normal common sense. It is, of course, impossible to ac-
cept that the tree has calculated the period in which it is subject to the
most harm and has decided that the best way to protect itself during this
period would be to attract ants and that, to this end, it has produced a

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