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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

conditioning. A wonderful health system functions in the hive to
control all events that may result in the origination of bacteria.
This system firstly aims at destroying all places that may possi-
bly result in the production of bacteria. The basic principle of this
health system is to prevent foreign objects from entering the
hive. Because of this, there are always two guardians at the hive's
entrance. If a foreign substance or insect enters the hive despite
this prevention, all bees get into action to keep it out of the hive.
For the bigger foreign objects that cannot be carried outside,
another prevention mechanism is started. Bees produce a sub-
stance called "propolis, or bee resin" for these kinds of situations.
They formulate it by gathering resin from trees like pine, poplar
and acacia, then combine it with some special secretions. The
basic utility of propolis is its resistance to bacterial invasion.
Dangerous sorts of substances are therefore, covered with propo-
lis, and, by being subjected to a form of mummification, isolated
from the hive.
First of all, bees apparently know that when a living thing
dies, its body will decay and that the substances resulting from
its putrefaction could sicken the hive's inhabitants. Somehow,
they are also aware that in order to prevent its decay, the dead
creature needs to be subjected to a specific chemical process. And
so they use propolis, with its property of killing bacteria, for this
mummification process.
But how do the bees-emerged as adults less than a month
ago-know that this creature will decay and how to eliminate its
eventual harmful effects? Furthermore, how could they have
thought of using, much less manufacturing-the propolis? Who

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