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Harun Yahya
In the picture, workers repairing the nest while being protected by soldiers.
This mutual assistance among creatures living together shows one of the
many ways in which the evolutionists' claims are untenable.
it—which is impossible—the worker still couldn't pass it on to the next
generation because it cannot produce any new generation. Among so-
cial insects, only the queen has the ability to reproduce and pass on her
genes to the generation after her. But her features are not sufficient to
perpetuate the colony's existence. It could not survive without the co-
operation, discipline and self-sacrifice of the workers and the soldiers.
As soon as they hatch, these tiny insects know very well what they
have to do. Who, then, teaches them how to carry out their activities?
These are questions still awaiting answers from evolutionists.
Charles Darwin was well aware of the problems; in his On the Origin
of Species, he admitted the difficulties that the behavior of social insects
posed to his theory:
If a working ant or other neuter insect had been an ordinary animal, I
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