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hroughout this book, we have examined a great many features of
honeybees and answered the question of how the bees’ perfect
Tsystems, their intelligent behavior, and such abilities as calcula-
tion, planning and construction came into being. We have also shown in
some detail how the mechanisms proposed by evolutionists are invalid by
citing examples from the life cycle of bees and the mechanisms they pos-
sess. Most important of all, a truth has again been revealed that everyone
who uses common sense can clearly see.
In order to perceive this truth, let us try to find the answer to the ques-
tion of how the first bee lived. Let us also see that it is impossible for evo-
lutionists to provide a consistent answer on this subject.
As we know, evolutionists maintain that all living things are de-
scended from one single ancestor as the result of chance. In fact, this claim
has totally collapsed. (For details see the appendix “The Deception of
Evolution”.) However, let us for the moment assume that the first bee did
in fact come into existence by chance. In order for this bee’s line to survive
there must have been a female—or to be more accurate, a queen. Yet the
queen is unable to find her own food; as we know, the workers feed her
with special royal jelly. That is the only way her ability to lay eggs comes
about. That being so, any queen that’s unable to feed herself or lay eggs
will be unable to continue her line. Moreover, a queen by herself is not
enough, she also needs a male to fertilize her.
In the same way, let us also assume that a queen bee and a male came
into existence by chance—the chances of which are, in fact, zero. Imagine
that the queen starts laying eggs after being fertilized. But the queen can-
not make honeycombs, since she lacks that particular ability. She cannot
lay her eggs just anywhere, because the larvae that hatch out cannot sur-
vive unprotected. Neither can the queen provide food for the larval bees,
since she is unable to leave her nest to gather pollen or nectar and lacks the
organs with which honey is generated. It is thus inevitable that the larvae
will die soon after they hatch.
In conclusion, it is evidently quite impossible for a honeybee to come

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