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DIVISION OF LABOR,

AND THE ORDER IN THE HIVE
The number of bees in a hive varies between 10,000 and 80,000. Despite
the large number of insects living together in this way, never is there any
interruption in the functioning of the hive nor any confusion within it,
thanks to the flawless division of labor and discipline among the bees.
The order within the hive is particularly striking. For that reason, sci-
entists have performed very detailed studies of bees, starting with how
that order is established inside the hive, the criteria by which tasks are di-
vided, and how such enormous communities are able to cooperate so
comfortably. The results they came up with proved to be most thought-
provoking for the researchers themselves. In particular, proponents of the
theory of evolution—which maintains that living things came into being
by chance—were forced to consider the contradictions, which now con-
fronted them.
The concept of the “struggle for survival,” one of the fundamental
tenets of the theory of evolution, is just one of the inconsistencies now in
question. According to evolutionists, every living thing in nature fights to
protect its own interests. Moreover, according to this twisted perception,
the reason why a living thing cares for its young is a desire for the survival
of its own genes, in other words, nothing more than an instinct. “Instinct”
is in any case the explanation that evolutionists proffer to account for any
behavior they can’t explain in any other way. Yet they are unable to offer a

logical explanation of how these instincts could have emerged in the first
place.
Evolutionists maintain that instinct is a feature acquired through the
mechanism known as natural selection. Natural selection mandates that
all forms of change beneficial to a living thing should be selected and
made permanent in that living thing and thus transmitted to subsequent
generations. On careful inspection, however, it’s clear that consciousness
and some decision-making mechanism are necessary for any such selec-
tion to be made. In other words, a living thing must first engage in a given

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