Page 28 - The Miracle of the Honeybee

ANIMALS THAT POSE AN INSOLUBLE
DILEMMA FOR DARWINISM

The conscious behavior of bees is one the moment the cuckoo hatches, is
of those surprises that pose an insol- one of the phenomena that made it
uble dilemma for followers of so difficult for Darwin to defend his
Darwin. Yet the theory of evolution theory.
cannot explain not only the behavior Similarly, some ants kidnap the lar-
of bees, but that of a great many vae of other species of ant and en-
other creatures. Female cuckoos, for slave them—another example of
example, lay an egg in other species’ animal behavior that poses a
nests and leave it to hatch and be dilemma for Darwin. The most impor-
reared by these foster parents. In this tant characteristic of these so-called
way, they ensure that their own off- slave-making ants is the way they
spring are looked after by another fight to extract another colony’s lar-
species. The young cuckoo hatches vae, rear them, and then use them as
before the other eggs in the nest, slave labor for their own purposes. In
even though it joins them later, and doing this, slave-making ants imitate
the first thing it does is to push the the alarm-scent given off by the
other eggs out, selecting a time other colony and instill panic in its
when the parent birds are absent in members. As the members of the
order to do this. The young cuckoo colony under attack flee, the slave-
thus guarantees its own survival. making ants seize their food stores
This conscious behavior, displayed
and kidnap their larvae.

These pictures show a fe-
male cuckoo (side), a
young cuckoo throwing
the other bird’s eggs out of
the nest (middle), and the
real owner of the nest
feeding the young cuckoo,
which has actually grown
larger than its host (far
right).

The picture to the immediate above left shows slave-making ants. The conscious behavior of
these insects places evolutionists, who seek to defend the idea that living things emerged by
chance, in a very difficult position. Such a difficult position, in fact, that the statements they
make on this subject are actually admissions of the invalidity of the theory of evolution.