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But age is not the only factor involved in determining a bee’s tasks.
Although each bee has its specific responsibilities, in an emergency, bees can
also change their duties instantly. This is an enormous advantage in a soci-
ety as crowded as the hive’s. If the distribution of labor among bees were
bound by fixed rules, then in the event of some unexpected happening, the
colony might face grave difficulties. For instance, in case of a major attack
on the hive, if only the sentry bees participated in the fighting and the rest
all carried on with their own jobs, this would represent a serious danger to
the hive. Yet what actually happens is that a large part of the colony takes
part in the defense, and security becomes an immediate priority.
The way that bees suddenly change jobs is actually no different than
someone working in the health field suddenly taking up employment in
architecture or engineering. To make a comparison with human beings,
people capable of serving in different capacities are described as intelli-
gent. Yet when these characteristics, perfectly normal for human beings,
come to apply to insects, matters are rather different because human be-
ings acquire experience and an accumulation of knowledge in different
areas by undertaking training or learning on the job. Yet bees do not. It is
clear therefore that this is an extraordinary situation. How are the accu-
mulated knowledge and abilities of bees to be accounted for? By whom
were these skills taught to them?
According to the proponents of the theory of evolution, the root of
these myriad abilities is either chance or the old mythological figure of
“Mother Nature.” Evolutionists maintain that the force they describe as
natural selection turns bees into expert architects, dedicated caretakers
and expert honey manufacturers. However, the concept of “nature”—a
world consisting of birds, insects, reptiles, trees, stones and flowers—can-
not produce a bee through a string of coincidences. It cannot create a bee’s
wing, or the ability whereby all the combs in a hive are crafted according
to the same measurements, or the bees’ reproductive systems—or, in brief,
even a single component of the bee’s body. That is because nature itself
was also created by God. Every component of nature, and every detail
thereof, was created by God.
Like all living things on Earth, bees act in accord with God’s inspira-