Page 73 - The Miracle of the Honeybee

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If, as we have seen, the workers decide on the number of cells in light of
the needs of the hive, prepare the dimensions of those cells according to
that number, and thus direct the queen’s actions accordingly, a number of
questions spring to mind: Is it possible for an insect to make minute calcu-
lations and decide on the cell size on its own? Or is it possible for any one
insect to direct the actions of another? Of course not! Bees have very small
brains, and entirely lack such attributes as thought, judgment or calcula-
tion. That being the case, it appears that there is another Power which con-
trols the bees’ behavior. The explanation for the worker bees’ direction of
the queen is both creatures’ acting under the inspiration of God, Who
teaches both groups of insects how to behave.
Let us now stop for a moment and consider that all the details we have
examined so far demonstrate exceedingly conscious behavior, a flawless
social order in the lives of bees, and the existence of features and struc-
tures fully compatible to carry out that order.
Quite obviously, no bee can identify the millimetric variations in the di-
mensions of the cells itself, nor decide accordingly on the gender of the
egg. We therefore need to ask the following: Who determines the number
of workers and males needed in the hive, and when a new queen will be
needed? Do the intelligence and consciousness of the bees who build the
combs establish this order? Or consider the queen, an insect only a few
centimeters long and with a brain consisting of very basic nerve connec-
tions. With its own limited intelligence, how can such a creature possibly
understand the purpose behind the comb cells constructed and lay the ap-
propriate egg in each one with no confusion ever arising?
What emerges as a result of this is the existence of a flawless supervi-
sion of bees. Yet that control is not exerted by the queen bee or a few other
bees over tens of thousands of workers. It is actually the inspiration of
God. Like all other species, bees behave according to the inspiration of
God and maintain the flawless order we have been considering so far. God
has created their bodily systems to be ideally suited to the lives they are to
lead. He is the Creator of all:

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