By Stucky for TheBurniningPlatform.com - January 26, 2025

I’m the last person you should ask if God exists. Some days I will say “no”. This has mostly to do with, 1) pain and suffering, especially when infants are involved, and 2) the problem of evil. I’m sure I’ve read thousands of pages on those two issues …. and have yet to find answers that are completely reasonable and satisfactory.

Some days, like today, I will say “yes”. All because of the Murder Hornet. Such an incredible marvel of engineering, complexity, elegance, and beauty simply cannot be explained away by billions of years and millions of accidental but fortunate mutations (evolution). Fred asks a lot of questions for which Darwinists simply have no answer. Indeed, Murder Hornets are fearfully and wonderfully MADE.

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Examining Hornets, Carefully: Darwinism and Its Bugs

Evolution is the political correctness of science, the one scientific theory that cannot be questioned. Biologists can lose their jobs for doubting it. Droning nature shows on television inculcate from our birth its certainty. we are assured that only snake-handling primitive Christians disbelieve, that all scientists affirm it, which they don’t. Most who wonder have the good sense to shut up about it.

The many clandestine apostates raise multitudinous questions, of which in a later column, but the greatest and most accessible doubt is called irreducible complexity. }the faithful avoid this matter with irrepressible obduracy. but let us ponder it.

Before considering examples of IC, let us make sure we understand the principle of gradualism, the bedrock of Darwinian theory.

Supposedly, new biological features come about by the gradual accretion of slight modifications due to mutations that are beneficial to the organism or, perhaps, at least neutral. Evolutionists agree that most mutations are harmful and die out quickly but, they say, from time to time a favorable mutation occurs, and increases the fitness of the organism, as for example by increasing muscular strength or resistance to disease. This gives the possessor a higher chance of surviving, reproducing, and passing on the new and beneficial trait. The next mutation furthers the process, gradually leading to an increasingly fit organism. This at any rate is the theory.

The likelihood of this accounting for the increase of qualities like strength depends on such elements of population genetics as mutation rates, population size, rate of reproduction, and number of sequential favorable mutations needed to produce the feature. The first and last are seldom known. However, that a series of beneficial mutations must occur is agreed.

Irreducible complexity refers to the observation that a great many features occur in nature that cannot have evolved gradually because many parts would have to appear simultaneously, the entire system being useless if any element is missing.

Darwin himself foresaw this possibility, saying:

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.” - (The Origin of Species)

In this he was more honest than his followers. In fact many such examples can be found. We will examine several throughout this monograph, but start, carefully, with a hornet.

The Hornet’s Sting

Perhaps the clearest example of irreducible complexity is the stinging system of the hornet. This consists of several distinct parts: (1) a biochemical mechanism to produce the venom, (2) a sac to hold it, (3) muscles to express the venom through the stinger, (4) the stinger itself, (5) muscles to force the stinger into the victim, (6) nerves to control both sets of muscles, (7) muscles to retract the stinger if it is to be used more than once, and (8) the instinct to use the sting. These must exist simultaneously and function in coordination in order to work. Absent any one, the system is useless . . .

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