Reply To: The Bombadier Beetle

invaginations happen

muscles move

the beetle learns to wiggle

cells move

cells appear

chemicals appear

walls get thicker

abdomen elongates

lots of other stuff happens, lots

A mixture of these two chemicals in the presence of the two enzymes in a confined space is explosive. The beetle, on his way to becoming a bombardier beetle, would have to be smart enough to carefully store the chemicals in a storage chamber apart from the enzymes but in the presence of an inhibitor to prevent them from reacting prematurely with one another. He also would have to be smart enough to know which enzymes he needs to catalyze the chemical reactions involved, and he would have to be smart enough to secrete them into the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber itself must be very special, able to resist the corrosive effect of the hot, irritating chemicals and strong enough to contain the high pressure without rupturing. The combustion chamber must also be equipped with a highly efficient valve, and the appropriate muscles must exist to manipulate the combustion tube and point it in the right direction. Of course, all of this incredibly complex apparatus would be totally useless without a precisely designed and perfectly functional communication system to squirt the charge of chemicals into the combustion tube, secrete the enzymes into the combustion tube, activate the valve at the appropriate moment, and differentially and precisely send the correct signals to all of the different muscles involved, in order to point the combustion tube in the right direction. Evolutionists would have us believe that all of the thousands of genes required to direct the construction and operation of all of this arose through a series of copying errors. Furthermore, these complex genetic changes had to occur in just the right order, so that at every stage of development the beetle was not only able to survive but also was actually superior to the preceding stage.

This notion is more than scientifically untenable; it is simply preposterous, but those with their rock hard faith will continue to squirm and wiggle and turn logic on its head to provide “answers”

this is nothing new. the Torah has been attacked with “logic” since the greek “philosophers” and beyond.

we know the Torah will endure all these attacks, and fools in the guise of wise professors will be seen to be what they are.