Nature and the human body, as per yesterday's post, show signs of intelligent engineering design. Consider the honeybee, for example.
For our many new readers who haven't seen this before, enjoy some re-posts from three years ago.
Bee algorithm 1
You could describe an office building as a complex, functional system designed to enable people to carry out their jobs and accomplish their company's purpose. Well-educated people designed and constructed all the sub-systems (like electrical) that make it work.
You could also say that a honeybee hive is a complex, functional system designed to enable bees to carry out their jobs in this home which provides for their needs while they accomplish the mission to produce honey.
Intelligent, these bees. They start working at their jobs when they're three weeks old. The ones who build the hive don't go to hive-building college, since they're born knowing exactly what to do. How, exactly, do they know that?
Glands in their bodies create construction material: "Wax is an expensive commodity and so comb construction can be quite costly for a honeybee colony. Honeycomb is constructed in such a way to minimize wax consumption." Like a responsible human engineering firm.
Its hexagonal pattern gives optimal strength and stability to its material (wax), while it optimizes space and thermal efficiency for its purpose. "The use of hexagonal honeycombs by bees is not a coincidence" (Boston Research Journal published this week).
from Evolution News
(cont'd tomorrow)
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