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Monarch Butterfly Antenna: A Hi-tech Tiny Toolkit
ICR News ^ | October 9, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 10/09/2009 8:29:19 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Monarch butterflies have fascinated biologists for a long time. A 3,000-mile road trip in even the most comfortable car would prove daunting to many humans, but these beautiful insects can migrate that same distance every year from Canada to a specific grove of fir trees in Mexico each fall. The next generation of monarchs can then travel back to Canada in the spring.

Scientists are investigating the tools that these tiny flying creatures use to achieve this feat. One leading monarch researcher has discovered an important reason why the butterflies’ antennae are vital for successful navigation...

(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: belongsinreligion; butterfly; catholic; christian; creation; evangelical; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; insect; intelligentdesign; judaism; monarch; notasciencetopic; propellerbeanie; protestant; science; themonarch
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1 posted on 10/09/2009 8:29:22 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Sounds like another waste of government money. Who the hell cares why butterflies fly from one place to another.


2 posted on 10/09/2009 8:31:37 AM PDT by AUH2O Repub (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Monarch 01.jpg Obligatory "I'll get you Doctor Venture!!!"
3 posted on 10/09/2009 8:32:35 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GodGunsGuts
Fascinating post. Especially the last sentence. Who would imagine that Science would print this, using Genesis as a reference?

And what better candidate for the identity of this engineer than the God of the Bible, who made every creature “very good” in the beginning, including the monarch butterfly with its amazing navigation system?
4 posted on 10/09/2009 8:36:04 AM PDT by secret garden (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: AUH2O Repub

ICR is privately funded, I believe. The reason they study stuff like this is because the believe in bringing creationist research to an evolutionists world.

Why should the atheists have all the research?


5 posted on 10/09/2009 8:41:32 AM PDT by The Californian (The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition. Bob Jones, Sr.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

They use GPS...........God’s Positioning System.............


6 posted on 10/09/2009 8:43:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Zero has more airtime than Michael Jordan...........)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Years ago while traveling in Mexico I encountered the Monarch migration. Millions of these astoundingly beautiful creatures swarming all around my car as they quietly fluttered by like living flowers on the wind, though gone in a few minutes the memory remains.
And yet, they are only one of many varieties that our Creator has blessed us with.


7 posted on 10/09/2009 8:44:15 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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They use GPS...........God’s Positioning System.............

Hold it! Hold it!!! Is this guy trying to tell us that this isn't some cosmic accident?

8 posted on 10/09/2009 8:52:12 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: dearolddad

Imagine how many butterflies got lost before they evolved..............


9 posted on 10/09/2009 8:55:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Zero has more airtime than Michael Jordan...........)
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To: secret garden; GodGunsGuts

“Science” didn’t include that reference. Mr. Thomas did.


10 posted on 10/09/2009 8:59:27 AM PDT by FormerRep
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To: GodGunsGuts

Evolution is truly amazing!
Thanks for posting this.


11 posted on 10/09/2009 9:01:28 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: count-your-change
Millions of these astoundingly beautiful creatures swarming all around my car as they quietly fluttered by like living flowers on the wind, though gone in a few minutes the memory remains.

That reminds me... I need to refill the wiper fluid in my car...
That stuff is hard to remove from the windshield if you don't get it off right away.

12 posted on 10/09/2009 9:03:15 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Just another case of random mutation....;)


13 posted on 10/09/2009 9:03:37 AM PDT by the long march
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To: AUH2O Repub

Actually some of the work that is being done translates into our ability to make, smaller drones for the military. Being able to understand and possibly duplicate how insects get from A to B and back will make it possible for killer robots to be deployed with no human driving the little buggers. Better use of money that spending that goes to ACORN


14 posted on 10/09/2009 9:05:55 AM PDT by the long march
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To: FormerRep

If they printed his article as written, they included the author’s references.


15 posted on 10/09/2009 9:09:14 AM PDT by secret garden (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: GodGunsGuts

A bump for the recognition of God’s amazing creation!


16 posted on 10/09/2009 9:18:44 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Darkness has no response to light, except to flee.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Then there are the tiny hummingbirds which come back each year to my front porch and, if the feeder has not been hung in the same spot where it was in prior years, will hover at that spot over and over again until it is, once again, in its "proper" place.

After feeding, there is a spot on a small limb on a nearby maple tree where the hummingbird sits after feeding, and its position on that limb does not vary by six inches from year to year.

17 posted on 10/09/2009 9:28:12 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: secret garden

His article did not appear in “Science” it was in ICR.


18 posted on 10/09/2009 9:31:31 AM PDT by FormerRep
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To: humblegunner

Evolution IS amazing, like a horse with four back legs and no head, it is credited with being “progressive” without direction, going somewhere but leading to nothing.

Thanks indeed!


19 posted on 10/09/2009 9:43:09 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: humblegunner

Evolution IS amazing, like a horse with four back legs and no head, it is credited with being “progressive” without direction, going somewhere but leading to nothing.

Thanks indeed!


20 posted on 10/09/2009 9:50:39 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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