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To: cheee
Insects and the A-10 Warthog. When constructed, the A-10 is built ‘around’ it’s huge Gatling gun. I view many insects as having the same design criteria. A good example is the spider and it’s web-producing spinnerets. In it’s tiny little brain, deposited there while growing from a single egg and strand of DNA, are all the instructions necessary to use it’s primary-weapon. And, boy, is it useful.

Scorpions, wasps, mosquitoes, praying mantis, etc... built around a primary-weapon, including the instruction set somehow implanted in their little brains. How does this instruction manual get there?

The comparison of scorpions, etc. to an A-10 Warthog is awesome. Neither has a structure that can be extricated from the information required to build them. The A-10 is generated from assembly-line construction; the scorpion is obviously generated from the assembly-line of God, or there would be no mechanism from which the information requiring the 'firing' of the scorpion stinger to be added to the scorpion.

The evolutionist can't explain this! What do they think - that the stinger appeared from some "benevolent mutation", then the poison just happened to appear from another "benevolent mutation", that the scorpion just suddenly decided to use it from another "benevolent mutation"? Ridiculous.

The hand of the Lord is obviously involved in complexities like this. A-10 Warthogs aren't just spontaneously born by natural means with information already built-in that can somehow "improve"; obviously the same principle applies to the scorpion. Bless our Creator!

Thanks for the insightful post!

13 posted on 05/16/2009 7:10:02 PM PDT by WondrousCreation (Good science regarding the Earth's past only reveals what Christians have known for centuries!)
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To: WondrousCreation

http://www.peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/treeoflife/morph.html

The animation linked above shows how this technique of ancestral character state reconstruction is used to infer the evolution of the shape, size and number of body parts of the arachnids (the branch of the Tree of Life that includes spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks) and their relatives such as the horseshoe crabs. To see how their different body forms evolved, we can trace up the branches from an ancestor at the base to any tip of the tree and watch the evolutionary changes that are reconstructed along the way.

Notice that the ancestor of two descendants seldom looks like either descendant, because change usually happens along both paths. In fact, phylogenetic trees show that it is misguided to say, for example, that “humans evolved from chimps;” rather, both humans and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor that differed from both.

The common ancestor of all arachnids probably resembled the now extinct eurypterids or sea scorpions, fearsome aquatic predators that lived some 250 to 500 million years ago.
While arachnids share basic body parts, these have diverged in fascinating ways.

The chelicerae in spiders, for example, are fangs that evolved the ability to inject venom; in pseudoscorpions they evolved to produce silk; and in solpugids they became massive jaws that rip apart prey.

In scorpions, the rear of the abdomen evolved into a poisonous stinger; in spiders, into a silk-producing organ for making webs; and in whip scorpions, a feeler for targeting a cannon that fires nasty chemicals at its enemies.

http://www.peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/treeoflife/branches.html


15 posted on 05/16/2009 8:58:26 PM PDT by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, They need not fear the works of men.)
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