[xcamel]

Tripple CrapFest today, eh?

[GodGunsGuts]

ping!

[Rennes Templar]

I think engineers can learn a lot from insect mechanics. I have always been fascinated by the “daddy long legs” spider, how they control those long legs, about 20 times the size of their bodies. The control systems must be ingenious.

[Old Landmarks]

Another amazing creation, revealing God's handiwork for all but the most close-minded.

[whattajoke]

Dragonflies are amazing, aren't they.

Interesting footnote to the article: "The fact that living and fossil forms are the same despite the supposed “millions of years of evolution” in the meantime is a major challenge to evolutionists, though they don’t always admit it."

Why would they admit to something that isn't true? First, many species have remained relatively unchanged for millions of years. How in the world is this a problem for evolutionary theory?

Creationists would be better served selecting other unique insects without a fossil record. Dragonflies have one of the better fossil records, dating back about 300 million years.

And as far as "unchanged," let me know the next time you spot a dragonfly with a TWO AND A HALF FOOT wingspan.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Usage of the word "design" multiple times....check.

Some cool info on dragonfly wings....check.

With this new insight into the aerodynamic efficiency of out-of-phase flapping, engineers hope to apply it in the next generation of flapping micro air vehicles.

I seriously doubt anyone's REALLY looking at a "flapping" aircraft. MUCH easier to have a rotary mechanism than a flapping mechanism.....I'd guess it's easier on the aircraft too. Just thinking of all that stress on an attachment point...

It defies reason to suggest that an energy-efficient aerial acrobat such as the dragonfly was not intentionally, and intelligently, designed.

False conclusion Dr., but good use of the word "design"...

In fact, the researchers involved in this aerodynamic efficiency study apparently recognized the difficulty their finding presents to the widely-accepted evolutionary scenario, which posits that four-winged dragonflies arose long before (i.e., are “more primitive” than) the two-winged Diptera

BWAAAAAAhahahahaha......stupid Dr. should have studied some entomology. Dipterans' ancestors USED TO HAVE 4 wings but their hind wings developed into haltares....hint.....evolution.

Surely it makes much more sense to say that four-winged dragonflies and two-winged flies were each designed to do what they do do, and what they do do, they do do well!

Surely, Dr., it makes more SCIENTIFIC sense to say that dipterans, hemipterans, anisopterans, zygopterans, tricopterans, etc.... evolved or co-evolved from common 4-winged ancestors.

The Creationist thing to say is "God did it."

[Ira_Louvin]

“Surely it makes much more sense to say that four-winged dragonflies and two-winged flies were each designed to do what they do do, and what they do do, they do do well!”

What empirical evidence does the author cite to support this assertion?

[GingisK]

[RFEngineer]

God’s evolution at work!

[count-your-change]

Thanks for an interesting article. Dragonflies really are one of our Creator’s marvels. I wonder how far those wings could be scaled up.