Intelligent Design       
Understatement of the Century  
     
    Researchers have discovered how honeybees pass immunity from one to another. An environmental scientist and professor in Idaho says it makes the term "intelligent design" seem like "the understatement of the century." 

   When bees land on flowers, they ingest fragments of ribonucleic acid (RNA) left by viruses, bacteria, fungi and other sources. That triggers immune responses which they transfer to other bees and larvae. 

   Bees also produce "royal jelly" which absorbs the RNA. Nurse bees feed the jelly to larvae for their first three days of life. 

   After three days, nurse bees continue to feed jelly only to the larvae selected to become queen bees. Other bees eat a mixture of pollen and nectar, developing into sterile worker bees. 

   Also, God designed bees to make proteins that prevent RNA in pollen from breaking down. And the bees produce a sticky substance that protects the transfer of RNA from bee to bee or to larvae. 

   RNA from bees also regulates genes in plants, controlling the size, shape and color of flowers. Some research, huh? 

   The professor says only an exceedingly high degree of intelligent design could perform all these tasks.

   Evolutionists say that natural selection explains all this. "But natural selection selects; it never creates," says Prof. Gordon Wilson, New Saint Andrews College. 

      Jimmy