God’s Creation – Vanilla Beans and Melipona Bees

Recent discoveries of symbiotic relationships in nature, have been blanketed with the ubiquitous label “co-evolution.”  Never mind that it is mathematically and statistically impossible, the creation deniers soothe themselves with this bizarre idea.  One single organism evolving is far fetched enough.  But two organisms evolving to be interdependent?  No algorithm can be developed to cover any such mechanisms. 

‘All of the problems with evolutionary theory, as outlined in Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome, have now been rigorously proven using numerical simulation. We did this using “Mendel’s Accountant”, a state-of-the-art computer analytical tool for genetic systems. Five scientists—John Baumgardner, Wes Brewer, Paul Gibson, Walter ReMine, and I—developed this tool. We reported these new findings in two secular publications, and they will soon be discussed in a second book, Genetic Entropy and Mendel’s Accountant.’

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People often take for granted the natural world around them.  When baking, do you stop to wonder in amazement at your bottle of vanilla extract?  I hope so.  It is truly a miracle, just as everything in God’s Creation is.


Vanilla Stumps Evolutionists

Genesis 1:11

“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”

The next time you enjoy a vanilla ice cream cone, keep in mind that vanilla wouldn’t even exist if evolution were true. Evolutionists don’t have a blooming idea about the origin of a special symbiotic relationship between a particular flower and a very special bee.

Cross section of the vanilla orchidYou see, vanilla comes from the vanilla planifolia plant which develops into the Mexican vanilla orchid. Unlike most orchids, this one blooms only one morning each year. The orchid also has a hood-like membrane that covers the part that produces pollen. These two facts make pollination almost impossible.

But the God who created this plant also created the Mexican Melipona Bee – the only insect that knows how to pollinate the orchid. After landing on the flower, the bee lifts up the hood, collects the pollen and then flies off to another flower. Once pollinated, the orchid produces a vanilla bean. If not pollinated within eight to twelve hours, the flower wilts and drops from the mother vine.

Without the Mexican Melipona Bee, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy any of the delicious foods made with vanilla extract. So we would ask evolutionists – which came first: the orchid or the bee? And how did the bee learn to pollinate the vanilla orchid?

At best, evolutionists can only offer guesses. But creationists know that the bee and the flower are a match made in heaven. They enjoy a symbiotic relationship so that each can survive … and so we can enjoy the fruit of their labor!

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This video demonstrates human beings hand pollinating vanilla orchids in Uganda.  It is not easy to do!  The stingless Melipona bee does not need to be taught how to pollinate the Vanilla orchid.   It is what they do.

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Ecclesiastes 11:5

 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

We serve a Holy and Wonderful God.  As “earth day”  (April 22) is celebrated by pagans around the world,  let us pause to worship the creator of this earth, and the fascinating variety of life and beauty that comes from His handiwork.

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