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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.


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.

Honey for Your Heart

I’m sharing this wonderful article from Creation Moments, because there is a lesson for all of us here.

Job 35:10-11

“But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?”

It has long been known that an African bird known as the honeyguide leads badgers to bees’ nests, where the badger tears the nest apart to eat the honey. The badger always leaves more than enough for the honeyguide.

Lesser honeyguide in MapungubweNow it has been learned that the honeyguide has a similar relationship with the Boran people of Kenya. When the bird has found a bees’ nest, it will alert the Boran, bidding them to follow it to the honey site. On the other hand, if the Boran want to know where honey is, they know how to whistle and call for a honeyguide.

The honeyguide also calls to the people so that they know which way to go. When the Boran reach the honey, they always make sure that they leave some for the honeyguide. Researchers also reported that they saw honeyguides scouting out bees’ nests at night so that they had good sites to lead the Boran to the next day.

While the honeyguide does get its reward of honey in return for its help, the intelligence of the honeyguide in establishing these relationships with human beings is impressive. But while the honeyguide can help teach us that the creation is the work of an intelligent Creator, it cannot teach us how to have a relationship with Him. For that we must go to the Bible.

http://www.creationmoments.com/radio/transcripts/helpful-honeyguide

Try to think back to those times, when the Lord has led you somewhere, and you trusted Him fully to lead you to the expected end.  Just as the man in the video trusts that the Honey Guide would not lead him to a hornet’s nest – we can know that our Savior will not lead us astray if we fully trust in Him.

My favorite Bible verse:

PROVERBS 3:5-6

healing hand

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

The Beauty of Bees

There is no such thing as a “simple” life form. . .

Genesis 1:25

“And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.”

According to the Bible, God created the land-living insects, and that would include the bees, on day six of creation. This was just three days after He created the flowering plants. According to evolution, bees evolved from a simpler insect after the pollen-bearing plants had developed. The specialized bee and its complex social structure was thought to have taken a long time to evolve.

Fast bees or fast talkingCreationists, who believe the time line of events laid out in Scripture and reject inflated evolutionary years, were not surprised when a bee was found preserved in amber which evolutionists said was many millions of years older than the oldest known bee. The almost perfectly preserved bee is like modern bees and can even be identified as a worker. Not only does this show that bees, with all their superb specializations, were around much earlier than ever thought by evolutionists, it also shows that they were around for some time before this specimen lived. In fact, the evolutionist who reported the findings admitted that there is a real problem explaining how bees could have developed nearly at the same time as pollen-bearing plants.

As creationists, we have no such problem. Bees were created, fully formed, only a few days after pollen-bearing plants. Science has shown us once again that the biblical history makes more sense than the evolutionary story of history.

http://www.creationmoments.com/radio/transcripts/fast-bees-or-fast-talking

PSALM 117:1-2

117 O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people.

For His merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.