fig.1) salmon goin' home
Here are some questions for you to ponder: Where does the information
that is found in even the simplest of organisms come from? The informa-
tion that we typically refer to as instinct.
How do bacteria move? How do bacteria know where to move? How do
bacteria know what method of metabolism to use? How do bacteria know
how to reproduce? In finding the answers to these questions, you soon
realize that these simple organisms are amazing feats of engineering.
How does the salmon know that it must swim up the stream in which
it was born? Who told it that it had to do this? This is an incredible
phenomenon that boggles the mind.
How does the honeybee know how to navigate to and from the hive over a
great distance? How does the bee even know that it is supposed to return
to the hive? How does the bee know its place in a complex social struc-
ture?The list of questions goes on and on, but bee doesn't know any of this; it just
does its duty.
How could the spider's instincts evolve into a mastery of engineering?
Did at some point the spider build a partial web? How could that have
possibly allowed for the survival of the species? A one-strand web would
not catch very much food.And why would a spider even posses
the capability of making silk (that alone is a remarkably complex
procedure) before it had the ability to make a web?
What a thoroughly disgusting and yet, fascinating creature is the spider.
The spider knows nothing.It just does what it does.
These highly advanced and complex tasks by these mindless creatures
(mindless not brainless)are programmed in at a molecular level.They could
not have survived without these"programs". The species would have quickly
died out.
To think this crucial information evolved into these "simple" creatures
over eons of time is folly.next page....
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fig.2) stringing up a guitar is much easier
fig.3)...sincere apologies to the
arachnaphobes
photo by Steve Clark (www.spiders.zacharoo.com)
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