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The Bombardier Beetle

If there is any creature on Earth that could not possibly have evolved, that creature is the bombardier beetle. It needed God to create it with all its systems fully functional. Evolutionary theory has big problems when attempting to explain the existence and complexity of the bombardier beetle.
Each stage in the evolution of its special chemicals would have wed to its destruction. This one-half inch insect mixes chemicals which violently react to produce something similar to an explosion. How could the bombardier beetle have evolved this means of defense without killing itself in the process? This problem has the members of the evolutionary establishment scratching their heads. Evolutionary theory says that you do not evolve something until you know you need it. In other words a new enzyme or chemical or organ or fin or beak or bone will not evolve until the creature realizes it needs the new improvement.
The bombardier beetle would not have known it needed a mechanism to prevent these chemicals from blowing it up until it mixed the chemicals and blew itself up. Naturally, it could not evolve after it was dead, so how did it get here? The evolutionists say, "We don't know."

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old comment by Canadiest

This one has survived for decades because of it's level of complexity alone. Science can and does explain how this can evolve over time but it's not a very easy explanation so you people bail out right after the preamble.

I can't tell you how many times I've read or heard Creationists on YouTube say "Creation is just easier and simpler to understand".

These children used to say (and some still do) "How do Bumblebees fly, they shouldn't be able to, they're too heavy". Like Christians have insight into such things and they, and only they determine what is too heavy, too big or too complex to naturally occur. Well YOU DON'T.

Even though it took years to get it through some of their skulls, How do Bumblebees fly was easy to answer: Badly. So for the last couple decades it's been the Bombardier Beetle which even Behe has avoided discussing even though he's the ass that started it.

@tfaddict

It's not original at all, some of those sentences are near verbatim from Kent Hovind material about 11 to 15 years ago and everything Kent put out there was pulled from other sources even longer ago.It's kinda sad that a lot of this creation apologetics goes back 40 to 80 years but no one was gullible enough to buy it OR it took the modern age of easy access to people to popularize it.

old comment by Swede

Side note: The common banana did not evolve. It was bred by humans into the form it has today.

So, who created God? How complex is He?

No, the "evolutionary establishment" guesses that it evolved in similar ways to other insects with defense mechanisms.

Evolutionary theory says nothing of the sort. It's not a sentient process, it's just random mutations and natural selection. In the selection part, things that are useful or neutral usually stay, and perhaps get more mutations in the next stages, to make it even more useful.

The beetle, being an insect, might not even know that it's doing it (mixing chemicals, that is). It has just evolved into acting in a certain way, which drives adversaries away. Do you consciously empty your stomach, birdy, or is that an automatic process?

"We don't know" is much better than Goddidit, you noob. Not knowing leads to questioning, research, testing and finding out. Settling with Goddidit is a dead-end, it doesn't lead to anything, no new discoveries or possible new benefits.

“The Bombardier Beetle

If there is any creature on Earth that could not possibly have evolved, that creature is the bombardier beetle.”
Argument from incredulity? I can NOT believe you’re offering that.

"It needed God to create it with all its systems fully functional.”
Nope. There are other examples of animals that squirt things defensively. Squid, skunk, stinkbugs.

"Evolutionary theory has big problems when attempting to explain the existence and complexity of the bombardier beetle.”
Not really.

“Each stage in the evolution of its special chemicals would have wed to its destruction.”
Okay, so get this, if a mutation is lethal, it doesn’t get passed on to future generations.
If you kill every sharpshooter that misses a target, you end up with sharpshooters that never missed.

"This one-half inch insect mixes chemicals which violently react to produce something similar to an explosion. How could the bombardier beetle have evolved this means of defense without killing itself in the process?”
By tiny increments of improvement.

"This problem has the members of the evolutionary establishment scratching their heads.”
Don’t lie, even for Jesus.

“Evolutionary theory says that you do not evolve something until you know you need it.”
Kinda. I mean, you don’t develop an immunity to an insecticide until the species is exposed to insecticides. Then the survivors will tend to capitalize on immunity.
But that’s not the only reason to evolve, and it’s not a matter of choice.

"In other words a new enzyme or chemical or organ or fin or beak or bone will not evolve until the creature realizes it needs the new improvement.”
No. There’s no ‘realizing’ involved.
Mutations occur, the descendants with that new trait will prosper.

"The bombardier beetle would not have known it needed a mechanism to prevent these chemicals from blowing it up until it mixed the chemicals and blew itself up.”
OR, it developed a much weaker solution as it evolved teh delivery system, then the more effective recipes developed.

"The evolutionists say, "We don't know."”
When’s the last time you asked?