The Amazing Ant Reveals Intelligent Design
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
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🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Hank Hennograph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug short. |
| 0:23.6 | My wife was attacked by ants the other day when she was hanging up lights, Christmas lights, |
| 0:32.0 | at my son's house. I couldn't help but think about something that I had memorized a long time ago in Proverbs |
| 0:40.8 | chapter 6, where Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, save the incarnate Christ, of course, |
| 0:50.9 | said, go to the aunt, observe her ways and be wise, which having no chief officer or |
| 1:00.9 | ruler prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, you can go to the internet and kind of look at ants, and it opens your mind to the |
| 1:19.0 | brilliance of creation. |
| 1:24.4 | Weaver ants, for example, construct nests that are about the size of soccer balls. |
| 1:31.3 | And they do it through teamwork. |
| 1:34.3 | They sew leaves together by joining the edges. |
| 1:38.3 | And by the way, the leaves are still attached to the trees. |
| 1:43.3 | So this permits photosynthesis. |
| 1:49.0 | And if the edges are jagged, well, the ants trim them. |
| 1:55.0 | And then they glue the edges together using silk, and they use various tools in the process. |
| 2:04.9 | They work in unison. They cooperate. |
| 2:09.8 | The question I have on this Hank Unplug Short is simply this. How could such extreme |
| 2:16.5 | behavior have evolved? |
| 2:18.3 | If you take all the complexities into consideration, it is highly unlikely that you can attribute this to blind evolutionary processes. |
| 2:28.3 | Evolution certainly cannot account for these complex programmed behaviors. |
| 2:40.0 | You can't ultimately say, well, this is a function of random mutation and selection. |
| 2:49.0 | So go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise. |
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