Intelligent Bee Design

Slashdot recently linked to an article in which scientists discovered how bees fly. The article goes into some minor detail on how a bee's flight is unique from other forms of flight, as well as the methods used to discover them. First off, good for them. I've always been a man of science, and I think the more we learn about the world around us, the better.

However, the article, as well as the researcher interviewed, use this opportunity to take a jab at the concept of Intelligent Design. Apparently, the fact that we can discover how something works is proof that it wasn't designed to work that way, but rather a product of evolution. Seriously, no other evidence of ID's failure was revealed, so I'm assuming that's their reasoning for dismissing it in the article.

No matter what side of the ID fence you sit on, no one should expect to be able to dismiss the concept with such a flacid retort, especially in the "Scientific Community". We expect facts, gentlemen, and we also want documented procedures so that we can verify your results. If you have a personal opinion about something, fine. That is your right. However, mixing your opinions into the facts of a scientific study only serves to cheapen your discovery.

Now that we have that out of the way, there is absolutely no reason that evolution and intelligent design have to be mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they work together surprisingly well. Ever play dominoes? Me neither. Instead, I always would stand them up on end, one after another, in interesting patterns until my supply of mass-produced monoliths expired. Then, with the flick of a wrist, they fell, one by one. Beautiful, elegant, and thoroughly planned out. I watched as my plan unfolded, one drop at a time. However, each domino would not have fallen without the one before it. It was a series of fortunate events, as it were, and the last domino would never have changed its' state ( from standing to fallen ) without the changes that came before it. It only became a fallen domino because of those changes. Almost sounds a little like...... evolution?

Here's a concept: What if, instead of setting up the universe to start in the year 1000BC or whatever, the Creator set us up, one by one, from the Big Bang through to the end, decided it was a good plan, and flicked his wrist? Would that not have the appearance of evolution? Would that not be planned? See how beautiful the concept is? Tired of my paragraph of questions?

Anyway, it's just a thought. A thought that, if the above were true, is just another domino falling in the chain. Maybe I can now claim to have been a member of a chain-gang. *BA-DOOM-CHING!*