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Imagine the complexity involved for the colonie's development in evolution. The changes had to be based from a single queen. If you think about it, development was nearly entirely instinctual. In other words, the mutations occur mainly in animal instincts. In this manner, the entire colony or hive can be treated as a single entity in studying development. The queen had to have given birth to instinct driven servants, each with their own special uniqueness. The queen that bore ants that somehow knew to become bloated with juices, and hang on the cavern walls was the queen that was more likely to survive. (These ants would eventually die and become food.) Likewise, the queen that gave birth to ants that had the instincts to find leaves and chop them off was the colony that survived. This is truly complexing, and it is an example of how our inside systems (i.e.: immune system) became a unified group.
Diving into mutated instincts is a very very complicating subject.
Is that sorta why we have strange phobias? Common ones being fears of bugs and heights. These were beneficial to humans.
Social insects point to non-genetic origins of societies
Social structures form through group dynamics, not trait selection
The development of social systems is often assumed to be driven by species modifications arrived at through natural selection. Social characteristics such as caste systems and complex behaviors have been thought to be traits programmed by genes, created through evolutionary processes. Though insect social systems are in many ways as complex as human societies, Fewell contends that the relative simplicity of the insects themselves argues against the systems being created solely by the evolutionary development of biocomplexity in the individual organisms.
Though social networks are commonly thought of as evolutionary adaptations, Fewell turns this idea on its head by proposing that the network forms first, following the logic and pattern of group connections, then adaptation follows to strengthen the pattern. Social organization, seen in this light, is essentially an emergent property that comes from the network's geometry - a natural pattern to which organisms adapt.
Diving into mutated instincts is a very very complicating subject.
Is that sorta why we have strange phobias? Common ones being fears of bugs and heights. These were beneficial to humans.
I'm not a coward! I'm the pinacle of human evolution! H8 bugs!
My wife and I picked up a book on Biomimicry at the creation museum just recently.
It is a fascinating read, and a testament to God in nature.
Here's just one example of how it works from answers.com:
Originally Posted by Biomimicry
Imitating nature in man-made systems. One of the most notable examples is the Eastgate Center in Harare, Zimbabwe, a shopping center built in 1996 that was constructed using principles discovered in termite mounds in the desert. The termites maintain an almost perfectly uniform temperature for their food inside, even though outside temperatures range from near freezing at night to over 100 degrees (Fahrenheit) in the day. The even temperature is accomplished by continuously opening and closing a series of vents throughout the day. The Eastgate Center uses 10% of the energy of a traditional building to keep cool.
As God said:
Pr 6:6 ¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Pr 30:24 ¶ There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
We need to thank God for our scientists who discover these things in nature; making our lives better.
Pr 25:2 ¶ It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Notice here how the Bible equates [true] scientists with kings?
malevolent_milk_man posted in 2003, and his last post was 2005. You bought your book in 2010.
You are an odd lad.
__________________ I hear stories from the chamber / How Christ was born into a manger
And like some ragged stranger / Died upon the cross
And might I say it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade / Or at least that's what I'm told
--Mercy Seat, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
I remember when I was a kid they use to set up the Indian TeePee tents. In the winter you could build a fire and the smoke would go right out the top. In the summer they were cool because of a natural flow of air. Even today they want to harness the natural law of rising air to generate power or other energy.
__________________ The Bible is the greatest of all books;
to study it is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
“All religions, arts & sciences are branches of the same tree” Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" Einstein
"Both Religion and science require a belief in God." Max Planck
Why because he finds the current posts boring and he wants to go back and try to find something interesting to comment on?
__________________ The Bible is the greatest of all books;
to study it is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
“All religions, arts & sciences are branches of the same tree” Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" Einstein
"Both Religion and science require a belief in God." Max Planck
-- Bingo! 
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