Creation Station
Amazing Animals
Bombardier Beetle - God's Chemical Warriors
One
of the most fascinating creatures in nature is the bombardier beetle.
Only about an inch long, it has the ability to defend itself by
spraying a super hot stinky chemical mixture into the face of a
potential attacker. What is amazing about this ability is the sheer
complexity of the biological machinery needed to make it happen.
The bombardier beetle has two chambers that hold the
chemicals hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide. When a
beetle feels threatened the chemicals are pumped into a reservoir where
catalases and peroxidases are mixed in. As these chemicals mix in the
reservoir, oxygen is released and the mixture generates enough heat to
bring it to the boiling point and vaporize some of it. This super hot
mixture is then expelled explosively through openings in the beetle's
abdomen.
What happens inside the bombardier beetle is what is known as a binary
chemical reaction. This simply means that separately the chemicals are
harmless, but when mixed together they form a dangerous chemical
compound. Human chemists only came up with this process as a weapon a
few years ago; God created it a long time ago.
In an article Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design by
evolutionist Mark Isaak, Isaak argues that the features of the beetle
could have evolved slowly by random chance. He lists a 15-step scenario
of changes he says could have happened to produce the complex
biological machinery of the beetle. What is most interesting about his
15-page article is that he never explains how the increased information
necessary for the changes to happen could have happened in a completely
unplanned manner, but in such a way as to perfectly balance the
chemicals and forces involved. The argument for design is simply this,
the complex information necessary to bring about the design and order
we see in Creation cannot simply arise by itself. Just as a book cannot
write itself, it must come from a higher source, the author, so too the
information that is in the many complex biological organisms in nature
cannot create themselves, they must come from a higher source, God.
Evolutionists routinely claim that if they can invent a story that
sounds plausible to them, and they have very low standards of
plausibility, they have then solved the problem of how an organism or
organ would have evolved. But storytelling is not science. Mutations
are the only thing that evolutionists can point to as engines of real
change. What evolutionists never explain is how mutations, which can
only rearrange or degrade genetic information, can bring about an
increase in information, the kind of increase in information that would
be absolutely necessary for new organisms to evolve.
What we see in the bombardier beetle is clear evidence of God's design in His Creation.
