Honey Bee Polka

"Honey bee dancing, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of their biology, is also one of the most fascinating behaviors in animal life. Performed by a worker bee that has returned to the honey comb with pollen or nectar, the dances, in essence, constitute a language that “tells” other workers where the food is. By signaling both distance and direction with particular movements, the worker bee uses the dance language to recruit and direct other workers in gathering pollen and nectar. " From the net

I like to watch the different science channels, Discovery, Smithsonian, etc.  However that requires I wade through all the religious indoctrination of Mr. Darwin and his ilk.  Time and time again we hear how this evolved and that evolved over zillions of years to be what it is today, and isn't that amazing?   Expert scientists attest to the complex way that nature has ordered herself, all with no master at the helm...just monkeys at a keyboard with time on their hands.

More a matter of the heart than of intellect, denying God as the creator and master of creation allows one to operate detached from any compulsion to a God and His will.  If you accept there is a God, then it stands to reason that one should find out what He wants from you....why you exist at all.  If He has rules, you would then have to consider the fact that you are not living by them, therefore, you are, in the end, accountable to that God.

Can't have that.  Darwin and the Science Channel make no such demands of moral accountability.

So all this occurred to me as I was looking at a honey bee on the ground outside of work.  There are commercial hives near there and there are thousands of bees flying to and fro getting the honey-dos done.  I thought of how that bee finds a flower and brings that message to the waiting colony back at 'Da' Hive'.  And I wondered...if these bees took millions of years to figure this out, how did the first bees do it?

For example:

Millions of years ago, bee number 12 comes back to the hive after striking it rich juuust over the next hill.  He points to the hill, but no one can see anything, so they are less than excited about it.  He thinks about doing the bee mime act.  Marcel Marceau Bee gives it a shot and only conveys the impression that he is behind an invisible door, pulling on a rope no one can see.  If only he had white bee gloves.

A few thousand years later, another bee comes to the same situation and, still having no white gloves or little French hat, comes up with the dance idea.  Unfortunately he is a lousy dancer and lacking any sense of rhythm, he cannot for the life of him make anything coherent out of it. He feels embarrassed and vows never to go to the prom where this horror would be relived in front of his peers.

How about if the bee is like my wife and cannot remember the names of any streets or roads?  She can get ya' there, but only if she drives.  How does that fit in?

Or maybe the bee has a lousy sense of direction and while he can dance like Fred Astaire with a road map in his hand, he mistakenly wiggles his butt North, when he wanted to point South.  An entire squadron of bees is never heard from again as they fly off to their doom.  I have a friend like that...cannot hit his 'south' end with both hands.  Sad.

Or how about this.  God, the creator of the the bee, the flower, the earth, the universe...He gave the bee what it needed just like He gave the flower, the earth, and the universe what it needed, right from the beginning.

No dancing lessons required.

Romans 1:20 (New International Version)

²⁰For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.