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Bombardier beetle and intellegent design
Bombardier beetles are a family of ground beetles comprising over 500 individual species. When aggravated they have the ability to blast predators a noxious mix of chemicals from glands in their abdomen, hence the name 'Bombardier' beetle.
== Defense mechanism and intellegent design ==
So complex and exact is the defence mechanism of the bombardier, involving secretion of hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide in a 'reaction chamber' inside the very bowels of the beetle, that many creationists have championed the bug as being proof that evolutionary theory is a fallacy.
The individual components of the beetle's defence mechanism provide no evolutionary advantage by themselves. It is only when the system is implemented as a whole that the beetle can achieve a useful trait. <ref>Bomby the Bombardier Beetle, by Hazel Rue, ISBN 0-932766-13-7</ref>
Evolutionary theorists have attempted to argue that that evolution can account for these traits, but have so far consistantly failed. <ref>Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design by Mark Isaak, 1997</ref>
== Defense mechanism and intellegent design ==
So complex and exact is the defence mechanism of the bombardier, involving secretion of hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide in a 'reaction chamber' inside the very bowels of the beetle, that many creationists have championed the bug as being proof that evolutionary theory is a fallacy.
The individual components of the beetle's defence mechanism provide no evolutionary advantage by themselves. It is only when the system is implemented as a whole that the beetle can achieve a useful trait. <ref>Bomby the Bombardier Beetle, by Hazel Rue, ISBN 0-932766-13-7</ref>
Evolutionary theorists have attempted to argue that that evolution can account for these traits, but have so far consistantly failed. <ref>Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design by Mark Isaak, 1997</ref>