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== Defense mechanism and intellegent design ==

== 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.

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.<ref>Bomby the Bombardier Beetle, by Hazel Rue, ISBN 0-932766-13-7</ref>

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>

Mainstream biologists have advanced evolutionary accounts of these traits. <ref>[http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design by Mark Isaak, 1997]</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> Bombardier beetles were [[creation|created]] about 4000 BC by [[God]].

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