Some animals have
elaborate
mating rituals. Why would they have evolved this complicated unnecessary
reproductive
trait?
Other animals just do it! Why is there a mating season for animals? Why
not for humans? What were the evolutionary
processes that removed this in homo sapiens.(humans).lineage,
yet retained this in animals?
Flies:.Insects
comprise 90% of animal species and 10 billion of them occupy each square
kilometer.(2.6
square kilometers in a square mile, so 26 billion in a square mile).of
land on Earth.
Insects are the only invertebrates
with the ability to fly. Some insects survive only one summer. Others come
back the following year.
In experiments with flies,
the cells were exactly the same number, though they were able to produce
a fly at one half the usual size.."Everything
was in perfect proportion, just smaller".says
Thomas.
How is it that the cells 'sense' the total mass? Is there built
in programming in each cell undetected by present observational means?
Compared with an insect,
such as the
dragonfly, or a
bat, the airplane is a simple study in aerodynamics. Dragonflies and
flies.(houseflies).have
an impressive aerodynamic ability to maneuver.
The common housefly can fly
backwards and land upside down.(and
even can use its wings to do the backstroke in your bowl of soup, happened
to me more than once; those yucky things
are remarkable all right,
ha ha! Yes, I ditched the soup and it was hard, being of Scottish descent,
but I did it cause I heard these bothersome pests poop anywhere and everytime
they land on anything and even several times a minute).
"The common housefly utilizes
wing movements beyond the scope of aerodynamics to explain. This fly has
the remarkable ability to recapture energy lost to the air. It does this
by flapping its wings forward, then flipping them over so the leading edge
points to the rear before flapping them back."....Michael
Berkinson, University of California. Their flight is different from other
fliers in that it involves a sculling
motion similar to rowing a boat, where other fliers use straight flapping.(one
exception is the hummingbird {a possible why?}).
The Biomechanics of Insect
Flight.(aerodynamics
and ergonomics
of moving through the air).by
Robert Dudley, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691044309, can give you
everything you may have wondered about regarding insect flight.
And you thought your hard
drive was fast!.(*)
Flight just
did not occur once in the fossil record. There are 4 different fliers:
reptiles, as represented by pterodactyls, modern birds, mammals, as represented
by the bat and, flying insects. There are too many different characteristics
for all of these to come from a common ancestor. In fact, even within the
Brine fly family there are vast differences.
The designing mind behind
it all appears to be light years beyond our ability to figure it all out,
confounding
us as we examine the designs He makes work the way He wants, but we're
trying.
The odds
of evolution alone having occurred make evolution an absolute,
complete and irrevocable statistical
impossibility and odds of parallel.(side
by side).evolution
occurring
defy
description and move further into the absurd.realm!
The insects inhabiting ponds
have eyes that come with built in polarization to block the glare of the
Sun.
"Mayflies are unusual in
being the only insects that molt after
forming functional wings."....The
Amber Forest, page 93.
If you ever get a chance
to see a fruitfly under an electron microscope, you'll be amazed at the
design and you'll also understand why a decision to adhere
to something can often preclude
information to the contrary and in the case of evolution, adherence requires
blind
faith to remain within that decision.
Tardigrades:.Tardigrades
are one of the things contributing to evolution's funk.
This little animal can float in clouds all the way around the world. These
mites
can shrug off lethal radiation, survive 100 degrees Celsius down to
absolute
zero, survive in a vacuum, endure pressures nearly six times that of
the deepest ocean trench and go without water for more than a century!
How can an animal completely shut down its metabolism,
yet retain cellular structure? This is what the tardigrades do! And they
do it by losing most water they have in their bodies and using a sugar
called trehalose to stabilize their cellular structure.
Attempting to answer all
the possible questions these little animals elicit,
is like trying to answer by conjecture,
the question, Is there such a thing as nothing?
If evolution be true, why
weren't these characteristics passed on to all animals? Surely it's a 'survival
of the fittest' trait worthy of being passed on! No. Instead this little
animal is reductio
ad absurdum to evolution.
