The Bombadier Beetle

ames

i usually primarily copy and paste from different sources and add some words (or sometimes remove some technical parts) to make it more readable to the Yeshiva world, but completely based on one or more sources. i got in the habit of doing this and sending out the best ones to my Rav and a few other interested parties. it grew out of Seudah Shlesis discussions about Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tz’l.

you know the Chovos HaLevovos states that this is one of two ways of coming closer to Hashem and developing a high level of Emunah, the other is Torah. Avrohom Aveinu, as you know, utilized this first method, and saw the second method within it.

Hashem made the Briah with its BILLIONS of wonders for us to utilize. shall we ignore his will and kindness?

in many regards (not all, certainly not for direct Schar) it is equal to learning Torah

(the Gemorrah you might know about not stopping learning to appreciate the trees outdoors, which you might bring as a contradiction, referred to taking pleasure from the trees, not studying them)

thank you ames

i also got a bit of chills reading your story.

R’ Miller zt’l, though i never saw or met him, i feel like he is my father and Rebbe.

had a PROFOUND influence on me

by the way, the first year or so that i listened to his tapes i assumed he was about 6 feet tall and 300 pounds

zero

mr “educated in science”

how completely absurd

it is a famously discredited and futile attempt to restore a bit of credibility to “evolution” .wherever you copied it from, it is desperately all over the internet.

“small invaginations develop” they just “develop” what function did these invaginations serve untli the beetle “learned to wiggle”? how did it learn to wiggle? how many cosmic rays and birth defects did it take until the beetles central nervous system was reorganized so that it should wiggle? do you think the beetle “figured out” how to wiggle, then teaches this wiggling to its larvae? how did this occur without damaging the preexisting perfectly functioning neurological organization? after a million years of reorganization, how was it reorganized further to wiggle only when certain predators were recognized? (we dont want the wiggling to deplete its store of toxins when no predators are present.) after it learned to wiggle when predators were present, how many more millions of years were needed for the brilliant mother evolution to teach it that it should only wiggle when the predator is a certain distance? too far and its a waste, too close and its too late. and how many more birth defects did it take until it could wiggle in the direction of the predator? what good were the invaginations when the toxin was distributed over its skin? how did the surface of the invaginations learn to make more of the toxin to fill the invagination? if the skin toxins were effective why did they stop making them?

none of the components of this complex system can function without the others.

invaginations happened

invaginations deepen

muscles move

some invaginations deepen

some disappear

cells develop

channels appear

muscles move some more

no intelligence is directing this

nothing but randomness.

nothing of consequence is said

your “proposed scenario is almost as full of holes as the evolution fantasy itself.

here is how a mousetrap is made when a tornado travels through a junkyard:

a piece of wood appears

a nail is bent by the wind pushing it against a pipe (pipes and nails are common in a junkyard) the wind then pushes the point of the nail into the piece of wood

a spring is forced from a childs toy

the spring has pointed ends and is stuck in the wood across from the nail

the spring is attached to a firm metal wire which was previously bent by the wind…i havent got any more time for this nonsense

the basic reason for the creation of the World is for Bechira, so that we may choose Good over Evil, and thus justly receive Reward.

this requires a delicate balance in the World.

thus when the Yetzer HaRah for Avodah Zorah was “schected”, Nvius also ended.

thus Good must be balanced by Evil

Emes in the world must be balanced by Sheker in the world

clear vision must be balanced by illusion

Light must be balanced by the potential for darkness

spiritual light by spiritual darkness

The Torah must be balanced by the views of the Nations

thank you, zero, for keeping us balanced.

invaginations happen

muscles move

the beetle learns to wiggle

cells move

cells appear

chemicals appear

walls get thicker

abdomen elongates

lots of other stuff happens, lots

A mixture of these two chemicals in the presence of the two enzymes in a confined space is explosive. The beetle, on his way to becoming a bombardier beetle, would have to be smart enough to carefully store the chemicals in a storage chamber apart from the enzymes but in the presence of an inhibitor to prevent them from reacting prematurely with one another. He also would have to be smart enough to know which enzymes he needs to catalyze the chemical reactions involved, and he would have to be smart enough to secrete them into the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber itself must be very special, able to resist the corrosive effect of the hot, irritating chemicals and strong enough to contain the high pressure without rupturing. The combustion chamber must also be equipped with a highly efficient valve, and the appropriate muscles must exist to manipulate the combustion tube and point it in the right direction. Of course, all of this incredibly complex apparatus would be totally useless without a precisely designed and perfectly functional communication system to squirt the charge of chemicals into the combustion tube, secrete the enzymes into the combustion tube, activate the valve at the appropriate moment, and differentially and precisely send the correct signals to all of the different muscles involved, in order to point the combustion tube in the right direction. Evolutionists would have us believe that all of the thousands of genes required to direct the construction and operation of all of this arose through a series of copying errors. Furthermore, these complex genetic changes had to occur in just the right order, so that at every stage of development the beetle was not only able to survive but also was actually superior to the preceding stage.

This notion is more than scientifically untenable; it is simply preposterous, but those with their rock hard faith will continue to squirm and wiggle and turn logic on its head to provide “answers”

this is nothing new. the Torah has been attacked with “logic” since the greek “philosophers” and beyond.

we know the Torah will endure all these attacks, and fools in the guise of wise professors will be seen to be what they are.

ames

i dont know if its a bigger miracle or not, i think its the same thing, and appreciation of the Boreh’s kindness should be the same for both. but this appreciation, that is what is greater when it is recognized during health than after a recovery from illness.

ok sj

i misunderstood you!

rabbi yes check Ramchal again

Hashem did NOT program miracles into the Briah, only specific ones that were created Bain HaShmoshos the first Erev Shabbos. i believe when Yehoshua stopped the sun this was one of them (not positive) this is a famous Medresh. the rest of your misconceptions i already discussed.

Pirke Avos 5:6 states: “Ten things were created Erev Shabbos bein hashmashos”:

1.The opening of the earth that swallowed Korach and his followers.

2.the well that opened when Moshe hit the rock.

3.the mouth of Bilaam’s donkey that enabled it to speak).

4.the first rainbow, during Noach’s time.

5.the mann.

6.Moshe’s staff.

7.the shamir

8.the shapes of the letters.

9.the original writing implement used in writing the Aseres Dibros

10.the original stone tablets