Rom. 1:20

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Rom. 120
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EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

• I. BOMBARDIER BEETLES - more than 500 species
  altogether, defense mechanism - fire a mixture of
  chemicals from special glands in their posterior.
• Store hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide (others
  depending on the species). When they are
  threatened, the two chemicals are squirted
  through two tubes, where they are mixed along
  with small amounts of catalytic enzymes.
• These generate enough heat to bring the mixture
  up to 212 F and vaporize about a fifth of it.
  The boiling, foul-smelling liquid partially
  becomes a gas and is expelled with a loud popping
  sound.

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EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

• I. Bombardier Beetles
• Under pressure of the released gasses, a valve
  is forced closed, and the chemicals are expelled
  explosively through openings at the tip of the
  abdomen. Each time it does this it shoots about
  70 times very rapidly. The damage caused can be
  fatal to attacking insects and small creatures
  and is painful to human skin.

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EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

• II. DID THEY EVOLVE?
• Evolutionists offer step-by-step explanations for
  this how this could have evolved
• But only intelligent design can explain how a
  beetle can have the right chemicals, in the right
  places, mixed in the right way, and propelled at
  the right time and in direction.
• All these complicated details do not just happen
  by chance

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EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

• III. COMMENTS BY THE WORLD
• The defense spray of the bombardier beetle
  Stenaptinus insignis is ejected in quick pulses
  (at about 500 pulses per second) rather than a
  continuous stream. The ejection system of the
  beetle shows basic similarity to the pulse jet
  propulsion mechanism of the German V-1 buzz
  bomb of World War II. The abdominal tip acts as
  a revolvable turret that enables the beetles to
  aim the spray in all directions. as a pulsed
  jet, in analogy with fluid delivery systems known
  from technology but not from animal glands
  (Defensive Spray of the Bombardier Beetle A
  Biological Pulse Jet, Science, 2481219-1221,
  June 8. ).

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EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

• III. COMMENTS BY THE WORLD
• Its defense system is extraordinarily intricate,
  a cross between tear gas and a tommy gun. When
  the beetle senses danger, it internally mixes
  enzymes contained in one body chamber with
  concentrated solutions of some rather harmless
  compounds, hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones,
  confined to a second chamber. This generates a
  noxious spray of caustic benzoquinones, which
  explode from its body at a boiling 212F. What is
  more, the fluid is pumped through twin rear
  nozzles, which can be rotated like a B-17s gun
  turret, to hit a hungry ant or frog with
  bulls-eye accuracy (Drafting the Bombardier
  Beetle, (1985), Time Magazine, p. 70, February
  25.).

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EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

• CONCLUSION INTELLIGENT DESIGN
• DOES IT TAKE A DARWIN TO UNDERSTAND?
• On one occasion in 1828 he stripped bark from a
  dead tree and caught a rare beetle in each hand,
  then saw another new species. With the habits of
  an egg collector, he popped the beetle from his
  right hand into his mouth and grabbed the other
  with his free hand. The beetle which he had
  placed in his mouth, likely a bombardier beetle,
  "ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt
  his tongue," forcing him to spit it out he
  lost the beetle, as well as the third one.

GOD GIVES EVIDENCE (ROM. 118-21)!
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