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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> |
| − | + | 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> | |
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Revision as of 11:15, March 22, 2007
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.[1]
Mainstream biologists have advanced evolutionary accounts of these traits. [2]
References
- ↑ Bomby the Bombardier Beetle, by Hazel Rue, ISBN 0-932766-13-7
- ↑ Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design by Mark Isaak, 1997