Saturday 15 September 2012
Bombardier Beetle Outwits Enemies With Its Chemical Cannon
Bombardier Beetle, Brachininae sp. Image courtesy of Patrick Coin, Wikipedia.
Joel Kontinen
Evolutionists have attempted to explain away the origin of the Bombardier Beetle’s defence mechanism with a just-so story that can never be verified. When threatened by a predator, the beetle squirts hot (100 °C or 212 °F) fluid at the attacker. It makes the fluid from hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones.
Irreducible complexity is a much better and more logical explanation of this chemical cannon than a step-wise Darwinian process.
ICR posted a brief video of the Bombardier Beetle. You can watch it here.