Robert Deyes

Each year about 100 million Monarch butterflies from Canada and northeastern United States make their journey to the Mexican Sierra Madre mountains in an astonishing two-month long migration (Ref 1).  They fly 2500 miles to a remote area that is only 60 square miles in size (Ref 1).  No one fully understands what triggers this mass movement of Lepidopterans.  But there is no getting away from the fact that this is a phenomenon that, as one review summed up, “staggers the mind”, especially when one considers that these butterflies are freshly-hatched (Ref 1).  In short, Monarch migrants are always “on their maiden voyage” (Ref 2).  The location they fly to is home to a forest of broad-trunked trees that effectively Read More ›

The Cambrian Explosion, what a commotion, for long-established theories on how things should occur. Sudden emergence, animal insurgence, novel parts and body plans, no ancestry we’re sure. Five fifty million years ago, a faunal troupe did truly show, what all the fossil experts know, “Biology’s Big Bang”. No intermediates came before, a true explosion to the core, those trilobites we can’t ignore, a self-assertive gang. With all the complex novelty, of body plan disparity, with legs to walk and eyes to see exquisitely designed. From what we know we can infer, a mindful manufacturer, from what we’ve seen we can concur, intelligent the mind. Intelligent the mind that made, this ‘multi-cell’lar’ cavalcade, so unperturbed and clearly laid, all so that Read More ›