Rare orchids featuring pictures and figures

6 Replies to “Rare orchids featuring pictures and figures”

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   wd400 says:

   April 10, 2014 at 10:17 am

   The usual Darwinesque explanation is that natural selection acting on random mutation causes them to slowly assume this form because even five percent of it would scare off a predator. Really?

   No, not really. Has anyone ever made this claim?
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   bornagain77 says:

   April 10, 2014 at 1:54 pm

   That’s right wd400, you tell her. If people don’t like the first Darwinian alibi there is always another alibi waiting! 🙂

   “nobody to date has yet found a demarcation criterion according to which Darwin(ism) can be described as scientific”
   – Imre Lakatos (November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) a philosopher of mathematics and science, quote was as stated in 1973 LSE Scientific Method Lecture
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   Chalciss says:

   April 10, 2014 at 3:15 pm

   Although, Darwinists find a striking resemblance to the hominids when they look at themselves in the mirror.

   Who would have thought that orchids had a similar fixation on the ape family? We should call them – Darwinist orchids, perhaps? 😉
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   bornagain77 says:

   April 10, 2014 at 5:37 pm

   Of related note:

   Honey Bee – an Architectural Marvel – video
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rfbxqucz-s

   SECRETS OF BEES
   Excerpt: Freight planes carry a payload of about 25 percent of their weight. A bee can carry almost 100 per cent.
   http://beehive.org.nz/stories/bee-secrets

   TEDx Video: Flight of the Fruit Fly – October 8, 2013
   Excerpt: “Dickinson is a very intense guy himself, and gives a remarkable discussion of what makes the engineering that goes into fruit fly flight so amazing.” (4:50 minute mark of video lists several fascinating high tech ‘accessories’ of the fruit fly, including a ‘gyroscope’)
   http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....77641.html

   Fruit fly with the wings of beauty – July 2012
   Excerpt: But a closer examination of the transparent wings of Goniurellia tridens reveals a piece of,, art. Each wing carries a precisely detailed image of an ant-like insect, complete with six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen.
   http://www.thenational.ae/news.....-of-beauty

   Look at This Incredible Insect Wing Design – Cornelius Hunter – May 17, 2013
   Excerpt: And so using this rational, mathematical, approach to biology the researchers were able to do something that consistently eludes evolutionists—produce a successful prediction:
   “An optimal cell size of a grid-like structure such as the wing can be predicted using the “critical crack length” of the membrane, which is determined by the material’s fracture toughness and the stress applied. … An “optimal” wing cell should have a diameter of around 1132 µm. Is this the case in locust wings? Our results show that the distribution of the wing cell size in locust wings corresponds very well to this prediction, with the most common wing-cell “class” being between 1000 and 1100 µm.”
   http://darwins-god.blogspot.co.....-wing.html

   Ants follow Fermat’s principle of least time – April 1, 2013
   Excerpt: Ants have long been known to choose the shortest of several routes to a food source, but what happens when the shortest route is not the fastest? This situation can occur, for example, when ants are forced to travel on two different surfaces, where they can walk faster on one surface than on the other. In a new study, scientists have found that ants behave the same way as light does when traveling through different media: both paths obey Fermat’s principle of least time, taking the fastest route rather than the most direct one.
   http://phys.org/news/2013-04-a.....ciple.html

   Hammer Orchid and Wasps – video
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4n85-SqxQ

   Wild Orchids of Israel: Seduction of the Long-horned Bee (Irreducible Complexity) – video
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFftHXbjEQA
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   bornagain77 says:

   April 10, 2014 at 5:37 pm

   Irreducible Complexity (18 steps) of the Venus Flytrap are listed in the following article:

   The Venus Flytrap, an Improbable Wonder that Baffled Darwin – Oct. 14, 2013
   http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....77891.html

   Desmodium Gyrans – The Dancing Plant – video
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fIKlcCbSU

   Mimosa Pudica – The Sensitive Plant (Touch Me Not) – video
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTcVNyOhUc

   Timelapse video of Flowers and Leaves – video
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/li.....t#p00lxwrh

   Plant Talk – Plants communicate and interact with each other, both above ground and below, in surprisingly subtle and sophisticated ways. By Dan Cossins – January 1, 2014
   Excerpt: Moreover, plants can “talk” in several different ways: via airborne chemicals, soluble compounds exchanged by roots and networks of threadlike fungi, and perhaps even ultrasonic sounds. Plants, it seems, have a social life that scientists are just beginning to understand.,,,
   ,,,the evolutionary explanation for volatile communication among plants remains open to debate,,,
   http://www.the-scientist.com/?.....lant-Talk/

   Adventures of an adolescent Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus Coronatus) – video
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_jwfKyxBrc

   Orchid Mantis – very pink, and eerie, adult female – video
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdp9GmwehGY

   Verse and Music:

   Mark 1:6
   John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

   “Cassie” -By Flyleaf
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwJIW-6bTt0
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   bornagain77 says:

   April 10, 2014 at 5:42 pm

   Flyleaf: Cassie (Music Video AND lyrics :])
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhA6bJ1SIHo