1/18/01
One should also look at how this strange story arose. It came from a guy who
did a back of the envelope calculation and the biologist spread the false
story that he had proven that the bee couldn't fly. All the guy had really
proven was that his math was too simple.
see http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_3_31.html
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of Arthur V. Chadwick
>Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 5:11 AM
>To: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Can bumblebees fly?
>
>
>For many years the creationist foklore has maintained that theoretically,
>bumblebees should not be able to fly, as an evidence for a
>designer. Aside from
>the inconsistencies of the premise, pointed out by numerous
>evolutionists as
>well as creationists, the issue of whether insects (and not just
>bumblebees)
>should be able to fly is based upon comparisons between insects
>and fixed wing
>or rotor winged aircraft. Modeling studies have indeed suggested
>insects should
>not be able to fly. Of course, the problems were in the science,
>not inthe
>insects, and a study recently published gives the amazing details
>of what we
>have learned about insect flight in the past 5 years. The article
>can be seen
>at http://physicstoday.org/pt/vol-53/iss-12/p22.html. While there
>are still
>issues that are not understood, enough progress has been made so
>that you can be
>assured that bumblebees can indeed fly.
>
>Art
>http://geology.swau.edu
>
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