[asa] YEC and the vanilla bean

The other day I was watching a young earth creationist video. They were
talking about God's design in nature- how the vanilla bean needs a
special bee in order to survive. No bee, no bean. However, they didn't
mention how this would have happened after a flood wiped out the plant.
Was there a bee and plant on the ark? And these got to Latin America
where the vanilla bean was discovered?

More info on the bean and bee:

http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/mexican-vanilla-beans

Vanilla is native to the Latin American ithsmus, where it has been
culitvated and used as both flavoring and currency for centuries.
Although vanilla beans are grown in several locations today, until the
1800's Mexico maintained a monopoly on vanilla beans in spite of the
fact that explorers constantly uprooted the orchid vines to replant in
their native lands. Botanists finally came to realize that the melipone
bees, native only to Mexico, were pollinating the flowers. Eventually, a
man on the island of Reunion discovered that the pointed stick of a
bamboo shoot could be used to hand-pollinate the flowers. Once this was
discovered, the French planted vanilla on many of the tropical islands
they ruled. To this day, former French colonies within about 25 degrees
of the equator (which enjoy warm, tropical climates) produce about 80%
of the world's vanilla.

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Received on Tue Jun 3 17:23:50 2008