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You know enough to cringe when you hear agency bestowed upon mindless processes (mindless added for NRs benefit)
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I don't cringe when anthropomorphism dominates evolutionist literature. I love it. I especially love the way mindless evolution designs complicated mechanisms when the genius of man can't even understand how. Chance beats purpose every time.
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If you understood it, you might discover that the world is actually more wondrous, not less, without the petty homosexual slayer and child drowner interpretation that you put on God.
Evolution doesn't design anything. A trillion trillion trillion trials parallel trials performed over billions of years will gradually select for the fittest in ways incomprehensible to the human mind. You really do your God a disservice - his majesty is far greater as a creator and nurturer of a vast cosmic experiment than as homoslayer, the creator of Super Special NotReady on his Super Special Earth. Do you see why?
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As for the OP - I'm not sure why insect freezing is so amazing. They do have brains and nerves centers. The ant story is quite interesting - there are probably simple triggers. It reminds me of
toxoplasmosis which causes mice to lose their fear of cats and seek out cat urine, which is advantageous to the parasite breeding cycle. They infect human brains too - a scary read. I guess homoslayer thought that was a good idea?