This was a most excellent hike in which we talked about all manner
of things. During a discussion about Intelligent Design, I made a pretty
cool observation about the Leaf Cutter ant conundrum.
Leaf Cutter ants chew the leaves into a paste and use it to grow fungus
for food. The argument for Intelligent Design says 'How did the ants
learn to do this? Why don't ants learn to grow other things?' And this
is proof that life was created and evolution guided by an intelligence
and not some product of random happenstance.
I had a brilliant insight: Of course we only see the Leaf Cutter ants
- What happened to the ants that tried to grow other crops - rubber
trees, for example? They died out. Everyone knows an ant can't move
a rubber tree plant.
Man, sometimes I am so smart I make my head hurt.
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