Bee Wise

You have to move home. You only have a few days to do it. There are a dozen places to choose from and you have six criteria to consider. Oh, and your ten thousand kids all have to agree. Good luck. Honey bees have to solve this kind of problem routinely. If they don't get it right the colony may well perish. We need them to get it right because they are God's instruments in providing us with almost a third of our food crops through pollination. How do such little creatures manage this? The answer is such a wonder that you may well have great difficulty believing me. However, researchers have very thoroughly and laboriously investigated the matter. So, what I tell you is sober fact. Bees have evolved a strategy over many millions of years of evolution that enables them that to get around their limitations and solve problems that are just too complex for them to crack individually. And, as we shall see, they do it in a quite remarkable way. God, in his wisdom and humility, used a similar strategy with Jesus on the cross. Could we learn something from God and his bees about how to deal with such complex problems as climate change? This book shows that we can and how we can. Mike L Anderson, PhD (Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology). Mike develops educational resources and software and plays Starcraft.