The acclaimed naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, made yet another compelling presentation that left me wondering if the processes by which he and his team arrive at their conclusions is as seriously compromised as it sounds to me… The termite. Sir Attenborough visited several termite colonies, the first in Australia and the last in Nigeria. With their mounds jutting out of the earth into the sky, the Australian variety build a mound that looks like a knife blade sticking out of the ground. The heel of the blade (the broad part) they ALWAYS position EAST/WEST. The spine and cutting edge they ALWAYS position NORTH/SOUTH, with the point faced upward. In the freezing morning temperatures, the rising sun quickly heats the heel positioned east and the termites work on that warm surface, evading the cold on the opposite heel. As the sun climbs towards its zenith, with temperatures soaring to blistering extremes, the termites escape to the cooler heel, avoiding the now uncomfortably hot one. By the time the sun is at its zenith, the point of the mound with a thin edge presents MINIMAL surface area on which the sun does VERY little heat damage. Result? The innards of the termite mound remain much cooler than the external, soaring temperatures. Come eventide, as temperatures plummet to the opposite extreme again, the sun heats up the westerly heel, keeping it comfortably warm as it did the easterly one in the morning. Through it all, the termites have moderate temperatures. Overnight, they recede below the ground where they await the morning cycle. A logical question then arises from this keen observation: next to the hopelessly miniscule size of an ant brain is a termite brain. When did termites learn the laws of physical science by accident so that they managed to survive over millions of years of temperature extremes on this earth without being either frozen or boiled into oblivion before getting it just right? Think, Sir Attenborough; THINK! The Nigerian termite mounds had an even more elaborate temperature stabilising system than that. They had a series of concentric earthen rings that they built below the ground within their mounds. Working much like the slats of a radiator grille or an air conditioning unit, convection airflow through the termite mound--also guided by the termites building hollows in their mounds that carry stale, humid air to the slats below the ground--condenses on the slats, the condensation producing an immediate cooling effect. The return flow of air then returns up the mound cooled, filtered and fresher. Sir Attenborough then mentioned how the heights of the mounds were phenomenally high. At their scale as termites, if human were to build a structure of similar size to THEIR scale, that structure would have to stand a mile (almost 1 620 METRES) high. Humans have yet to erect an architectural structure THAT high. I ask, again, did THAT come about for creatures SO miniscule BY ACCIDENT? My foot! I would like to clarify that I dont mean to insult Sir Attenboroughs ability to think. He is quite refined, dogged and thorough, in fact, as the painstaking research behind his videos has made me a permanent disciple. I just close my ears to his macroevolutionary asides. However, for a brain so fine, he deliberately stunts and stifles his thinking when it comes to the God question. Its a religio-political thing you see. It has nothing to do with scientific facts. Once again, I stand on Facebook to declare: if mankind had kept a working relationship with their Maker by remembering His Creator-status every seventh-day, there would be no infidel or macro-evolutionist. SEVEN!
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:29:20 +0000