Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Bee Wise
    Bee Wise
    Bee Wise
    Ebook44 pages47 minutes

    Bee Wise

    By Mike L Anderson

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike L Anderson
    Release dateJan 23, 2014
    ISBN9781310051524
    Bee Wise
    Author

    Mike L Anderson

    Mike L Anderson, PhD (Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology). Mike develops educational resources and software and plays Starcraft.

    Read more from Mike L Anderson

    Related to Bee Wise

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      What Slime Knows

      Aug 27, 2021

      What Slime Knows
      12 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      May The Force Be With You

      Jan 2, 2019

      May The Force Be With You
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew): All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event.

      Sep 4, 2014

      At first glance, a tree could not be more different from the caterpillars that eat its leaves, the mushrooms sprouting from its bark, the grass growing by its trunk, or the humans canoodling under its shade. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Zo

      14 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How Does Photosynthesis Work?

      Apr 13, 2022

      How Does Photosynthesis Work?
      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Fern FEVER

      Jan 27, 2021

      Fern FEVER
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Scientists Have No Defense Against Awe

      Jun 12, 2016

      Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, hinted at the complexity of the relationship between science and the soul in a recent essay: “We need scientists who recognize the reality of this illusion we st

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew): All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event.

      Feb 6, 2014

      At first glance, a tree could not be more different from the caterpillars that eat its leaves, the mushrooms sprouting from its bark, the grass growing by its trunk, or the humans canoodling under its shade. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Zo

      14 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      For The Love Of Spiders

      Mar 2, 2024

      Many of us have seen friends or family react to a spider with shrieking, foot-stomping panic — we may have even been that person. But what threat does a spider pose to a comparatively huge human? Is this fear reasonable, especially in a spider-filled

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How Evolution Designed Your Fear

      Oct 26, 2017

      The most effective monsters of horror fiction mirror ancestral dangers to exploit evolved human fears. Some fears are universal, some are near-universal, and some are local. The local fears—the idiosyncratic phobias such as the phobia of moths, say—t

      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      When Evolution Misses The Mark

      Jan 11, 2024

      When Evolution Misses The Mark
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Your Questions Answered

      Sep 17, 2024

      Your Questions Answered
      14 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Spiders: More Bluff Than Bite

      Mar 4, 2019

      Spiders: More Bluff Than Bite
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Meet the Mould Master

      Jul 29, 2021

      Meet the Mould Master
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Secrets Of Skin

      Dec 27, 2019

      The Secrets Of Skin
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Masters of Some

      Jun 9, 2021

      Masters of Some
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Gillian Burke

      Oct 21, 2021

      Gillian Burke
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Helpful Animals

      Jun 14, 2024

      Helpful Animals
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How Intelligent Could Life Be Without Natural Selection?

      Mar 17, 2021

      I could stridently insist that natural selection is the only way that complex life can evolve, but that’s not strictly true. We can already design computers that can learn and reason and—almost—convince an observer that their behavior might be human.

      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Survival Of The Cutest

      Dec 12, 2024

      Survival Of The Cutest
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Spiritual Consciousness of Christof Koch

      Oct 13, 2021

      Consciousness is a thriving industry. It’s not just the meditation retreats and ayahuasca shamans. Or the conferences with a heady mix of philosophers, quantum physicists, and Buddhist monks. Consciousness is a buzzing business in neuroscience labs a

      16 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

      Sep 30, 2020

      Last week, biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake introduced Nautilus readers to Paul Stamets, a mycologist who preaches that mushrooms can save the world. “Give him an insoluble problem and he’ll toss you a new way it can be decomposed, poisoned, or

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Bee Wise

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Bee Wise - Mike L Anderson

      What a treat to find an interesting, intelligible piece of writing that is free of jargon that addresses the nexus of Science and Faith. Mike Anderson’s piece on the Wisdom of Bees is both scientifically and philosophically sound and interesting: it deserves to be widely read by persons of faith struggling to come to terms with the apparent chaos in modern political systems that do not have an appropriate logic for relying on the advice of experts. I recommend Bee Wise wholeheartedly.

      Richard Fuggle, Emeritus Professor, Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town

      Bee Wise:

      How honeybee decision-making principles can help us manage the misinformation explosion

      Mike L Anderson

      Published by Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Mike L Anderson

      ISBN 9781310051524

      Discover other titles by Mike L Anderson at Smashwords.com

      http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mikelanderson

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Unless otherwise stated, quotations from the Bible are taken from Holy Bible: New International Version, Copyright © 1978 by the International Bible Society, New York.

      Cover photograph: by Heike Frohnhoff

      To conserve trees, please try to avoid printing this document.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to all my prayer and financial supporters.

      Acknowledgements

      A big thank-you to the editors, Dr Andrew Potts and Rachel Anderson

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Chapter 2: Principles of bee wisdom

      Chapter 3: The human swarm and climate change

      Chapter 4: The anatomy of folly

      Chapter 5: Wisdom personified

      About the author

      Other titles by Mike L Anderson at Smashwords.com

      Notes

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      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 without even a second thought?

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1