So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.