Debate rages about whether there is ‘design’ in nature, or if the teaching of intelligent design is even ‘science’. However, the best robotics engineers have yet to design a navigation program as good as a bee’s and run it on a chip with the energy efficiency of a bee’s brain. So it’s reasonable to believe that the honeybee was designed by a Master Programmer whose intelligence is beyond our own.

Written by Dr Jonathan Sarfati
Originally published March, 2003

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Original article: Can it Bee?

Robot designers want to copy the hummingbird

Bees’ guidance strategy for avoiding crash landings

Honey

A sweet revelation

Brainy bees?

Bees outsmart supercomputers

How bees decide

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