Bee Wise

By Mike L Anderson

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike L Anderson
• Release date: Jan 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310051524

Mike L Anderson

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

Book preview

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

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

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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

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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?