GOD’S WORD FOR NOVEMBER 19 ~ ~ Psalm 81:16~ ~ “He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.”

Given the size of its brain, could a honeybee recognize a specific human face?

Researchers who study honeybee and human vision point out that there would have been no evolutionary pressure for bees to learn to recognize specific people. The scientific prediction would therefore be that bees would not recognize human faces. To test this prediction, researchers placed pictures of human faces above bee-feeders. The same human face was always above the feeder that dispensed a sugar solution. A variety of other faces were placed above feeders that dispensed, say, quinine, a bitter-tasting solution. The bees quickly learned to associate one particular human face with the sweet solution. Even when researchers shuffled the feeders around, the bees quickly homed in on the sugar feeder with the familiar face. Then they removed the feeders and left only the pictures for the bees to find. Eighty percent of the time, the bees still focused on the face that had been on the sugar feeder. Evolution would predict random results; that is, the pictures of faces would have no effect.

However, our powerful Creator could be expected to give bees any abilities He wished. In this case, He apparently saw a good purpose to give bees this unexpected ability. It is interesting to study creation and see what other qualities He put into each individual plant, animal, or even mineral, creation.

Jeremiah 10:12 ~ ~It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.”

But how much more has He put into mankind—whom He said was created in HIS image?!

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”

Mt 10:29-31 ~ ~ “Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.  But even the hairs of your head are all counted.  So do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.”

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