If you want to learn about the monarch butterfly for free, you can find pertinent material on a venue free of evolutionistic pseudoscience; you have only to search links available on JW.ORG. For example, there is this one:
And there are other references to the intelligently designed monarch butterfly in material produced by Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Pertinent references are: "Life--How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or By Creation?" (p. 166); "Awake!" (December 22, 1978, pp. 24-6).
JW.ORG's materials clearly identify what another venue has called "transcendent intelligence." The real referent for that phrase is Jehovah, the God of the Bible, because His is the "transcendent intelligence" manifested in 'intelligently designed/created' life forms. The concern of some publishing institution -- but not JW.ORG -- is that it not be challenged by credible argument that its materials are openly "Christian" or "Biblical," for if that can be successfully argued, then a non-profit, religious academy that uses it -- uses it instead of using material that endorses evolutionism -- might be liable to having its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS.
In fact, the IRS has recently become much less tolerant of any tax-exempt institution that would, in the opinion of the IRS, teach something that, as the argument goes, leads readers/students to identify with the Republican party. Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is apolitical; it endorses no political party / political philosophy. Therefore, we Jehovah's Witnesses ought not to come under the kind of scrutiny that the IRS on June 21, 2021 stated was its concern for a certain religious institution's policies. We read this:
"The Internal Revenue Service denied a Christian nonprofit group tax-exempt status because the Bible’s “teachings are typically affiliated with” the GOP and its candidates.
“Specifically, you educate Christians on what the Bible says in areas where they can be instrumental including the areas of sanctity of life, the definition of marriage, biblical justice, freedom of speech, defense, and borders and immigration, U.S. and Israel relations,” read a letter from IRS Exempt Organizations Director Stephen Martin to Christians Engaged, a nonprofit group seeking tax-exempt status. “The Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the [Republican Party] and candidates. This disqualifies you from exemption under IRC Section 501(c)(3).”
[IRS denies tax-exempt status to Christian nonprofit group because ‘Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican Party’](https://news.yahoo.com/irs-denies-tax-exempt-status...)
There are no political motivations behind any of the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses. (However, we do not hesitate to show from the Bible what the God of the Bible has put in His Word (the Bible) that condemns homosexuality and elective abortion.) Bible study aids used by Jehovah's Witnesses give reasonable argument in support of the contention that intelligent design informs nature, and all of those Bible study aids are free of any political agenda; they are free of any endorsement of any political party or political philosophy. Those Bible study aids do, however, fearlessly, straightforwardly, and publicly identify that which another venue -- one not associated with Jehovah's Witnesses -- merely (namelessly) referred to as a "transcendent intelligence": the Bible study aids we use show from the Bible that that "transcendent intelligence" is a person, the Supreme Being who is the only Creator, the God of the Bible, whose name is Jehovah.
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