Distance-responsive genes found in dancing honey bees

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00622.x/full

Distance-responsive genes found in dancing honey bees

The link above is to an article that its authors would hardly acknowledge does the following thing in their discussion of the honey bee genome: in effect, the article shows that there is descriptive modeling of genetically programmed honey bee behaviors that are mathematically sensible/presentable, but the authors apparently do not agree that we may argue that the modeling they present shows forth God's wisdom. The concluding paragraph states, "Results indicate that the responsiveness of the genome to social information extends to inputs that require the formation of quantitative representations in the brain . . . One challenge in [deterministic] behavioral genomics is to elucidate how brain genomic responses lead to adaptive behavior. Distance measurement joins a growing number of naturally occurring and experimentally accessible traits [-- well, after all, probably all are agreed that the traits are not traits 'acquired through "dint of free will" intrinsic to honey bee Mind (self awareness-driven mentational properties in honey bees)' --] that will help us to solve this important problem." (Emphases are mine, Al Kidd's.)

Ah, Yes! "Important problem" indeed! for the evolutionists' theory that these behaviors in honey bees are result of something other than the ordaining will and creative power belonging to the owner of a Mind pre-existing the honey bee's existence itself ought to be seen by materialists as a theory fatally driven through by Karl Popper's "sword" (i.e., evolution is not a falsifiable theory), but is a theory shot through with incredible naiveté as we can see evidenced when evolutionists assert that the honey bee's behavioral genomics is not evidence of intelligent design, but that the challenge for them "is to elucidate how brain genomic responses [can blindly pursue and successfully] lead to adaptive behavior." Their naiveté is borne of their wish to resist the logical implication of the necessity of Mind (the Creator, God) reflected in creation.

The introductory and, again, the concluding paragraphs are presented below without my commentary.

"We report that regions of the honey bee brain involved in visual processing and learning and memory show a specific genomic response to distance information. These results were obtained with an established method that separates effects of perceived distance from effects of actual distance flown. Individuals forced to shift from a short to perceived long distance to reach a feeding site showed gene expression differences in the optic lobes and mushroom bodies relative to individuals that continued to perceive a short distance, even though they all flew the same distance. Bioinformatic analyses suggest that the genomic response to distance information involves learning and memory systems associated with well-known signaling pathways, synaptic remodeling, transcription factors and protein metabolism. By showing distance-sensitive brain gene expression, our findings also significantly extend the emerging paradigm of the genome as a dynamic regulator of behavior, that is particularly responsive to stimuli important in social life....

"Our results indicate that the responsiveness of the genome to social information extends to inputs that require the formation of quantitative representations in the brain . . . One challenge in behavioral genomics is to elucidate how brain genomic responses lead to adaptive behavior. Distance measurement joins a growing number of naturally occurring and experimentally accessible behavioral traits that will help us solve this important problem."