Live Science reports that scientists have finally figured out how bees fly. “Using a combination of high-speed digital photography and a robotic model of a bee wing, the researchers figured out the flight mechanisms of honeybees,” which were apparently much more complex and exotic than was anticipated.
One thing I hadn’t realized was that proponents of “Intelligent Design” had for some time used scientists’ inability to explain bees’ flight mechanisms as ammunition towards their cause. On that topic Doug Altshuler, one of the researchers at the California Institute of Technology, commented that “We were finally able to put this one to rest. We do have the tools to understand bee flight and we can use science to understand the world around us.”
