Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Even the monkey-worshiping scientists admit as much.

Sick-ular source:

The behavior of some animals changes when they are parasitized. The possibility that such changes are adaptive for the parasite has been controversial, because some alterations may be incidental byproducts of the parasite’s effects on its host [1]. Other changes, however, are well designed to promote the survival of the parasite, and are thought to represent manipulation of the host to the parasite’s advantage [2–5].

There's a clear admission of design, and as we know, a design requires a Designer. In greater detail:

Ichneumonid wasps in the tribe Polysphinctini are ectoparasites of spiders (Gauld 1995) , [6] and several species in the “Polysphincta clade” (hereafter “polysphinctine wasps”) modify the web construction behavior of their hosts [7, 8]. After growing slowly for a week or more as it feeds on the spider’s hemolymph (and apparently not affecting its host’s behavior), the larva induces the spider to build a modified, “cocoon” web. The larva then kills and devours its host, builds a cocoon attached to the cocoon web, and pupates. Cocoon webs built by spiders appear to improve the chances of survival of the wasp’s cocoon [7, 9–11].

What evil-utionary mechanism could explain that? Some monkey-worshipers hypothesize that the wasp larvae can produce proteins that can alter the spiders' behavior, but what good is half of such a protein? God must have designed the mechanism in order to provide for His creations, in this case the wasps. It seems less advantageous for the spider that is parasitized, enslaved, and ultimately killed, but God's priorities are His and His alone to determine.

Nonetheless, the author backtracks in order to preserve his evil-utionary dogma:

Spiders never survive to reproduce once their behavior is altered, so cocoon web construction has probably evolved under selection on the larva rather than the spider.

Since the Darwiniacs can't explain it, they appeal to their "evil-ution in the gaps" non-argument. According to the religion of evil-utionism, the spider would have evolved a defense, since those that had done so would have a much better chance of surviving long enough to breed.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

The answer is blindingly clear only a secularist would no see it; these spiders have sinned and God has cursed them with death by wasp as punishment. We Christians are waiting for the day these tinny spiders repent of their depravity and turn their arachnid lives over to Christ. Then they will be building Baptist churches in their webs and not death cocoons.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

The answer is blindingly clear only a secularist would no see it; these spiders have sinned and God has cursed them with death by wasp as punishment. We Christians are waiting for the day these tinny spiders repent of their depravity and turn their arachnid lives over to Christ. Then they will be building Baptist churches in there webs and not death cocoons.

The spiders are no better than the liberals with their Big Government Health Care, sitting on Death Panels, choosing who lives and who dies. Killing is killing, and anytime it is done without the permission of God, it is also wrong.

The spiders are sucking the life from their victims everyday, like an abortionist with a vacuum cleaner. They have no more remorse for the flies, mosquitoes, and airborne type ants that they vampirize, than Obama had for his white grandmother when he sacrificed her to the Baron Samedi in exchange for the WHITE House.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

The spiders are no better than the liberals with their Big Government Health Care, sitting on Death Panels, choosing who lives and who dies. Killing is killing, and anytime it is done without the permission of God, it is also wrong.

The spiders are sucking the life from their victims everyday, like an abortionist with a vacuum cleaner. They have no more remorse for the flies, mosquitoes, and airborne type ants that they vampirize, than Obama had for his white grandmother when he sacrificed her to the Baron Samedi in exchange for the WHITE House.

Godly point Brother Jenkins; spiders are just God's metaphor for liberalism and the parasite wasps are representation of God's wrath for the sin of materialistic altruism.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

I always feel so much closer to God's reality whenever I contemplate parasitic wasps and suchlike. For God to go to all that trouble to design the perfect host for these wasps to lay their eggs in so the larvae can eat them alive is compassionate in the extreme. The poor wasp grubs would not be able to survive without a living host in which to grow and would suffer and starve.

There is such strategy and cunning in the effects of the wasps on the host animals in making them behave in a perfectly designed way to give the wasp grubs the best meal possible. There's no way a dumb wasp could come up with this on their own; God must have planned this meticulously so that the right way for wasps to behave is to cause other insects to be eaten alive slowly by their young. The young even eat the nervous system last so the host doesn't die too soon. Now that's what I call exploiting the prey to the maximum.

God is wonderful.

[Bob4God]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

The parasite/host relationship is such a beautiful one, you can't really help but imagine GOD as a parasite and humans as His host. He guides our actions and even gets into our brains, like a wiggly little worm of love.

Truly all of creation proclaims the glory of GOD!

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

The parasite/host relationship is such a beautiful one, you can't really help but imagine GOD as a parasite and humans as His host. He guides our actions and even gets into our brains, like a wiggly little worm of love.

Truly all of creation proclaims the glory of GOD!

This is truly magnificent insight. Perhaps this is why parasite creatures are such successful ones. I mean that little squiggly bug that causes malaria is one of his best ways to smite jungle bunnies that refuse to live lives where they have even heard of Jesus with the plague.

Just think of all the enemies of God it has sent screaming into Hell over the last 6000 years.

GLORY

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: Parasite's control of host's behavior: Evidence of God's design

Since the Darwiniacs can't explain it, they appeal to their "evil-ution in the gaps" non-argument. According to the religion of evil-utionism, the spider would have evolved a defense, since those that had done so would have a much better chance of surviving long enough to breed.

Evolution is as non existent as the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and an Obama voter with a job. It's amazing how cognitive dissonance gets "scientists" to keep following leads long after their peers have already proven their theories to be pure nonsense. This is what having no morals does to people. They lie, they rape and they force feed their children Disney channel.

Fortunately the Bible contains the simple truth. Parasites are God's punishment for those who annoy Him: Acts 12:23 "And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost."