Waspish behaviour
From Frank Miles Sir: There have been letters in recent weeks arguing for and against the existence of a Creator. But surely a key aspect of the debate has been ignored. This is the behaviour of the living things which believers claim have been designed by an intelligent and benevolent being. Those who watched the recent David Attenborough television series Life in the Undergrowth will have been struck by the extremely unsocial behaviour of so many insects. Take, for one example, the tiny wasp which uses a needle-like proboscis to pierce the skin of a living grub and then inject her eggs into the poor creature. The eggs then feed on the inside of the grub, causing it slowly to die in order that they may live. If this is the plan of an intelligent designer, one has to ask, ‘Why would he do that?’ And why, I would further ask, would one decide to worship such a designer?
Frank Miles
Beckenham, Kent
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