Focus: news of interest about creation and evolution The beetle
Melanophila acuminata has long been known to seek out forest
fires so it ‘can lay its eggs in nutritious, freshly burnt
wood’. The beetles have been shown to detect fires from over 32
kilometres (20 miles) away, without using hearing or smell. Now
German researchers have discovered how they do it. They have
special organs of detection in their chests which can pick up
infrared light. The light is converted to heat, which is then
converted to a mechanical signal. This sort of system has never
before been described in any living thing. The Daily Telegraph,
25 September 1997, p. 9. One wonders how anyone could conceive
of such systems evolving from the accumulation of random
mutations. The more that is known, the more we see the awesome
diversity of creative design. Early humans were bigger A new
study of fossil humans (‘archaic Homo’, which we believe are
mostly the remains of early post-Babel people) has provided very
detailed estimates of their t