Fast Bees or Fast Talking? According to the Bible, God created
the land-living insects, and that would include the bees, on day
six of creation. This was just three days after He created the
flowering plants. According to evolution, bees evolved from a
simpler insect after the pollen-bearing plants had developed.
The specialized bee and its complex social structure was thought
to have taken a long time to evolve. Creationists, who believe
the time line of events laid out in Scripture and reject
inflated evolutionary years, were not surprised when a bee was
found preserved in amber which was many millions of years older
than the oldest known bee. The almost perfectly preserved bee is
like modern bees, and can even be identified as a worker. Not
only does this show that bees, with all their superb
specializations, were around much earlier than ever thought by
evolutionists, it also shows that they were around for some time
before this specimen lived. In fact, the evolutionist who
reported the findings admitted