Creation Moments

Guest (Male): Learn about massive ant colonies on today’s Creation Moment. And now here’s our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Imagine a huge living creature covering about one square mile and made up of almost a third of a billion cells. Imagine each one of those living cells being able to move about independently of the others. No, it’s not a plot for a new science fiction movie. Some scientists have suggested that ant colonies may be thought of as one large living organism. They suggest this because of the way that individual members within the ant colony behave.

Ant colonies have many kinds of members, each with its own specific task. The soldier ants in a colony have extra-large heads and heavy-duty jaws for fighting. Other ants are only concerned about finding and returning food. Others prepare the food for the larva and deliver it to other specialized ants who do nothing but feed the next generation.

If this sounds complex, imagine the largest known ant colony. This Japanese ant colony has an estimated 306 million worker ants and more than a million queens. The colony occupies 45,000 interconnected underground nests that range over about one square mile.

There is obviously intelligent design and a control behind ant society—intelligence not found in individual ants or in nature itself. This intelligence comes from outside nature. Here is yet another witness that no concern of any living thing is too small for God’s complete attention.

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