Figs and Wasps

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Originally Posted by DanaC

How the hell did the story of the wasp and the fig restore your belief in God?

It's one of the key examples used by evolutionary biologists to demonstrate the evolutionary process.

Without getting into an Evolution vs. Hand of God thing, there's just too much interdependence happening there. The fig tree can't get along without the fig wasp. The fig wasp does not possess the tools/skills to do it's thing to the fig, until another critter does it's thing to the fig. Lather, rinse, repeat. And that's just what I remember from the Nature show, there was more to it.

I choose not to believe all this was just a happy accident.

There's enough things in life that make me think there never was a God. This is one of the very few things that make me rethink things.

All this is just my uneducated opinion. (But, it's the only one that counts.)