Natures wonders: wasps and zombie spiders (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, August 09, 2015, 11:45 (3392 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Comment: How to explain this arrangement in Darwin terms? I can't.-Dhw: How to explain this arrangement in dhw terms? A particularly intelligent and observant wasp worked out an ingenious way to provide its larvae with food and protection. It laid its eggs on the back of a spider etc. The method worked, and so it was passed on to subsequent generations.-DAVID: You want us to believe the wasp knew in advance how to re-program the spider brain and change its instinctual behavior to fit the larva's requirements? Again chicken and egg. One lone wasp tried this, got it right the first time and now all wasps of its type do this? Incredible.-I have no idea how much the wasp knew in advance. Maybe it just decided to lay its eggs on the spider's back to see what would happen. Intelligent humans often follow the same procedure and come up with amazing results. I notice you have not commented on the scenarios I extrapolated from your own hypotheses, so I will repeat them: -“How to explain this arrangement in Turellian terms? God, whose purpose in designing the universe was to produce human beings, preprogrammed the first living cells so that their descendants would produce wasps and spiders a few billion years later, and one particular type of wasp would lay its eggs on the back of a spider etc.
Alternatively, God saw a wasp and a spider, and dabbled with the wasp to make it lay its eggs on the back of the spider etc.” 
(I forgot to mention that God also preprogrammed the first living cells to pass on instructions for the spider's brain to be reprogrammed etc. Thank you for reminding me.)-Can you honestly say you don't find this "incredible"? I'd love to know what Tony and BBella think of it too!