Symbiotic Relationships in Nature and Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible

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9. Symbiotic Relationships in Nature and Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible

There are millions of symbiotic relationships in nature. Most plants either die or shed their leaves or seeds annually. This deposition leaves a mulch of organic matter on the floor of a forest or other plant habitat. In some forests, the annual deposition amounts to as much as six inches per year. If it were not for worms, insects and microorganisms that compost the dead leaves, trees and plants would suffocate in their own droppings within a few years, nor could their seeds germinate and grow. Trees could not survive for millions of years without good bacteria, because they would be buried in thousands of feet of undecomposed compost. It is axiomatic that insects and microorganisms must have been created within a few years of trees and plants, not millions of years. Insects or microorganisms that must feed on plants could not have existed before the plants. They would have to come into existence at approximately the same time.

Most plants produce flowers that must be pollinated by bees and other insects each spring. Plants could not have lived millions of years before bees or other insects. And these insects could not live millions of years before the plants. For the first of these plants to have reproduced, insects had to be created during the same year as the plant.

We hate flies, but flies biodegrade human and animal feces for us. We cannot eat crows, vultures or ravens, but they are humankind's best friends, cleaning up the garbage for us. There is a purpose for everything.

The Poisonwood Bible is a masterfully written fiction story that relates Barbara Kingsolver's, the author's dislike for crooked American government (as 76 percent of all American's now agree), her dislike of European governments, her preference for communism (which 76 percent of all Americans are now trying to prevent in America), and her disbelief in God (that 92 percent of all Americans believe in). Without realizing that it was the result of Intelligent Design, Barbara Kingsolver explains why human babies must crawl before they walk in order to straighten the spine after spending nine months doubled up in a womb, and to activate the brain. Despite Kingsolver's disbelief in God, she tells in a wonderful novel about a crazed missionary and his wife and four daughters without realizing it, how an Intelligent Designer created nature so that all living things become consumed by all other living things in a masterful plan in order to perpetuate all life. In John 12:24(NIV), Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, a remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds." That was one of Jesus' descriptions of symbiosis. Without the symbiosis between all living things, plants, animals and minerals, there would be no life on earth today. I know of no scientist that has done a better job of explaining symbiosis than does Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible.

Science has discovered a multitude of exclusive plant and animal symbiotic relationships, plant and plant symbiosis, and animal and animal symbiosis and the symbiosis of all these for the minerals of Intelligent Design. One could not exist without the other. Many more relationships than are now known will surely be discovered, as Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible succinctly points out. The Holy Bible tells us that plants were created in one day, and animals the next day. This not only makes sense, it cannot be disproved, and total symbiosis is the only possible way life can exist.

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