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I got five stings from yellow jackets last week, and it got me started researching stinging insects. My brother told me about a pain scale - an insect sting pain scale! - called the "Schmidt Pain Index". I didn't know there was such a thing, and it's pictured below. And, by the way, this is only a representative chart of insects that sting. There are a lot more, but you'll get the idea...
So, light yellow means that the sting is relatively mild, orange means that it hurts! (notice the yellow jacket is in this category), red means that it REALLY HURTS!!, and dark red means that you might wish you hadn't been born.
BUT, the larger the circle, the longer the pain lasts. So, consider those yellow jacket stings I got. The pain lasted about ten minutes. No big deal. But, look at the color and the circle size for the bullet ant! Three hundred minutes!? This is considered the single most intense pain of any insect. That's the ant pictured here. It's a large ant, found in South America.
We normally think of insects that "sting" as flying - like bees and wasps. We think of ants as being creatures that bite, not sting. But, there are a number that can!
All of this still brings us back to the question I had before - When did these creatures get their sting? And, if they were designed this way at the beginning, what was the purpose? I don't know.
But, what I do know is that the evolutionists have no idea, either! In this, and in ALL cases of design in the natural world (evidence of creation), blind evolution is given the credit. All proposed evidence of the mechanisms that produced these incredible results are hidden in "millions of years". Their "science of origins" is stacked with cases that can be found in this hiding zone. It's an easy area
for them to escape into when there are no answers.
