Vanilla Ice Cream Defies Evolution……

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Vanilla Ice Cream Defies Evolution……

My thanks to my precious friend Dorothy Baker for this most interesting fact. It is from BP’s Fuel For Thought, a website I highly recommend. BP is actually Pastor Brett Petrillo and he runs one of the most interesting Christian websites on the Internet.

“Ice Cream,” “You Scream,” “We all scream for Ice Cream!” I’m sure you’ve heard or participated in that kind of joyful holler. Vanilla ice cream, according to the major ice cream companies, is the number one choice of Americans. But did you know that vanilla ice cream defies the evolutionary theory?

How does it defy it? Ray will tell you right now. 

My thanks to my precious friend Dorothy Baker for this most interesting fact. It is from BP’s Fuel For Thought, a website I highly recommend. BP is actually Pastor Brett Petrillo and he runs one of the most interesting Christian websites on the Internet.

VANILLA ICE CREAM DEFIES EVOLUTION ………          

Nearly everyone has enjoyed a yummy bowl of vanilla ice cream.

It is a wonderfully delicious desert.  However, vanilla ice cream wouldn’t even exist if

evolution were true. 

Let’s start out with a little history.  

Until more recent times, Mexico was the only producer of vanilla.

 In the 1520s, a man by the name of Hernán Cortés traveled

down to Mexico and loved vanilla.  So, he brought some back

with him to Europe. For the next 300 years, the Europeans

tried but were never able to produce vanilla. 

See, vanilla grows up a tree as a vine. Eventually the vine

produces an orchid. In order to make the vanilla bean, the

orchid must be pollinated. The problem is, it only blooms one morning per year for

pollination.  If it isn’t pollinated within

12 hours, it withers.  To make things more difficult, a hood like membrane covers the part

of the vanilla orchid which produces pollen. This makes the production of the vanilla

bean very difficult.

In 1836, Charles François Antoine Morren traveled down to

Mexico to figure out why they weren’t able to produce vanilla

beans in Europe. As Morren was studying the vanilla orchids,

his attention was drawn to a little bee (the Mexican Melipona

Bee). This bee landed on the orchid, lifted up the little hood

like membrane, collected pollen, and then flew off to the next

flower.  This bee was pollinating the orchids.After some time,

the orchid produced a vanilla bean. 

To this day, the Mexican Melipona Bee is the only insect that

knows how to pollinate the vanilla orchid. This simple fact puts evolution in an extremely

difficult position. Without the Mexican Melipona Bee, we simply would not have vanilla

today.  The bee

and the vanilla vine had to be made at the exact same time. Not

to mention, this bee had to be given specific information about

how to pollinate the vanilla orchid.  Again, no other insect

knows how to do this.  This bee had to be made, designed,

and purposefully created to pollinate the vanilla orchid, and

thus, produce vanilla. 

 So much of our world points to the Creator. As silly as it

sounds, even vanilla ice cream proclaims the glory of God.  

So, the next time you sit down to enjoy a full bowl of vanilla ice cream, remember that you are enjoying a tasty treat which is

only possible through the power of God!

Vanilla Ice Cream Defies Evolution……

Vanilla Ice Cream Defies Evolution……