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From Dawn's Front Porch

“Searching for the Truth”

By Newscaster Contributor Dawn Clary

Praying Mantis Hearing Deﬁes Evolution!

Boiling the Frog – There is an old story that if you put a frog in a pot of water and

For decades it was believed that the praying

very very slowly raise the temperature a little at a time, the frog won’t notice and won’t

mantis had no sense of hearing because there are no hear-

jump out of the pot. Sadly he is boiled to death. Because the change is so slow the frog just

ing membranes on its head. However, in the late 1980’s,

doesn’t pick up on it until it is too late. The moral of the story is that you need to be aware

neuroscientist David Yager discovered that most mantids

of what’s happening and pay attention. This is sort of the way that some fear it may be with

(praying mantis species) have a single hearing membrane

the issue of sea level rise. Because it is happening so slowly, we may not react soon enough

buried deep in the center of their thorax (chest area).

to take advantage of some things that we could do ahead of time that might help it be less

Dr. Yager has shown that ﬂying mantids can de-

destructive and miserable. The University of Florida put on a workshop last week at the

tect the ultrasonic chirps of an approaching bat and take

I-Y Lions Club to help the coastal communities begin the thought process of awareness and

evasive action much like a ﬁghter jet – pulling up into a

adaptation to what is coming although very slowly. The estimates of the rise in sea level due

stall position, turning sideways, and dropping into a powered dive toward the ground.

to global warming, range from 6 feet by 2100 to 18 inches. The middle of the road estimate

This complex aerial maneuver usually succeeds in losing the trailing bat.

for our area is 3 feet by 2100. While many people just aren’t interested and their eyes glaze

Not only does no other insect possess such an ultra-sensitive “ear”, but there

over in a discussion of sea level rise because it seems so far away and many of us won’t be

is no known ancestor or evolutionary path explaining its existence. The evidence in-

here to experience it, but the issue is of great concern for governmental ofﬁcials because

dicates that this one speciﬁc creature was designed with this amazing ability. Further

many of their decisions on where to invest in major infrastructure such as water plants,

frustrating any supposed evolutionary explanation, fossil mantids had been shown to

roads other long term projects that are bunches of money and have long service lives should

possess the same features long before bats were supposed to have evolved, making the

consider sea level rise. One of the consequences of sea level rise may be salt water intrusion

need for such a feature unnecessary. The Bible clearly teaches the creation of every

of water plants close to the coast. Cedar Key has already experienced this. The important

different “kind” of creatures at essentially the same time – making such features no

thing is to start to plan now while we have plenty of time. If the Yankeetown water plant

surprise.

should become unusable due to sea level rise, what would our plan be? For us it looks like

So how do evolutionists explain the existence of a unique form of hearing in a

the planning and zoning may be the major tool for helping to mitigate. The politics of what

creature long before such an ability would be useful? As usual, they fall back on faith

is causing the rise has made it difﬁcult to work with the issue, but it seems to be deﬁnitely

disguised as science. Yager and his colleagues “speculate a different [unknown] kind

happening though people may wish to argue about the causes.

of insectivorous predator could have chased them during the Cretaceous Period.” This

Budget workshop – YT’s next budget workshop is July 29th at the Lion’s Club at

is storytelling, not science.

6:00 pm.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

Sadness in the Swamp – I wish to express my deepest sympathy to Yankeetown

- Job 33:14

employee Paul Shearer and his family for the loss of his Grandmother. Good Night and

Good Luck

Based on, Inspired Evidence a book by Bruce Malone, 2011

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Inglis Mayor's Report

SELECTS NOMINATING COMMITTEE

On July 15, 2013 the Board of Trustees of Central Florida Elec-

Your new commission is working hard with me in many areas. Budget time is

tric Cooperative, Inc. met and appointed the following members as a com-

here and it is going to be a real challenge for any town government this year. We have been

mittee for nominations: John M. Ayers, III - Doyle Barden - Patrick W. Bell - Leo Cason

working hard on how your money is being spent and still have many things that need ad-

Larry D. Colson - J. Kirven Goss - J.P. Krewett - Mack Y. Poole - J.D. Welch

dressing, inventorying and auditing. We reduced the police gasoline bills for the month of

June down to $1779.00 by parking the IPD cars. Ofﬁcer Goodman resigned and the K-9

The committee will meet on July 22, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. to select nominees to rep-

Boston retired to him which should drop the IPD gas bill more as Goodman was the only

resent Districts 4, 6, and 8 as Trustees of Central Florida Electric Cooperative, Inc. These

one allowed to take his vehicle home because of the dog. We need to ﬁgure out why the

districts are presently represented by:

maintenance/water gasoline bill is $1260.00. Inglis is only a 4 square mile town. We voted

this past week for maintenance vehicles like IPD vehicles to stay parked in the compound

Kyle Quincey District 4 -

Alan Mikell District 6 -

Randy Mikell District 8

and only the supervisor or one on call to take the car home.The zoning gas bill was $90.00

and the Fire Department was $204.00.

The Cooperative’s Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2013. Registration

We are focusing on the town ordinances and the personnel manual that have con-

will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the business meeting will follow at 10:00 a.m.

ﬂicting procedures. Responsibility and accountability can not be addressed properly when

the two sets of instructions of how the town is to be run are different or totally void of a

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