Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-09 Thread Samiya Illias
Posting the verses and science article links above your query, and response to your query below your it, for ease of reading: *Honey Bee* [Quran 16:68-69] 68 And inspired your Lord to the Bee that Take [second person female singular] among the mountains houses, and among the trees, and in what

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-09 Thread Samiya Illias
Links on Ant Communication below your comment: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:42 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2014 16:16, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-09 Thread LizR
On 9 May 2014 23:03, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Links on Ant Communication below your comment: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:42 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2014 16:16, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM, LizR

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-09 Thread LizR
I don't have time to look into this in detail right now, but my initial feeling (I may change my mind after further consideration) is that this is probably the most important part of what Dr Khalid Zaheer has to say: However, in our keenness to find signs we should not put into the mouth of the

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 May 2014, at 11:34, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-05-04 6:24 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 4 May 2014 15:20, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: I have forwarded your query to an expert in Arabic Grammar. Your quote from Wikipedia is correct. What I can inform you,

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 May 2014, at 00:25, LizR wrote: PS did I get that right about the queen being fed special stuff? My knowledge is also badly informed on many things...) On 5 May 2014 10:24, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 May 2014, at 06:16, Samiya Illias wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some assumptions based on that. If they noticed

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-05 Thread LizR
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Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-05 Thread Samiya Illias
On 06-May-2014, at 6:20 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: As Dr Seuss might have put it, Sam - I - am - not! :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-04 6:24 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 4 May 2014 15:20, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: I have forwarded your query to an expert in Arabic Grammar. Your quote from Wikipedia is correct. What I can inform you, based on my understanding, is that the pronoun 'ha' used

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread LizR
Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some assumptions based on that. If they noticed that the queen started as a normal worker but was fed special stuff to make her into the queen... well, people weren't

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread LizR
PS did I get that right about the queen being fed special stuff? My knowledge is also badly informed on many things...) On 5 May 2014 10:24, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread meekerdb
On 5/4/2014 3:25 PM, LizR wrote: PS did I get that right about the queen being fed special stuff? My knowledge is also badly informed on many things...) It think she's fed the special stuff, royal jelly, as a larva; so it would be hard ascertain she started as a normal worker just by

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread LizR
On 5 May 2014 13:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/4/2014 3:25 PM, LizR wrote: PS did I get that right about the queen being fed special stuff? My knowledge is also badly informed on many things...) It think she's fed the special stuff, royal jelly, as a larva; so it would be

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:24:15AM +1200, LizR wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some assumptions based on that. If they noticed that the queen started as a normal worker but was fed special

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread LizR
On 5 May 2014 14:33, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:24:15AM +1200, LizR wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some assumptions based on that. If

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread Samiya Illias
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some assumptions based on that. If they noticed that the queen started as a normal worker but was

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread LizR
On 5 May 2014 16:16, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some assumptions based on that. If

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-03 Thread LizR
That's quite interesting. I assume Arabic is a language in which there are not normally masculine and feminine forms of nouns, since that would mean that there was a 50-50 chance of happening to get it right simply by luck. (For example, I'm sure the French would be overjoyed if all tables turned

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-03 Thread LizR
On 4 May 2014 15:20, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: I have forwarded your query to an expert in Arabic Grammar. Your quote from Wikipedia is correct. What I can inform you, based on my understanding, is that the pronoun 'ha' used in the verse is for female singular with a plural

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-03 Thread Samiya Illias
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:24 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2014 15:20, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: I have forwarded your query to an expert in Arabic Grammar. Your quote from Wikipedia is correct. What I can inform you, based on my understanding, is that the