The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

by David Quammen

The same ICR publishing house that brought us Bomby has served (by one account) as distributor of a tract titled “God’s Plan for Insects”—and for that matter another called “Unhappy Gays”—but I strongly doubt that either of those comes to grips with the phenomenon of homosexual rape among bedbugs. If X. maculipennis is another instance of God’s wisdom made manifest in the works of creation, I suspect that the sort of god manifested is not the one Duane T. Gish wants.