We are taught that brains are where intelligence comes from.
 
However--

Compass termites
 
Compass termites build huge stone-like monoliths. The mound is a few inches thick, about 12 feet square, and perfectly oriented north-south. This permits the knife-like edge of the mound to decrease exposure to the overhead hot noon sun, while its broad faces capture the heat from the rising and declining sun.
 
Its elaborate internal honeycomb structure has thousands of shaft valves to facilitate air conditioning so that the internal temperature and humidity remain constant. A single termite has no idea how to build such a thing. As a group, they have the mind—X that out—genius, to do it perfectly. Since that genius of the colony mind does not reside in any single termite, it must lie outside of them.

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​BEEHIVES
With outside temperatures dropping to well below freezing, and humidity at 30%, the inside of a beehive remains at 70 degrees and 90% humidity. No single bee has any idea how to do this. Bee genius comes from elsewhere.
 
 
AFRICAN DRIVER ANTS
African driver ants can number over 22 million in a colony. All of them are blind. There are specialized hunters, nest tenders, and fighter sentries that guard the river of ants as it flows through the jungle. Although these blind creatures can communicate to a degree by chemical pheromones, only an extrinsic colony mind could orchestrate all the ants to one unified colony purpose.

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SEA ANEMONE
A sea anemone has no brain, ganglia (nests of intermingled nerves), or even concentrated neurons, yet all its parts coordinate. Each tentacle also has a memory. If offered a trick non-food object, the tentacle will remember and reject it the next time it's offered. Only that one brainless tentacle and none of the others remembers the trick.

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PROTOZOA
Mixotricha paradoxa are protozoa that digest the wood in a termite's gut. They have no nervous system and move with cilia that are themselves individual rod-like bacteria. There is no physical mind in control.
 
 
BACTERIA
Bacteria with no nervous system have been found to both learn and remember. E. coli bacteria can evaluate 20 different chemicals at the same time, swim to the area where food concentration is increasing the fastest, reevaluate the environment every 4 seconds, and communicate with one another. They are one-celled and brainless.
 
 
E. COLI BACTERIUM

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​MOLDS
When food becomes scarce, the tiny brainless underground slime mold, Dictostylium, will gather in a group of about 100,000. They then decide to form into one organism, a tiny slug that wriggles its way up through the ground mulch. Some of these slugs then become a stalk. Others at the top become spores so they can spread with the wind to new food sources. That process is orchestrated with no nerves and no brains.

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SHOALS, FLOCKS, SWARMS
Shoals, flocks, and swarms of fish, birds, and insects will move like one gigantic organism with no crashes and no clear leader. Millions of Indonesian fireflies spread over miles will synchronize their flash. There is no identified material seat of intelligence that directs these multitudes.
 
 
BIRD FLOCK SWARMING WITH NO COLLISIONS

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PLANTS
Plants, without brains, communicate and have memory. For example, trees being foraged or invaded by insects will send a message of warning to fellow trees miles away. In response, the trees receiving the message will increase the production of tannins and other chemicals that are noxious and toxic to the attackers. Roots of plants also communicate back and forth with brainless soil fungi and other microorganisms.
 
The Venus Flytrap emits a blue glow to attract insects. It has the intelligence to count to 20 seconds before closing the trap. This permits time to decide if what lands in it is living or just debris It also decides whether an insect caught is a pollinator that should not be trapped or a meal that should. All decisions are made with no brain.
 
 
VENUS FLYTRAP

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​CRUEL ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
(These experiments are cruel and unnecessary.)
 
Rats with massive portions of their brains removed continued to run a previously learned maze efficiently. Salamanders that have had their brains sliced, flipped, shuffled, and with parts deleted and even minced retained certain behaviors.
 
The results backfire on the evolutionary materialistic experimenters. The experiments prove what they must ignore: animals, including humans, are other than their material composition.