Bombardier beetle chemicals would explode if mixed without an inhibitor (Talk.Origins)

Claim CB310.1:

The bombardier beetle would explode if the hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone that produce their ejecta were mixed without a chemical inhibitor. Such a combination of chemicals could not have evolved. Source:
 * Gish, Duane T., 1977. Dinosaurs: Those Terrible Lizards. El Cajon, CA: Master Book, pp. 51-52.
 * Hitching, Francis, 1982. The Neck of the Giraffe, New York: Meridian, p. 68.
 * AiG, 1990. The amazing bombardier beetle. Creation Ex Nihilo 12(1): 29.

CreationWiki response:

Talk.Origins is 100% correct in saying that this claim is an inaccurate description of bombardier beetles, however it is also a total misrepresentation of what creationists have said on the topic.

Nowhere in the AiG article is it claimed that without the inhibitor the bombardier beetles explode. The purpose of the inhibitor is to prevent any reaction from occurring, not to prevent an explosion. The only reference to the beetles' exploding is in reference to the speed of the reaction, by simply saying that it does not explode fast enough to blowup the beetles.

AiG could not have been using too sloppy a translation since their actual description is a good match for Talk.Origins.

Nothing but Statistical Thermodynamics and Information theory, the lack of an evolutionary mechanism, the lack of a source for the information in the beetle's DNA, and the lack of intermediate forms. There are plenty of scientific reasons to consider the evolution of the bombardier beetle implausible, however there are plenty of faith-based reasons to consider it plausible, seeing as how science operates on observation, repeatability and predictability. The "evolution of the bombardier beetle" is none of these things.

Given the fact that AiG’s actual description is a good match for the Talk.Origins' description, apparently Talk.Origins doesn't know how the example works either.