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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Does Darwin's Evolution Theory explain metamorphosis caterpillar to butterfly?
« on: 20/11/2010 18:15:24 »
There are some evolutionary changes that we cannot explain, but seem possible. However, how can one explain that the caterpillar evolved to change into a butterfly when such a quantum change involves giant steps that could not be achieved by our understanding of evolution involves slow, gradual changes? For example, we would assume that at some point in past history the caterpillar makes itself a cocoon: why make a cocoon? Once evolved to make a cocoon around itself, how can evolution suddenly skip through thousands of steps at a single point in time in order to come out a butterfly? I am not a religious person, and I do believe in the theory of evolution, however, it seems to me that the process must include some significant other factors than Darwin';s Evolutionary Theory. In the example of the caterpillar to butterfly, it's as if there was an external intelligence that might have been involved.
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