Butterfly Metamorphosis

A week or so ago I did a post on the amazing migration of Monarch butterflies. Today I want to rerun an older post that features another marvelous aspect of butterfly biology - metamorphosis. A couple of short videos excerpted from Illustra Media's film titled: Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies highlight the incredible difficulties faced by any purely unguided and natural account of the origin of metamorphosis.

Why such a process would have ever evolved in the first place and how it could have done so are questions for which the standard Darwinian model has no plausible answer.

There's a bit of overlap in the two videos but not much:

Speaking for myself, it's of course logically possible that such a process evolved but the idea that the process evolved unaided by any intelligent, purposeful guidance seems to me quite literally incredible.