Saturday, March 18, 2023

Becoming a Butterfly

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.

The standard Darwinian account, remember, maintains that this process evolved through an unguided, purposeless series of genetic mutations combined with natural selection. No intelligent agency was involved.

There's a bit of overlap in the two videos but not much:
Speaking for myself, the idea that such a process evolved seems possible, maybe even plausible, but the idea that the process evolved unaided by any intelligent, purposeful guidance seems to me quite literally incredible.