(November 8, 2011 at 4:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I also believe things like butterfly wings couldn't have evolved. Something coming out of the side of a bug is not going to jump right away or even be able to be moved, until many mutations, but natural selection will not favor it. In the same way 1/999th of a butterfly wing wing will not be more advantageous of 1/1000th wing, and it's not heading by natural selection towards a wing. The process won't lead to it.
I believe the same is true of many things in creation. Sure if you take big steps and just say evolution lead from one step to other, then it can appear that everything evolved, but when you look at the small steps in the begining, will it be guided by natural selection towards the design, I think you will realize many things are impossible by this process.
What's that, Lassie? You can't personally think of any way in which a small portion of a wing could be advantageous to the ancestor of a butterfly, therefore it couldn't possibly have happened?
Evolution is as established a fact as any that exists on this planet, so whether you can think of a way a wing might have evolved or not, it happened.
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