Re: Intelligent Design

[Nick Palmer]

Back in the days of the CompuServe forums, where some of us met, this 
evolution versus creationism argument came up. Whilst I think microevolution 
is obvious (legs getting longer, camouflage getting more effective etc) I am 
not so sure about the giant leaps. Back then the eye was brought up as an 
example of a complex structure and people purported to show how it could 
have evolved in mini steps. I believed them! However, I posted one example 
that has always bothered me, to whit the process of  butterfly 
metamorphosis. Inside the chrysalis, the body of the caterpillar breaks down 
almost completely and reforms into something very different and, on the face 
of it, more complex. I could never see that this process could evolve in 
small steps that were evolutionarily advantageous at each stage. The only 
response I got was hand waving from some boy wonder science geek who said 
that evolution has been proved as a theory therefore metamorphosis must have 
evolved (without actually suggesting how)!