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Can evolution explain the transition of a caterpillar to a butterfly?
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Underdeveloped larva managing to SURVIVE AND develop mutation for cacoon AND mutation for jumpstarting growth is beyond magical.
Quoting: Spur-Man But it's not, mutation is an observable, natural phenomena. Premature birth happens all the time. Turning dirt into an adult man is literal magic. As in supernatural transmutation. Mutation is one mechanism that directs evolution, but there are others. All the evidence suggests butterflies evolved from moths, and moths evolved from earlier insects. There's no evidence that a supernatural entity caused moths to spontaneously appear from dirt. All the evidence suggests it created itself. I never said anything 'created itself.' If not, all the evidence suggests that any number of external factors created it, except for a designer.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77301333 There could be a designer. Evolution is the process where populations change and diversify with time. All the evidence suggests that you sir are well indoctrinated.
Well, maybe.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77301333 And that evidence is? Funny how you make a sentence that states mutations direct evolution, what the fuck does that even mean.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77301333 It's pretty simple. Evolution is change over time. The direction in which things change is determined by mutations, epigenetics, transposable elements, natural selection and the environment.
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