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A Riddle for Darwin: What spins a cocoon, turns to liquid, and whacks the theory of evolution out of the ball park?   By Thomas F. Heinze     Darwin felt that natural selection working on slight modifications had formed all the animals and all of their organs. He wrote: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”   Here’s an "absolute break down" surprise for him! Butterflies are not formed by successive slight modifications to caterpillars, or to any evolutionary ancestor, neither are their complex organs.   When a butterfly egg hatches, a caterpillar steps out, eats, grows, and then builds a little house around itself where it passes into the pupal stage. Inside the leather-like shell of the pupa, the caterpillar dissolves. I don’t mean he dissolves in tears, or has a squishy feeling. His eyes, legs, and intestines, bristly fuzz, all those things that gave him his distinguished identity as a caterpillar, are digested from within and melt down to form a thick liquid, Exceptions are his heart and the tiny “imaginal disks” that will direct the transformation into a butterfly.   Darwin said that if any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, his theory would absolutely break down.  Compare the organs of the caterpillar that crawled in with those of the butterfly that flew out:   Caterpillar organs:     Butterfly organs: 12 legs                                     6 legs 13 segment body                      3 segments: head, thorax, abdomen.                                                             Thorax has three subsections. 6 simple eyes                            2 compound, 2 simple eyes No sex organs                          Sex organs Chewing jaws                           Coiled sucking tube 0 wings                         2 pairs of wings   Darwin thought natural selection had lifted all plants and animals up from a single cell by eliminating the individuals whose “successive, slight modifications” made them less fit than their ancestors and keeping the more fit alive. There is no evidence in the fossil record or any where else of butterflies or moths evolving by slight modifications to any primitive ancestor. Nor were they formed by slight modifications to caterpillars, or to the caterpillars organs. The chart above shows the really great differences between caterpillars and butterflies. The butterfly’s organs were not made from caterpillars. They were made out of goo.  What is the least fit substance you can think of? The thick liquid gunk butterflies are made of? Even those who would not call it the least fit substance know that it has no selective advantage over a voracious caterpillar crawling efficiently through the brush avoiding predators with protective coloration and a covering of disgusting stiff fuzz! But don’t stop there. No one knows of a primitive ancestor to the butterfly, so follow the evolutionists’ tradition and make one up. Can you think of any possible ancestor that would have been able to do the things necessary to live, (eat, reproduce, etc.) that would have been less fit than thick goo?        Books by Thomas F. Heinze Click here to get discount ordering information.

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