How can evolution explain the metamorphosis of the butterfly? Once the caterpillar evolves into the "mass of jelly" (out of which the butterfly comes), wouldn't it appear to be "stuck"?
2007-10-11 10:47:48 · 19 answers · asked by Nourhan 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
we all undergo different types of metamorphosis... we call it development
2007-10-11 10:50:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
This is an argument from incredulity. Because one does not understand how butterfly metamorphosis evolved does not mean it is too complex to have evolved.
Growth patterns intermediate to full metamorphosis already exist, ranging from growth with no metamorphosis (such as with silverfish) to partial metamorphosis (as with true bugs and mayflies) complete metamorphosis with relatively little change in form (as with rove beetles), and the metamorphosis seen in butterflies. It is surely possible that similar intermediate stages could have developed over time to produce butterfly metamorphosis from an ancestor without metamorphosis. In fact, an explanation exists for the evolution of metamorphosis based largely on changes in the endocrinology of development (Truman and Riddiford 1999).
2007-10-11 10:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Darwin interview trail led to Darwin's frog is a person who was born in the result of human evolution, the real question is how to travel through the demand for rapidly changing world.
2016-04-08 03:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Explain Ovid
2007-10-11 10:58:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
An embryo grows to an adult. The caterpillar stage is an intermediate stage, and persists until a signal triggers the completion of the process of growing into and adult. Many of the signal receptors are categorized. This is not evolution, it is developmental biology.
2007-10-11 10:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
If we consider ourselves Christians, Jesus only left us with two suggestions for dealing with Atheists.
First He ask us not to judge them.
Secondly He ask us to love our neighbor.
Atheists are our neighbors.
End of discussion.
Love and blessings Don
2007-10-14 04:10:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No more answers from me. My friend showed me the book from which you're reading, by the Turkish liar Harun Yahya.
You're going to keep pelting us with silly questions to which you have no answers but instead insert a plagiarized belief. I'm waiting for the Discovery Institute to make Yahya a Fellow.
What a jerk.
2007-10-11 10:52:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
When a theist asks atheists about some fine detail of science in the Religion section, we now take it as read that you have no interest in an answer at all. Go and ask this in the biology section if you actually ARE interested. You'll find plenty of atheists there too.
2007-10-11 10:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 10⤊ 4⤋
Why are you asking Science questions in R&S?
Why are you confusing atheists with scientists?
An atheist is someone who does not believe in the existence of gods or any other invisible beings.
Stephen Roberts: I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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2007-10-11 11:16:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Atheists and now biologists are the same, now??
The butterfly is the epitome of a perfect evolutionary animal.
2007-10-11 10:51:09 · answer #10 · answered by SteelRain 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Have you tried reading a science book? It does wonder to upgrade the intellectual level of your questions
2007-10-11 11:00:09 · answer #11 · answered by didi 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋