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Q: What is “incomplete” metamorphosis and how does it relate to evolution?
A: When
a caterpillar changes into a butterfly, its internal organs dissolve
and are re-formed as the butterfly emerges in a process called metamorphosis.
The instructions for this process were “programmed” into
the caterpillar's DNA.
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Evolutionist quote of the week
“One interesting idea [of why dinosaurs went extinct] put forward in 1962 supposes that the evolution of those flowering plants was followed by the first appearance of the butterflies and moths … The caterpillars of butterflies and moths feed almost entirely on plants: today their numbers are kept down by natural enemies, notably birds, but when the caterpillars first appeared on the scene the birds had not yet realized how good they were to eat. For some time, therefore, the caterpillar population increased without check. They ate so much plant food that none remained for the plant-eating dinosaurs; the plant-eating dinosaurs died of starvation, and so the meat-eating dinosaurs which preyed on them also without food.”
– Alan Charig, A New Look At The Dinosaurs, pp. 150–151.
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There’s
another type of metamorphosis, which biology textbooks label “incomplete”:
a nymph changing into a grasshopper. It sheds its skin several times,
which we call “molting.”
But
it’s
wrong to say this is “incomplete” metamorphosis, because
the change is complete. The grasshopper becomes an adult
the way its DNA programs it to.
So
why do evolutionary biologists call it “incomplete”? It
is because they assume that the grasshopper and the butterfly
are related through evolution!
In
other words, the term exists simply because of a prior belief in evolution.
Just because two insects have similarities, evolutionists assume they
must have a common ancestry. But the Bible tells us these insects
were created to reproduce after their kind—from the beginning—according
to God’s perfect design. So there’s no such thing as “incomplete
metamorphosis.”
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