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Whoops, missed Arakkis' last post.

Originally Posted by Arakkis

I don't want this post to take me hours to write, so I will leave it up to you to go and look these up.

I'm no expert, but I know enough about genetics that I don't need to look it up thanks.

Suffice to say, mutation is a pretty random process.

Very true.

So this random process designed proteins, oligosaccharides, and pigments to look just like a flower.

Completely untrue. Evolution through natural selection is not a random process. Mutation is very much random, agreed. However when you introduce selection of some sort (in this case survivability), then it becomes very much a non-random process.

Have you read the Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins? You really should if you haven't, it's a fantastic read.

We are talking about random mutation creating a replica of a complex plant breeding structure out of an insect. That kind of luck just doesn't make logical sense to me no matter how many millions of years it had.

Again, evolution through natural selection is not a random process. People that claim it is either do not understand it very well, or they're intentionally being intellectually dishonest.

THAT is why I still have faith that there is something more to the puzzle of evolution that we haven't found yet. Now whether that is some sort of intelligence... well, none of you atheists want to hear that so let's just say this kind of directed perfection has to have more to the story.

Again, you're basing your entire argument on your assumption that evolution is random, and that's a false assumption. And then based on that false assumption, you find problems with evolution, and fill those holes that you imagine to be there with some sort of "intelligence", which to anyone who is not religious sounds an awful lot like god. That's a problem.