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ground. The basic concept is that certain forearms, it is still irrational to expect
reptiles flapped their forearms very ra- that any wing could emerge by chance
pidly and for long periods as they chased through the addition of cumulative mu-
insects, and that over the course of time, tations. Any incremental mutation taking
these forelegs developed into wings. Not place in its forearms would not endow
the slightest explanation is offered, ho- the reptile with functional wings, but
wever, for how such a complex structure would leave it deprived of functioning
as a wing could have come into existen- forearms. This would leave the animal
ce from forearms being beaten against disadvantaged (in other words, defecti-
one another in order to trap flies. ve) compared to other members of its
John Ostrom, a prominent adherent of species. According to the rules of the
the cursorial theory, admits that the pro- theory of evolution, that deformed cre-
ponents of both hypotheses can do no ature would be eliminated through natu-
more than speculate: “My cursorial pre- ral selection.
dator theory is in fact speculative. But the Furthermore, according to biophysi-
arboreal theory is also similarly specula- cal research, mutations take place only
tive.” 104 (See Arboreal Theory, the.) very rarely. Therefore, it is impossible
Even if we assume that mutations did for these deformed creatures to wait mil-
cause undirected changes in a reptile’s lions of years for their deficient, in-
THE EVOLUTION IMPASSE I