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evolutionist, describes spiders' behaviour in this way in his book,
Climbing Mount Improbable:
On our route we shall have occasion to look at spider webs - at the
bewildering, though unconscious, ingenuity with which they are made
and how they work. 1
Actually, saying these, Dawkins comes up against such questions
as "how the animals' conscious and intelligent behaviour emerged,
and what its source was," which cannot be explained in any way by
the theory of evolution. Really, questions such as "How do living
creatures come to possess this intelligence, and how do they learn

where to apply it?" are ones to which the defenders of the theory of
evolution are unable to supply open and definitive answers.
At this point an examination of the arguments the evolutionists
use to try to answer the question of conscious and intelligent
behaviour in animals will be appropriate. Let us do this by explaining
the real meaning of a term which evolutionists use in their claims.
Evolutionists searching for an answer to the question of "how
living creatures came to have purposeful behaviour" use "instinct" to
try to shed light on the matter. But they are in no way successful. This
can be clearly seen by a more thorough appreciation of the concept of
"instinct." Evolutionists say that animals engage in such things as
devotion, planning, tactics or behaviour requiring special abilities,
which require consciousness and intelligence, thanks to "instinct." But,
of course, evolutionists' just saying this is not sufficient. In addition to
making this claim, they also have to provide answers to such
questions as how this behaviour first came about, how it was passed
down the generations, and how the concept of "instinct" managed to
give living creatures consciousness and intelligence. However,
evolutionists have absolutely no answers to these questions. Gordon

Rattray Taylor is an evolutionist expert in genetics. He has this to say
about instincts: