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22 DESIGN IN NATURE

The figure above shows the wing movement of a dragonfly during flight. The front wings
are marked with red dots. A close examination reveals that the front and back pairs of
wings are flapped to a different rhythm, which gives the insect a superb flight technique.
The motion of the wings is made possible by special muscles operating in harmony.

The insect, then, needs to carry extra load, which does not serve any real
purpose. This would put the insect at a disadvantage against rivals.
Moreover, according to the fundamental principle of the theory of evolution,
natural selection would have made this handicapped insect and its
descendants extinct.
Mutations, moreover, occur very seldom. They always harm the
creatures, leading to deadly sicknesses in most cases. This is why it is
impossible for small mutations to cause some formations on the body of a
dragonfly to evolve into a flight mechanism. After all this, let us ask
ourselves: even if we assume, against all odds, that the scenario suggested
by evolutionists might have been real, why is it that the "primitive
dragonfly" fossils which would give substance to this scenario do not exist?
There is no difference between the oldest dragonfly fossils and the

A 250 million-year-
old fossil dragonfly
and a modern
dragonfly