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of moths and butter-
                                      flies. They also have to explain
                                 why 48-million-year-old fossil butterflies
                              are identical to specimens alive today 326  and
                            have remained unchanged for millions of years.

                         How does that square with evolution?
                           In addition, evolutionists must abandon myths and
                       fairy tales to answer these questions: How did the stunning
                       patterns, dazzling colors and perfect symmetry in butterfly
                       wings emerge? How did they come by their attractive exter-
                       nal appearance and defense systems that protect them
                       against predators? How did butterflies' superior flight mech-

                       anisms and systems that are marvels of engineering come
                       about? How did metamorphosis—an exceptionally complex
                       mechanism—come into existence? How did the complex
                       program that regulates the transformations from the egg to
                       the caterpillar, the caterpillar to the pupa, and the pupa to
                       the butterfly arise in this insect's genetic code?
                            Apart from speculation, evolutionists have no an-
                           swers to these questions. They cannot account for
                              such extraordinary structures and flawless sys-

                                  tems in terms of such random factors as
                                         natural selection and muta-
                                             tion. Darwinists





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