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What mutations could improve a larva? Certainly none that destroyed its nerves, muscles, eyes, brain, and most other organs, as occurs within a cocoon. So, even if a larva improved, it later ends up as ??mush.? From an evolutionary standpoint, liquefying complex organs is a giant step backwards. As Michael Pitman wryly noted:

??Maggots will more or less dissolve themselves when developing into a fly. Was the process pre-programmed from the first ??production run?? Or was the ancestral fly a dissolved maggot? (b)?

The millions of changes inside the thick liquid never produce something survivable or advantageous in the outside world until the adult completely forms. How did the genetic material for both larva and adult develop? Which came first, larva or adult? What mutations could transform a crawling larva into a flying monarch butterfly that can accurately navigate 3,000 miles using a brain the size of a pinhead (c)? Indeed, why should a larva evolve in the first place, because it cannot reproduce (d)?

Charles Darwin wrote:

??If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down (e).?
Based on metamorphosis alone, evolution ??breaks down.?

Obviously, the vast amount of information that directs every stage of a larva??s and an adult??s development, including metamorphosis, must reside in its genetic material at the beginning. This fits only creation.


b. Pitman, pp. 193??194.

c. Jules H. Poirier, From Darkness to Light to Flight: Monarch??the Miracle Butterfly (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, 1995).

d. An evolutionist might claim that larvae once reproduced, but then lost that capability. If so, why is there no sign of any remnant reproductive equipment in any of the hundreds of thousands of larva types?

e. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 6th edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1927), p. 179.

In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - 37. Metamorphosis