So, Richard Dawkins says in The God Delusion that natural selection succeeds as the solution to the problem of improbability over chance and design explaining it in a parable of climbing a mountain. One side is a sheer cliff impossible to climb, while the other side has a gentle slope. At the summit is a complex device. It is an absurdity to think that the device leeped from the foot of the mountain and landed at the summit in one bound. Evolution goes around to the other side of the mountain and "creeps up the gentle slope". (The God Delusion, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 p.121,122)
While climbing the "gentle slope", how did the individual cells determine what they would evolve into? Was it a lottery? Were meetings held as to who and what type would be evolved into a liver, a heart, a tree, a monkeys toe, the large intestine of a "mono peresoso"?
A friend of mine in 5th grade when we learned that all of us really came from monkeys, asked what happened to those monkeys that didn't evolve and I wondered which monkeys we came from. Why didn't we evolve from shrimp?
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