You have probably heard that evolution has difficulty explaining the origin of amazingly complex designs. It turns out that evolutionists have quietly solved the problem while we weren’t paying attention. With little fanfare, they have rolled out modular evolution. This new kind of evolution is truly astonishing. What it does is, well, it creates complexity just like that. Evolutionists once thought that biology’s miracles evolved more or less one step at a time. But such staid ideas about evolution have long since become, as J. D. Hooker probably would say if he were around today, “old stick-in-the-mud doctrines.” If bankers can liven things up then why not evolutionists?

Modular evolution creates new complexity not the old fashioned way, but by a new type of go-go evolution. Like a bank that makes millions without taking any of the risk, modular evolution doesn’t worry about creating complexity, it just does. As the theory goes—and this is a very theoretical piece of work—modular evolution assembles different design components (or modules) that have already evolved. Kind of like putting an engine and a transmission together, modular evolution skips over the intermediate steps and goes right for the finished design. How clever.

And now a new fossil finding in China has confirmed just this type of advanced evolutionary process. The fossil reveals a flying reptile which has been appropriately christened Darwinopterus because, after all, Darwin invented evolution. As evolutionist David Unwin explains:

Darwinopterus came as quite a shock to us. We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail—neither long nor short. But the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms.

There you have it—go-go evolution proceeding by leaps and bounds. The design obviously gave Darwinopterus great new capabilities which would have been selected by evolution, so there’s really nothing to question here. Like bankers, evolutionists have learned to focus on benefits rather than risks.

The Reverend Jerry Coyne has condescended to reveal a treasure of timeless truths in his little revelation entitled Why Evolution is True. That these truths are metaphysical--they cannot be deduced from science--make them especially precious. In his revelation Reverend Coyne illuminates a wide range of truths for us to revere. Here is an oracle of Coyne on bad design:

What I mean by "bad design" is the notion that if organisms were built from scratch by a designer--one who used the biological building blocks of nerves, muscles, bone, and so on--they would not have such imperfections. Perfect design would truly be the sign of a skilled and intelligent designer. Imperfect design is the mark of evolution. ...

Flatfish are born as normal-looking fish that swim vertically, with one eye placed on each side of a pancake-shaped body. But a month thereafter, a strange thing happens: one eye begins to move upward. It migrates over the skull and joins the other eye to form a pair of eyes on one side of the body, either right of left, depending on the species. The skull also changes its shape to promote this movement, and there are changes in the fins and color. In concert, the flatfish tips onto its newly eyeless side, so that both eyes are now on top. ...

If you wanted to design a flatfish, you wouldn't do it this way. You'd produce a fish like the skate, which is flat from birth and lies on its belly--not one that has to achieve flatness by lying on its side, moving its eyes and deforming the skull. Flatfish are poorly designed. ...

the particular bad designs that we see make sense only if they evolved ... [81:3-85:3]

As the Most High Coyne reveals, perfect design is, truly, truly, a sign of a skilled designer. No designer would design the species we find. Evolution must be true. Such ultimate truths can only come from a prophet. Amen.