Earlier I gave a number of examples of how organisms do not wait around for chance to save them from extinction, but both greatly accelerate, and appear to select, new mutations, so that they can recover something as complex as flagella within as little as a few days, rather than over the many millennia that chance mutation would require. We now know that even egg and sperm do not just meet randomly, but both are actively selective.30 To quote Kolakowski: The evolutionary process teems with dead ends, failures, half-baked projects, and circuitous routes; nature proceeds somewhat gropingly,
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