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Blind salamanders and hopeful monsters
by Stop-truth-decay
I agree that a eye in a totally dark world is a liability. Yet an eye has mutated to be a little less sensitive/functional remains as large an liability as the fully functional eye. The only selective advantage would be the sudden appearance of an absent eye--the hopeful monster in reverse. Yet the hopeful monster is rejected by mainstream evolutionary theory. Comments?
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