http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument What I was looking for but didn't find in the article was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument What I was looking for but didn't find in the article was an explanation (or even a hypothesis) for how this mechanism evolved. One of the things I find most fascinating about evolution is how seemingly irreducible complexity in nature always turns out to have a some path of mutations and adaptations that led to the current state. For instance, the canonical example of 18th century teleology, the eye, was touted as being so unimaginably complex that there's the only conceivable explanation for its existence was design, yet today we have a clear picture of how that organ arose from simple photorecptive cells. My guess in this instance? The friction plates that their ancestors have and the other species have got bumpy, then they got more bumpy, then they interleaved.