I'm curious: if tomorrow someone discovers that some parts of the genome are encoded with RSA cryptography, will the argument of "mutations, time and selection pressure" still hold? The same handwaving applies :-)
The convergent evolution of pitcher plants is an example of this. There are a number of features that evolve to the same functionality in plants, and many of them have to work together to become fully functional. Yet we see in plants separated by vast distances and millions of years of separation that traits that are useless alone encode themselves and then will will have near spontaneous usefulness when some other gene evolves.
The laws of large numbers are not things the human mind really grasps well at all.
The convergent evolution of pitcher plants is an example of this. There are a number of features that evolve to the same functionality in plants, and many of them have to work together to become fully functional. Yet we see in plants separated by vast distances and millions of years of separation that traits that are useless alone encode themselves and then will will have near spontaneous usefulness when some other gene evolves.
The laws of large numbers are not things the human mind really grasps well at all.