<<An unpublished PhD study in the UK considered cichlid fishes:
species from all over the world were collected for study and the
variations were analysed. They showed that an extraordinary
range of variations exist - but the picture is a mosaic involving
different combinations of a limited number of characters rather
than a spectrum of characters without restrictions. >>
This is an extraordinary confirmation of limits to change evidenced by the
fossil record itself, and precisely the sort of thing Design theory predicts.
<<No scientific investigation has ever confirmed the assumption,
and what evidence there is suggests the contrary. One line of
evidence comes from the observation that all organs of animals
and plants are extraordinarily complex, and are composed of many
interrelated elements. Whether we think of the eye, the ear, the
nose, or any part of the body - a few mutations can be allowed,
but too many leads to the complete loss of function. The
mysterious complexity of living things is an indicator that
unlimited variation is not possible.>>
Well said, and well supported: "The science of the past forty years shows that
there is no reason to think that complex systems can be produced in a
nondirected fashion. This is based on elucidation of the systems themselves
plus a failure of the scientific community to publish detailed models of such
assembling for ANY complex system. Theories of undirected evolution have hit
the stone wall of biological/biochemical complexity...No paper has ever been
published in the scientific literature in which a complex biological structure
has been explained in testable detail." (Michael Behe, Lehigh University).
"Randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or
boring and uneventful simplicity." (Paul Davies, University of Adelaide,
Australia).
Jim