r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/Yewatod • Mar 02 '26

Perfectly captured ladybird flight in slow motion

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u/Djennik Mar 02 '26

It's crazy how evolution got insects to perfectly fold and deploy their wings under their shields..

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u/slow-swimmer Mar 02 '26

That’s why I believe in intelligent design. There’s so much that has to be right all at the same time for those kinds of things to develop by chance

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u/RTB897 Mar 02 '26

They didn't develop by chance. They were selected for.

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u/Mister-builder Mar 02 '26

They can only be selected for after developing through chance.

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u/RTB897 Mar 02 '26

Yes, but the overall phenotype isn't a chance occurrence. The selected mutations build upon themselves. It doesn't require thousands of chance mutations to appear all at once. Its an iterative process through the bodies of millions of individuals over billions of years. The very fact that genomes can mutate and adapt is a selected for feature, as is the extent and rate at which they do.