Stephen J. Gould of Harvard:
“Organs of extreme perfection
proclaim their value unambiguously; the difficulty lies
in explaining how they developed…how
can a series of reasonable intermediate forms
be constructed? Of what value could the
first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The
dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there
be any edge in looking only five percent
like a [bird dropping]? Darwin’s critics
referred to this dilemma as the problem of assigning
adaptive value to ‘incipient [incomplete] stages of
useful structures….The argument still rages,
and organs
of extreme perfection rank high in the arsenal of modern creationists.”