Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
transitions back again to land ani¬ 
mals. (“The Origin and Evolu¬ 
tion of Life,” pp. 198-202.) 
5. There is as yet no satisfactory 
explanation of the development of 
such organs as the wing, the 
hand, the foot or the eye, even 
granting that thousands or millions 
of generations were consumed in 
the process. Natural selection does 
not account for them, because 
natural selection is based on the 
usefulness of variations to the or¬ 
ganism, and in what way an incipi¬ 
ent wing, especially in the early 
stages, could be of use to any crea¬ 
ture it is impossible to see. And 
it is even more incredible that an 
incipient eye could be of any ser¬ 
vice whatsoever. Le Conte says: 
“But not only does not natural selec¬ 
tion explain the origin of varieties, 
but neither can it explain the first 
steps of advance toward usefulness. 
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