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Furthermore, natural selection happens both by chance and is in many ways predictable. Consider the butterfly example.
Assume this happens before mankind becomes industrialized.
A species of butterfly is living in a valley. This species has blue wings.
An earthquake occurs and the plant the butterflies lived on dies out as a result (too many trees fall over... new predators show up... take your pick). The butterfly searches further and further away for food. Eventually, the butterfly occupies several valleys of a region.
The butterflies inbreed and interbreed and eventually mutate. They change color.
Some are now dark blue.
Some are now light blue.
Some are now blue with white spots.
Some are now a purple-blue.
And the original blue is still there.
Well, let's say a forest fire causes a species of bird to relocate into the valleys where these butterflies live. The birds have keen vision and begin to eat the brightly colored butterflies. However, the birds have a little trouble seeing the white-spotted butterflies.
So, the other four strains of butterfly disapear (predated to extinction) while the white spotted butterfly lives (or even thrives). Given that the predator can't see one of the five species, we can predict that camoflaged species will be the one to survive.
Later on, that bird might die out and then the white dots won't really be that helpful... but the butterfly will keep them until they become a detriment.
It really all depends on the enviroment.
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Which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the ToE! Yes, adaptation and change is a fact of life. People develop freckles and butterflies develop spots. But, no matter how much we change, butterflies don't become humans and humans don't spin cocoons. As far back as you can trace life, butterflies were butterflies. Why is that concept so disturbing to diehard evolutionists?
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2. It's not stating that we come FROM monkeys, it's just saying that somewhere along the line, a LONG time ago, we shared a common ancestor. We evolved in one dirrection, and they evolved in another(to suit different means of survival) eventually we became separate species.
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Totally unsubstantiated. Think about that for a moment. We started out the same but we evolved in different directions.