[Crowbob]

Evolutionary theory supports the beneficial mutation angle. I have trouble with it, however. A mutation would have to occur in a large number of individuals and most of those individuals who did survive to reproductive age would have to also have spawned huge numbers of mutated offspring. Over millions of years those mutated spawn would have had to gradually become the norm.

I admittedly have trouble comprehending a million life-cycles, so that might be holding me back.