The Relationship Between Natural Selection and Mathematical Problems

Natural selection would not be expected to make things in the shape that they would need to be for some future use. But if you were to build a system like the flagellar motor, you need 30 proteins that fit together in an integrated fashion. Each one of those proteins requires a long stretch of genetic information to build the protein. And so what you're talking about is not just, you know, some bent hammer or something sitting around doing nothing. You're talking about a need for genetic information that's sufficient to overcome these long odds against building the protein in the first place.