Imagination can be a great help or a great impediment to the development of science. It can become an impediment in the sense that it has the tendency to be unrealistic, illogical and anti-scientific. It can make something appear appealingly true without evidence. Examples of unbridled imaginations are myths, legends, fictions, and fabrications, among others. What science does is to challenge imagination to be in accord with nature - that is, to conform to that which we can observe and demonstrate through our senses.

As I survey through different blogs and websites and from conversations with certain friends on the topic of evolution, I can almost always encounter an argument that goes something like, "Life could not have evolved through random mutation". This is supposed to be a short and crisp evolutionist stumper. Indeed, how could random mutations produce all the biological complexity in nature?