If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beet… - J.B.S. Haldane

An inordinate fondness for beetles.

If He exists the creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he’s unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Where natural selection slackens, new forms may arise which would not survive under more rigid competition, and many ultimately hardy combinations will thus have a chance of arising. ...Thus the distinction between the principal mammalian orders seems to have arisen during an orgy of variation in the early Eocene which followed the doom of the great reptiles... Since that date mammalian evolution has been a slower affair, largely a progressive improvement of the types originally laid down in the Eocene.
Another possible mode of making rapid evolutionary jumps is by hybridisation. ...hybridisation (where the hybrids are fertile) usually causes an epidemic of variation in the second generation which may include new and valuable types which could not have arisen within a species by slower evolution.

No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.