Two of our foremost modern evolutionists have failed to explain to their own satisfaction the advantage of this extraordinary procedure [meiosis] for the individual organism. . . When we try to solve the paradox of the cost of meiosis, perhaps instead of worrying about how sex helps the organism we should search for replicating `engineers' of meiosis, intracellular agents which actually cause meiosis to happen . . . Although at present it is just a joke to picture chromosomes being dragged kicking and screaming into the second anaphase by ruthlessly selfish centrioles or other miniature genetic engineers, stranger ideas have become common place in the past. And, after all, orthodox theorizing has so far failed to dent the paradox of the cost of meiosis.
Richard Dawkins.
Of all evolution's pesky problems, for instance, irreducibly complex structures and organisms, design without a designer, etc., etc., meiotic sex, and meiosis and polar body in particular, present the ultimate Gordian knot. They standout like a sore thumb challenging materialistic scientists to put their money where their mouth is and explain why organisms would pay so high a cost for meiotic sex when the smartest mammals around, with the fastest computers, and the best educations money can buy, can't, for the life of them, even dent the paradox of meiosis and polar body. Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan second Richard Dawkins:
At first --- even second-glance, this kind of sex [meiotic] seems a superfluous and unnecessary bother. It has none of the virtues of the free bacterial genetic transfer associated with the world-wide microcosm. In the economic terms that biologists have used to describe it, the `cost' of this kind of sex-producing special sex cells with half the usual number of chromosomes, finding mates, and timing and performing the act of fertilization-seems all out of proportion to any possible advantage.
Perhaps the scientists should set their biology books aside and look at what the greatest Book ever written has to say about meiosis and polar body as it relates to Messiah?
John