Re: No dumb questions, only dumb answers.
Originally posted by Flores
Answer us Dr Lou Natic, why is this the case, answer intelligently if you believe in the concept so strongly. I shall repeat the question.
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See spurious monkeys reply.
You live for what, 30 years and are now suspicious that evolution hasn't occured because you haven't noticed any drastic changes in your tiny insignificant lifetime? Its similar to if a 20 year old man bought a dog, in that dogs 10 year lifetime the man would hardly change in physical appearance, the dog would assume thats just how his owner always looks
You think like a dog.
You can probably tell the difference between you and your children correct? Now imagine you're great great great great x a million grandchildren, your line of descendents are going to get more and more different as time goes by. Now imagine you had many many children, and they were all slightly different, one child seemed kind of useless but then a tsunami came and it turned out that child was a wicked surfer, the rest of your children died because they couldn't surf. An expert surfing line of humans has just started to evolve. If your descendents keep getting faced with tsanami's where the only escape is surfing your great great great great x a million grandchildren will be perfectly suited for surfing.
Granted, no family tree is required to ride that many waves, but family trees are required to chase gazelle, find berries, sniff out rotting carcasses etc. Living organisms just naturally get tested in these varying fashions, with the only survivors being those that pass these tests.
This system can sculpt numerous species out of one species, because sometimes more than one of an organisms offspring survive, they seperate and branch out and their offspring end up having to deal with different tests.
Actually that's an excellent question
Actually no, its a retarded and ignorant question.
Evolution is very slow and subtle, so how do we explain the obvious large gaps and differences between apes and human.
Is that even a large gap? Not that it would matter if it was, but it isn't anyway, its a tiny little miniscule gap when you consider some other gaps, that don't hurt the theory at all anyway FYI, but you know, you could have tried a better one. Like hyena's, there is a huge gap between them and their closest relative.
But what you don't understand is it isn't necessarry for the gaps to be filled at all, the species that filled those gaps had no moral obligation to survive longer than they could.
Whats amazing is we do get gaps filled (haha that sounds funny), not litterally but an eye with common sense can see how the evolution of mammals went down just by looking at surviving animals, we are very lucky in that regard. The family tree that lead to humans started at rats(actually its started with strands of the elements that make up life, but thats a long story) from rats its not a big step to bushbabies, from bushbabies its not a big step to lemurs, from lemurs its not a big step to apes and monkeys, from apes its not a big step to homonids(which is where humans fit in). Not that complicated when put like that is it? Of course a scientist would say its not entirely accurate because the creatures I'm referring to weren't exactly rats or bushbabies as we know them. What they were was the ancestors of the bush babies and rats, rats and bush babies are the branches that didn't change as much because they didn't need to.
Your problems arise from looking at evolution as it is written in biology textbooks, and misinterpretting. Think of it on the very litteral scale. You'll find words like gaps and such don't really have anything to do with it. All refutations of evolution I've ever heard have been based on misinformation or the misinterpretting of tricky sentences.
Nothing comes close to touching on earth's theory of evolution, you don't need a book to learn about it, you need willing to learn eyes, patience and a clear head.
SMART ANSWERS PLEASE, and please show the names associated with the so called dumb quotes, or you'll be charged by No! for stealing people's quotes and plagerising.
The quotes weren't from sciforums, and what the hell do you care? Wtf? And who is No!.
Anyway, I'm confident that the people who made these quotes could easily be persuaded to drop any legal action with a simple offering of magic beans.