Science postulates that humankind came into existence by evolution.Why did the clock of evolution stop abruptl

Question

Charles Darwin postulates that humankind became existent through evolution.Why then the abrupt stop after we became human beings?why then is that the offspring of a human being remains a human being today,while those of an ape still remains an ape?If evolution could produce a complex entity like a human being,what stppped that same evolution from producing coputers,ships and aeroplanes?

Answer 1

I would get into this but I hate the fact that there are those die hard people out there who always have to argue GOD vs. SCIENCE.

Answer 2

First, Darwin was never a scientist. He went on a trip to different places around the world and gave his idea of what could be as far as how things adapted to the environment. How do you get human from ape? There is some similarities but that is all you can say. How do you explain all the missing links between some species of animals claimed to be forerunner and end result of time and evolution.

Second, how did Darwin become such an expert in the first place? He could not have been at all since he did only travel to the exotic places seeing so many different variety in creatures. And from this we get evolution?

Get this straight. Darwin was a ordinary man who did not make a real discovery just came up with an idea that still to this day is shut off by a lot of people as nonsense.

Answer 3

Who ever said evolution has stopped. Evolution is a very, very slow process that is not measured by change in an individual organism but rather in populations over long periods of time. With regard to the last question - computers, ships, and airplanes are made by man and have also evolved by a different mechanism. The mechanism of evolution works by changes in the genes making up a population over time favoring desirable traits and disfavoring undesirable traits. These things are done by selecting what works and does not work in the case of machines. Incidentally, creating a dynamic changing an evolving world would sure be a good sign of God's creative genius.

Answer 4

Evolution has not stopped, but continues and will continue indefinitely. Evolutionary changes are most visible in isolated populations, where the gene pool is not refreshed from outside the local area; the most recent example of this in H. Sapiens is probably the development of different races. Evolution is much more visible in agricultural products: virtually every commercially important plant or animal is much evolved (with the aid of human, not natural, selection), many to the point that the derived strains are no longer cross-fertile with the original wild types. There is much more to this; see e.g. Dawkins for details.

Answer 5

What makes you think evolution has stopped? Your lifetime is not long enough to see the effects of mutations, that over millions or years, may produce a new species.

Computers (the brain), ships (fish) and airplanes (birds) are not living things, and could not be produced by evolution. But notice there are equivalents that did evolve.

If you don't believe in evolution, go dig a dinosaur bone out of the ground. Where did it come from?

Answer 6

are you retarded? producing computers, ships and airplanes? Anyway as for the first part of your question.. evolution is a slow random process. Evolution occurs when a trait that an offspring happens to have through random mutations are favorable to some aspect of that species survival. We are evolving. Think of this, if we keep going as we are the sun WILL kill us, and well before it burns out in a glorious fireball, at some point possibly there will be someone born with some trait that protects it from the sun, and that favorable trait will ensure survival. That's evolution.. and its bound to happen.. but if you expect it to produce a higher definition Television I am sorry you wil have to rely on the Japanese for that evolution cant help you there.

Answer 7

The absolute answer is that evolution is a response to changes in the enviornment. Living organisms, plants, animals, etc., adapt to the changing environs. Sometimes it is very slow, but other times it can be perceived in several generations. One of the postulates that evolution did (does) occur is a species of moth in England. I forget the exact species. The story goes that the moth adapted to hiding on trees prior to the indutrial Revolution. It had a light color and was well camoflaged on the tree bark. Once in a while a dark moth (mutant) was hatched and tried to hide on a light colr tree. It was quickyl spotted and eaten. The mutation could not get a foothold becuase you cannot pass on your genes if you don't survive. During the Industrial Revolution they started burning coal. One of the reults of burning coal is ash. The increased ash in the air caused the tree barks to darken (simply due to a build up of ash). Now the light moths were easy to spot, but the mutant dark moth were better camoflaged. As you have guessed, the dark moths multiplied and the light moths died out. The same species changed color, mutated, or better yet EVOLVED, i.e. a mutation resulted in a successful adaption to the changing environment.

Answer 8

I won't belabor the point that human evolution hasn't stopped, many other posters beat me to it.

But, in a real sense, evolution has produced computers, ships and aeroplanes. First, WE are a product of evolution, and we produce aeroplanes, ships and computers, so in a very real sense evolution produced these things, just as it produced our eyes, hands and brains. If you can't understand this point of view, you need to think harder about what evolution is and what it does. Secondly, evolution HAS directly produced computers, ships and aeroplanes: we call them brains, fish and whales, and birds and insects, respectively. The passengers on these biological ships and aeroplanes are the cells (and their resident genomes) that ride within the animals in question. And, if you don't think brains are computers, just wait 10 or 20 years and watch what AI researchers come up with!

Answer 9

Evolution is still going on. It's too slow for a casual observer to notice, just as it always was, but if anything it's faster now than it was before humans appeared. Natural selection is a response to changes in the environment, and we're changing the environment much more rapidly than nature did without us. We went to Mauritius and NZ and wiped out flightless birds. We brought rabbits to Aussie, industrialised, covered the landscape with soot and moths had to evolve darker wings as camouflage. Man only spread out from Africa 100 000 years or so ago, but already the different human races have different skin colour and physical features to deal with different climates, so Africans have wider nostrils than Inuit because they don't need to warm air before it enters their lungs. If you've ever visited a Buddhist or Hindu country you'll have noticed that wild animals there have little fear of humans. They have no need to instinctively run away from vegetarians.

Answer 10

Well actually that's not true. People have been evolving all along. We are smarter than our ancestors, we are much taller. Have you ever been on the USS Constitution in Boston or the Mayflower in Plymouth or the old homes in Plymouth. The tallest was about 5'. The beds are small, the doorways are small. It is amazing to see. So yes we are still evolving. I'm not sure I understand the rest of your question, we have produced all of those things. Evolution hit times when it slowed down and time when it accelerated. I hope this answers some of your question

Answer 11

It didn't stop abruptly. Evolution takes many many many generations. When organism like bacteria reproduce rapidly and have very sort lifespans, it is easier to see how favorable mutations take hold in the gene pool so that the batceria can evolve and then become resistant to antibiotics.

Humans have a very limited number of offspring and relatively long lives. It takes a very very long time for any new favorable genetic difference to impact the human gene pool in a significant way.