Scientists have tried to prove for hundreds of years that evolution is true. The only way evolution could be true is if there were no missing links right? Well, they have recently spotted teradactyls in Papua New Guinea which means that teradactyls have never evolved and according to evolution everything evolves sooner or later. Because teradactyls have never evolved into other creatures, that makes evolution false. And you say God isn't real....go ahead and explain why He isn't because I think even the scientists are proving you wrong now!
2006-07-14 07:22:52 · 55 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
'Scientists have tried to prove for hundreds of years that evolution is true." -The Origin of Species was published less than 200 years ago.
"The only way evolution could be true is if there were no missing links right?" -I'm not even sure what this means
"Well, they have recently spotted teradactyls in Papua New Guinea which means that teradactyls have never evolved" -non sequitur and amazingly untrue.
"according to evolution everything evolves sooner or later" -Things don't evolve sooner or later, they are evolving constantly
"Because teradactyls have never evolved into other creatures, that makes evolution false." -non sequitur
"And you say God isn't real....go ahead and explain why He isn't because I think even the scientists are proving you wrong now!" -Scientists are not proving that god exists.
2006-07-14 07:25:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 20⤊ 4⤋
AlwaysAtSea I think you are drifting away a little...
1) Where did you get that news about a terradactyl found (I guess you imply alive) in New Guinea? It would have been the discovery of the millenium but yet nobody talks about it.
2) Darwin published his book 'On The Origin of Spieces by Means of Natural Selection' only 147 years ago, you need more than 200 years to talk about hundreds. Evolutionary Theory is a relatively new concept and there are still many things to discover about it.
3) In no way evolution dismisses the existence of God, it only shows that The Genesis should not be taken as a scientific document... so does geology and astronomy.
2006-07-14 07:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by Lumas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evolution doesn't require a parent species to die out. If a species is still successful, it will reproduce. Pterosaurs being found would not invalidate evolution. In fact, this would be an astonishing find for evolution theorists, since we'd have a first hand look at what we've only been able to guess about up to now. Of course, since no one making the claim that the pterosaurs exist is an actual scientist, and no evidence what so ever has been shown that it does exist, you are merely presenting another unsubstantiated claim on the level of leprechauns and woodsprites.
Yeah, Bettierage, you have to love Ray "bananas" Comfort.
2006-07-14 07:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pterosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous 65,000,000 years ago. During their existence pterosaurs underwent considerable evolution - the early rhamphorincid pterosaurs had smaller brains and long tails, where pterodactyloid pterosaurs of later ages, such as Pteranadon, had changed considerably - developing better flying skills, losing the tail, larger brains.
No pterosaurs has been observed on Earth in modern times. They are gone. But even if there were, it is hard to see how this either proves or disproves evolution. Mammals (such as possums) lived on Earth in the Cretaceous, and looked similar (if a bit smaller) to the way possums look today. One should hardly be surprised that a living pterosaur would have preserved many of the species' advantageous traits, were they to have survived into the present day...
2006-07-14 07:29:30 · answer #4 · answered by evolver 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wanna hear?.. No source given in your question.
The Pterodactyls (or Pterodactyloids) were a group of flying reptiles that ranged in size from having a wingspan of a few inches (primitive Pterodactyls) to over 40 feet (12 m) (later Pterodactyls).
Classification of Pterodactyloids were reptiles, but not dinosaurs.
Pterodactyloids lived from the Jurassic period through the late Cretaceous period. Pterodactyls died out during the Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago, during the K-T extinction.
The birds evolved during the Jurassic period and were probably competition for the pterodactyloids.
2006-07-14 19:41:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wait, are you trying to disprove evolution by saying that there are pterodactyls still living in Papua New Guinea? In the details, it sounds like you're saying they found live ones.
But just for argument's sake, I'll assume I'm wrong here and that you mean they found fossils. How would the fossils of pterodactyls in New Guinea disprove evolution? It would only prove that there were pterodactyls living there in the Mesozoic.
2006-07-14 14:58:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't even know where to begin to with this one. Oh that's right, everything you just wrote is completely wrong.
1) There aren't Pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea.
2) Creatures don't just evolve because time passes. They evolve out of a need for their species to survive.
3) Even if any of this were true it would not mean that 'god' created life by default.
2006-07-14 07:29:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Allow me to gently correct you:
1. Evolution is a fact. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html.
2. Science does not deal in proof. Proofs are what mathematicians come up with.
3. Evolution does not require a complete fossil record, in fact, a complete fossil record with no missing links is pretty much impossible.
4. The discovery of any animal that is supposed to be extinct poses no challenge for evolution. Even if they found a t-rex wandering around somewhere, so what? Evolution does not say that any particulat species must "evolve."
I am sorry to say that it is clear that you lack a basic understanding of both science and evolution.
2006-07-14 07:30:02 · answer #8 · answered by noambenami 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Alligators haven't evolved very much either in their whole life span. The reason is simple. Evolution means that when a change happens that betters the life of that animal, then that change is more likely to become the norm. Alligators may be at their best state that they could evolve to in their environment. So there is no room to evolve.
2006-07-14 07:41:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I don't think you understand evolution says that when an environment changed creatures change to become better suited to the environment and out compete the creatures whit out the adaption. If the environment doesn't change or the adaption doesn't give a substantial benefit the other creature isn't out competed and survives. Oh and you don't need the missing links you just use logic to fill in the gaps and it doesn't go in links anyway it's a slow stream of adaptions in a creature changing it.
God isn't real as there is no evidence to suggest he is and if something has no evidence it isn't real. Say no to jesus
2006-07-14 07:28:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋