which is easier to make - a clay lizard or a live one?

Question

if chemicals could evolve into a single cell organism
so why not a Mercedez Benz?

Answer 1

This is like asking: if evolution could produce a beaver, why can't evolution produce a beaver dam.

The fact is evolution -did- produce a mercedes benz, through us.

Beavers produce dams. Ants produce anthills. Birds produce nests. We produce a number of things, including cars.

Tools evolve as a process of natural selection. The rock becomes the hammer, the internal combustion engine becomes the train and the steamship and the car. As the needs of the tool-maker change, so too do the tools the tool-maker creates.

The mercedes is just a tool, subject to the same physical laws and requirements as any other tool. If it doesn't meet our needs, it goes extinct (consider we no longer make Model-T's).

When we run out of oil, all vehicles will evolve again to utilize another source of energy (electricity, solar power, etc).

We are natural agents of change (causing the extinction of the dodo, for example), just as we are the products of natural agents of change (climate changing ecology which impacts our ability to find food). Our tool-making skills have evolved over time to address our need to adapt to changes in climate and ecology. Thus, our tools reflect the evolving nature of humanity (our ability to turn rocks into hammers, our ability to turn camp fires into forges, our ability to turn lean-tos into mansions, our ability to turn floating logs into boats).

And since we -are- the product of single-cell life (our bodies being composed of nothing more than single-cell organisms which have evolved symbiotic relationships over 3.5 billion years), I fail to see how you can argue that chemicals that formed single-cell organisms failed to produce a mercedes benz. Those chemicals -did- produce a mercedes, by first producing single-cell organisms which, through evolutionary processes, eventually produced us.

Now if your question is why didn't nature produce a mercedes benz without our intervention, the answer is simple. A benz does not reproduce itself. It lacks reproductive organs. Anything that fails to reproduce itself goes extinct. A benz lacks an immune system to resist rust, a muscular system to utilize in obtaining food, a central nervous system to detect these problems and respond accordingly, etc. Without us to care for it, a mercedes goes extinct, just like the vast majority of Model-T's.

Answer 2

Lizards would find it virtually instictive to make more lizards, but I'd have a hard time doing it. On the other hand, I don't think lizards are interested in making clay lizards, so I might have a shot at it.....

So it really depends on who's making the lizard....

I don't think the lizard would have much of a chance at making a Mercedez Benz....

Answer 3

It sort of depends on your time and resources.

If you have a mummy lizard and a daddy lizard, it's not so hard to make a live baby lizard - you just need a bit of time, heating, food, licence to keep the lizards, etc.

I wish I had a mummy benz and a daddy benz.

:)

Answer 4

clay lizards are easier because they do not live.
mercedes benz cannot evolve from anything because it does not live.
you must be a living creature to evolve.
All living things are composed of atomic matter from the sun. Therefore the sun is God.

Answer 5

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.

As a general rule though, leave the creation of lizards up to mommy and daddy lizards, or God.

Answer 6

If you are a human - probably a clay lizard (aposable thumbs, artistic abilities, etc.).

If you are a lizard - probably a live one (lack of aposable thumbs, lack of artistic abilities, but having one thing that humans definitely lack - lizard DNA).

Answer 7

For me it would be a clay lizard.

Answer 8

Your questions don't make any sense to me. Elaborate.

Answer 9

Dat is who cannot what is my my?

Answer 10

wtf?