Animals that defy evolution?

Question

How did animals evolve that must have had all of their biological characteristics in place immediately, or else they would have died off immediately - ie: the horse's hooves, the giraffe's neck, and the hummingbird's metabolism? They would have required instantaneous evolution in many physical structures within their body at the same time to have survived. People who believe in evolution just don't want to accept the obvious facts staring them in the face.

Answer 1

Have you considered a basic English grammar class? It's obvious you have great difficulty expressing yourself. What is it you're trying to say? If I read your scribble correctly: According to the bible, which is nothing more than a metaphoric expression of ancient man written more than 300 years after the life of a man named Jesus, the world was created exactly on October 23, 4004 BC.

In a word, impossible!! Evolution proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the universe as we know it was created some 15 billion years ago and maybe more. If you had done any degree of research you would have proven this to yourself without the need to babble needlessly.

Answer 2

Actually, you're missing a few facts. Take the horse's hooves for instance. First there were 5 toe-like structures. Then the "toes" became attached so that there were 3 "toes" per hoof. The the 3 connected into a single rounded bottom.

Let's analyze the giraffe's neck. The giraffe eats from short trees. Those that can reach the higher, more plentiful fruit survive and reproduce, resulting in tall offspring. Each generation, height is advantageous, so the animals with longer necks survive. Over time, the neck goes from small to very long. Structures don't need to evolve together. The giraffe just needs longer neck muscles, but that would happen easily. After all, short people can give birth to tall people without neck problems.

I admit that I know nothing about the metabolism of hummingbirds.

Answer 3

Animals do not actively defy evolution. Evolution is the longer process that is the result of a shorter process that can be tested, natural selection. If you have a male dalmation with particularly big spots and a female dalmation also with particularly big spots, you can breed the two and you might get a full litter of dalmations with big spots. If you continue this process you might eventually develop a new species of dog. Natural selection is evolution on a level that can be demonstrated. Rather than big spots, other features that allow some individuals to survive longer and pass on their genes to a larger proportion of the future generation is how natural selection works in a natural environment. If having big teeth is an advantage, the chances are that some species will evolver into new species of animals with bigger jaws. Some animals are not affected by this natural selection process purely by chance. If a species is not under threat, anamolies in an individuals physciality do not provide an advantage, the individual does not mate too often and natural selection does not occur. Natural selection is a proven process, and evolution is simply the idea of natural selection on a longer scale, rather than a single feature, many features change over time to the extent that dinosaurs can become birds. Edit: Evolution is a proven process in the majority of the known animals throughout the world, but we do not have the complete history of every animal so yes, there are some gaps. Do we really need to fill these gaps with the theory that 'someone must of designed it'? Surely it is more logical to assume that the animals we do not have evidence for did evolve naturally and by chance, but we just don't have that particular evidence yet, rather than to go to the extent that 'there must be a creator'. If you see images in the clouds, that is the result of random cloud formation, there was no artist or sculptist moulding the cloud into shape, it just happened by chance, and you happen to see a particular image.

Answer 4

How would horses hooves or giraffe's necks been necessarily immediate? In the case of the giraffe, it may have been creature eating grass like everthing else. A fluke caused a slightly longer neck, allowing them to reach higher. Since so few animals had this trait, it gave them the distinct advantage of having less competition for food. Over time, the original fluke was populated and exaggerated through generations.

Maybe you should be a little more explanitory- what are these facts exactly? You have to remember that animals evolve to adapt to their changing environment. They are best suited for their environment now, but a drastic change could cause another instance, as drastic changes in the past caused the earlier changes.

Answer 5

Ok, lets take the Giraffe for example: The giraffe is a perfect example of evolution, the neck grew over a very long period of time, there is nothing immediate about evolution, it is a process of adaptation. Why else would dolphin fins reveal finger bones on x-ray? Have you ever looked at your big toe and thought "gee it almost looks like a thumb..."

Answer 6

Alrighty let s see here... A giraffe having a long neck, sure, but you let out the fact that it required a very large and powerful heart to pump the blood up to its brain, but then we re faced with another dilemma. If the giraffe already had a long neck and strong heart, then what would happen if it tried to bend down to get a drink of water? Boom, the blood from it s heart would be pounding against it s brain. Giving it serious brain damage and potential concussions. Therefore, a giraffe would ve had to have been born into existence to have all of those traits to survive. Otherwise, it s long neck would deprive it s brain of blood, the strong heart would ve given it constant brain damage, and the little membrane that cushions the blow from the intense blood beating it in the base of its brain, would ve had no purpose until the strong heart came along. Saying that it all evolved along with the giraffe would be highly unlikely, because as many people know, dead stuff doesn t evolve.

Answer 7

You guys keep trying, don't you?

99.99% of all biologists say that the theory of evolution is the best explanation for the results they see. 99% of you fundamentalists won't accept it.

About 80% of you accept the theory of planetary motion, even though it means the Son of God lived on a planet that went around the sun, not that the sun went around Him. That only took 300 years of constant hammering by astronomers.

Darwin proposed his theory in the mid-1800.s. Maybe by the mid-2100's the biologists will have hammered away long enough to get 80% of the fundamentalists to see that evolution makes sense.

If you are trying to convince us, give it up. We are as likely to change our minds as you are, which isn't very likely. If you are really curious, check a beginning biology book out of the library. You don't have to believe it to understand it.

On that subject, as an example, if you were studying 20th century European politics, you would have to have a basic grasp of social democracy, constitutional monarchy, communism, fascism, and republican democracy. You would not have to believe in them, just understand the theory.

The okapai is an example of a short-necked giraffe, and it is still living. There was a mammal between the okapia and the giraffe, that went extinct about 1200, in Africa. Some tribes still have paintings and woodcarvings of it.

Answer 8

horses did not begin as horses, and giraffes did not begin as giraffes, and hummingbirds did not begin as hummingbirds. hooves, long necks, and metabolism all developed over time and only today are present in horses, giraffes, and hummingbirds.

ie, did you know that human ears developed from fish gills? way back a long time ago, far before we evolved from apes, we came from the sea

Answer 9

I suspect they evolved one attribute at a time. I can't understand for the life of me why evolution is such a big threat to some Christians. I cannot see why science cannot co-exist side by side with faith. For me it does not disprove any aspect of God, including His holy written Word. I cannot be so literal as some are. But I am always open to others' perspectives so please feel free to elaborate on how you think, understanding that just because you call yourself "preacher" I don't concede that that necessarily gives you a shortcut to knowing the Lord.

Peace and grace of Christ to you.

Answer 10

What obvious facts? You haven't stated any facts here at all. Evolution happens when an animal or plant is born with a mutated trait not common to his parents. That mutated animal then passes that trait on to its offspring. If the trait is beneficial to the environment they are born in, than they survive and form a new species. If not, they die out. It is as simple as that.

Answer 11

Your logic is flawed. The final species is through gradual changes there are fossil records of giraffes ancestors that show a gradual lengthening of the neck as well as equine ancestors that show gradual development of the hoof.

Perhaps you should investigate instead of copying and pasting and demanding people to look at facts.