WOW...isn't that amazing. It almost sounds like an intelligence had a hand in this...but wait that's not true because everything evolved from a one cell something billions of years again..WAIT not that I think about it ...that's impossible...maybe God!!!!!!!!!
2006-08-27 23:51:27
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answered by Anonymous
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You have misconceptions about evolutionists. They don't believe it all happened by chance, they believe things EVOLVE. That means that all living creatures slowly (through millions of years) adjust to their environment and evolve over a very long time, because the fittest survive. Not by chance.
The predecessors of giraffes didn't have such a long neck, but because there was so much nutrition to be found at the top of the trees the ones with a slightly longer neck than the rest were able to reach higher up and get more nutrition. They survived because they were "fitter" than the rest. Natural selection. The ones with a short neck died. Then the long-necked ones reproduced and out of their descendants the ones with a long neck got more nutrition, survived, reproduced etc. Basically, it was an advantage to have a long neck. It helped them survive and over millions of years the neck of giraffes kept getting longer. It's all in the genes, it's about the ones with "good genes" surviving and passing on their genes and that way contributing to a very slow evolution. But you'd have to learn a lot of science to even begin to understand this stuff, so I might be talking to thin air here.
2006-08-28 00:40:01
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answered by undir 7
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it somewhat is sturdy! the main important distinction is: Conservatives have self belief in God, smaller government, and private duty. Liberals go through a psychological illness and have self belief (study as dream) that the State (i.e. government) could play the region of God with a view to create a Heaven on earth (the place there is not any pick for own duty b/c the government will make all options for all persons). i'm rather particular that's what the tale above gets at.
2016-09-30 02:04:43
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answered by catherine 4
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I've seen a number of aritcles on the subject of evolution vs. creationist (now being recycled as "intelligent design") philosophy/theology but the website you provided is the first I've read with an Islamic spin. Thanks for displaying it.
I disagree with the contention that it has to be a choice of either conclusion. I can't recall reading anything by Charles Darwin, who gets the credit (or blame by the religious fundamentalists) for founding the evolutionists' school of thought, where he claims it's chance alone that determines a species' characteristics. 'Natural Selection' is a lot more complicated than that. I'd recommend you read some of Carl Sagan's & Gregory Bateson's publications if you're really interested in the subject. I doubt if you are since your question(s) appear designed to provoke controversy, but If you can grasp their ideas you may be able to appreciate CHAOS, THE MAKING OF A NEW SCIENCE. There is a quote in that book by Stephen Hawking regarding Albert Einsten's contention that "God does not play dice with the universe". Hawking claims that "God not only plays dice with the universe, he throws them where we can't see them".
Einstein, probaby driven by his monotheist religion, tried and failed to prove his "unified field theory" but did leave some good quotes behind, like "once you believe you know something, you stop thinking. It's better to consider possibilities". That is my opinion of most religions. They offer simple, comforting but unprovable answers to complex questions. And as for the koala, there are plenty of examples in nature of species that have specialized and found a niche like that. The panda is a good example. Most of them are extinct now, or rapidly becoming extinct, thanks to mankinds' abuse of the environment since the industrial 'revolution'.
2006-08-28 00:49:09
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answered by Anonymous
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It is clear that you have no understanding whatsoever regarding the mechanisms involved in evolution. The evolutionary process is twofold. It involves random mutation and natural selection. We know that random mutation is constantly occurring in all living organisms, it is an observable scientific fact, or do you believe that your god created all the different breeds of dogs! Nature, and/or man in the case of dogs, selects the genetic characteristics that are desirable. In the case of natural selection, nature selects the genetic characteristics that will enhance the chances of survival. In the majority of cases, the mutation is less likely to survive than the 'normal' creature so nature weeds out that mutation and it is not passed to successive generations. In other instances, the mutation may
occur at the same time as environmental changes occur, in which case the mutant gene is better equipped to deal with those changes and the mutant stands a better chance of surviving in the changed environment than the 'normal' animal. nature then selects this mutation which ,in time becomes the normal characteristic. What we see when we look around now is the result of 4 billion years of this random mutation and natural selection, from simple to more complex and specialized as time marches on.
2006-08-28 00:19:37
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answered by Anonymous
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Of course!
I don't think you understand evolution if you think things just have to be made by chance, and if you think that you are not saying things that are not expected and predicted by evolution.
Did you not know?
2006-08-27 23:53:29
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answered by Anonymous
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Evolution has no intelligence and cannot perform miracles and cannot create.
2006-09-04 23:51:14
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answered by Preacher 6
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and what does this question got to do with religion?
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2006-09-04 20:01:07
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answered by Anonymous
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