**Why on Earth....?!?

Question

Why on earth do people think evolution is "chance"?!?! The strongest survive - if you have a trait that is valuable, you will continue to reproduce to pass on that viable trait (for those that don't understand I'll dumb it down: Giraffes. They didn't have long necks all the time, but due to competition for vegetation, the ones with the slightly longer necks survived because they were able to reach places others couldn't. Therefore all the stumpy necked ones died off) This is only ONE example of millions!

"Natural selection is the process by which individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with unfavorable traits." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection

It is called natural selection not "chance". Tell me why you think it is chance?

(Lets think outside the box & not say cause evolution is a theory blah blah blah. If you can't think of a logical explanation why you think/don't think evolution is "chance" than don't bother answering – stop wasting your time)

Answer 1

I've never met an anti-evolutionist who understood evolution.


they throw words around that they don't understand
they parrot arguments which have been completely invalidated
they even insult their own god with "God of the Gaps" positions


in short, they're idiots.

Answer 2

The chance part comes from the origin.

The randomists say it is a throw of the dice.

It is serendipity.

A lucky accident.

Evolutionists then say it changes based upon needs and environment.

According to this theory, MAN and WOMAN will eventually have less need for sex as the average human only has 3 - 4 children, yet woman can reproduce for 30 or 40 years.

Sex is the biggest downfall to evolution.

Man, human man, can have it 3- 4 times a day even though is serves no purpose

Dogs and cats stop having sex with a female the moment she gets fertilized.

If evolution were truly right, human males would only want to have sex on the three or four days human females are fertile with an egg.

The fact that sex has become a gratitous bedroom sport proves that evolution is bunk.

Man is defeating the system of natural order.

Or it means that man (male) was designed to make as many females pregant as possible.

Thus evolution supports harems.

Darwin's theory as applied to man justifies polygamy.

Answer 3

*sigh* Natural selection is viable in Christianity. You have a bag of blue and red marbles, you get rid of the blue, all you're left with is red. That's simple logic.

However, what natural selection does not take into consideration, is adaptability as a method of survival. The 'stumpy necked' giraffes would still be quite capable from eating from the shrubs, whereas the long-necked ones would eat from the trees. They would simply become two kinds of giraffes, but still they exist as just that, giraffes.

What is not logical is evolution (that is, macro-evolution... the creation of something completely seperate and new from its predecessor... speciation). That is, "lizard to bird", "cell to eye", or "non-life to life".

Explain to me, if evolution is true, how a clumped group of exterior skin cells can become photosensitive, have a specialized nerve capable of transmitting a brand new sense (light), and have a brain capable of interpreting this new sense, all appear at once. There are some systems that are irreducably complex. All three *must* appear, at once, for a new system to work and prove advantageous to a creature. If it does not, the system will fail, and actually, prove to be a hinderance to the creature (as now it has a sensitive and easily injured cell-cluster, but no purpose for it... it will soon die as some other creature attacks the weakened spot).

Remember, for evolution to be true, every new system, every new sense, every organ, must be in a perfectly working condition, and pre-programmed within the body or instinct to function, upon its very first attempt in its very first individual, and that individual must be lucky enough not to get eaten before it passes on its genes. Otherwise, it becomes a hinderance, spending precious amounts of energy it could use elsewhere, on other, more vital and refined systems... meaning the one-in-a-lifetime chance of a minimalistically working, yet irreducably complex, trait is now gone.

Now... we see everyday life full of successful 'evolutions'. Where are the fossils with the failed mutations? The one of the monkey who would be better suited as a six-legged creature, so it'd be advantageous to swing through the trees faster? The one with the partially developed nasal cavity, but no sensory capability for scent (or vice versa! having the capability of scent, but no organ with which to interpret it!)? The one of the giraffe before its arterial sphincters evolved, and its head exploded from the gallons of blood in its brain the first time it took a drink?

Every creature that has ever existed was created perfectly and completely. Only through time, has there been a loss of genetic information... never an increase. Sure, I might be *more* data than, say, a tomato... but the type and variety of data I bear has not increased from the time my ancestors fled the Great Potato Famine, nor from the time my ancestors came over on the Mayflower, nor from when they raided and pillaged villages, nor from when they spread out from the Middle East, nor from the time they ate a certain fruit the very first time. It has only decreased.

Answer 4

In a nutshell, we are the earth. it will be no wonder that provided that a chain of beings advanced on the floor of the earth, it ended up ultimately observing itself as residing on the floor of the earth. What will be magnificent is that if we got here across out that we were made from understand that ought to no longer be got here across everywhere on the earth. instead, we are actually the borrowed organic and organic remember of the earth, and by some potential we are also harvesting knowledge even as making use of those borrowed resources. that's the anthropic theory, actually. There should be no wonder that an advanced species pronounced itself found in the international on which it advanced. What should be more beneficial magnificent is that given the stern actual guidelines governing the formation of life, that life change into even allowed to variety in any respect.

Answer 5

Actually I believe in evolution and Im a Christian. Many make the mistake as distinguishing Christians as not believing evolution, that is a misconception. I believe God had a plan and very direct and diliberate plan. If you simply take this earth you'll see throughout history that things have evolved but why? Well my theory is consiousness. Gods plan in my eyes is for what it created to become more conscious, smarter, more aware. We started of on this earth with 1 celled organisms, then multi celled, then jumped to dinasours with small brains, then came mammals with bigger brains, then an even bigger jump in the mammal evolution were apes with the biggest brains yet, but evolution took its greatest leap with the evolution of humans...beings capable that they are aware they exist. With that we humans are not done, thru the years we have grown more and more aware and intelligent of our surroundings and we will continue to. We only utilize 10% approx. of our brain, this is just the tip of the iceberg and I believe this is Gods plan for us to become more conscious, more aware of eachother. However be careful intelligence is both good and evil so we humans must make the right decision, so please get rid of this notion that Christians dont believe in evolution, God has a plan for us, you just might not realize it.

Answer 6

I looked that up about giraffes? The short horn ram survived right along side the giraffe. How did he survive without the long neck? That one doesn't make any sense. Just as most evolutionists don't. It takes more blind faith to believe we just happened than to realize we had a creator.
Most mutations people are born with are not good.

Answer 7

Evolution doesn't exist.

We were designed and have no common ancestor.

Life cam before death. Evolution teaches death creates life.

Before the fall from grace, Thermodynamics were set-a-side to an extent.

Thermodymics are one of the many scientific laws the make all Evolution types Void except one.

Answer 8

I completely believe in evolution. Like you said, it has been proven over time. But too many people think it is "black or white". It's God or evolution, Not both. And I personally think that it can be both ways.

Answer 9

Very good point. Another all-too-convenient example is bacteria--we have to keep inventing new antibiotics to keep up with the changes they make in response!

Answer 10

You are very correct...there is just no denying it!! It's sad that no matter what, there will always be people out there that refuse to accept something that's completely logical. ;0)