The Lungfish can survive dry spells through aestivation, which is where they create a mucous which hardens around their body and forms a cocoon and they stay alive until the next rainfall comes. These fish are long and eel-like which makes making a cocoon easier.
Has evolution provided the perfect way for this fish to survive the sometimes hot dry African climate or was this the work of something else?
2006-09-23 10:58:48 · 14 answers · asked by genaddt 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
obviously evolution because it's NOT perfect, it works just well enough so that some fish survive to breed.No evolutionary system is perfect because it's all down to chance, environmental, and sexualselection
2006-09-23 11:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by prometheus_unbound 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer of your question can ONLY come by faith. Either you have faith in evolution or faith in God.
The lungfish could be a result of natural processes like some agree with here.
But it could also be the result of a design by God like others suggest.
There is absolutely no way to prove one over the other. Evolution has successfully been the only "science" that is not falsafiable and yet still qualifies as science. By definition, a scientific theory has to be falsafiable to be a theory.
All of the things evolutionists claim will falsify their theory are not falsafiable themselves. The reason for this is because we are trying to interpret the past without observation. Observation is another aspect you need in science. Since we can't observe the past, you can never KNOW what happened. You can only BELIEVE what happened.
I have read many evolutionist essays and literature. Many of them claim that human artifacts found in certain rock layers would falsify evolution theory. What's funny is that these artifacts are found constantly. They are called oop-arts for "out of place artifacts".
However, these same people find a way to disregard these findings somehow. Which tells me that they are not trying to find evidence to enhance knowledge, but evidence to support their belief.
I don't believe those artifacts are "out of place". I think they belong exactly where they were found. The reason they are labelled out of place is because the evidence doesn't fit with their theory. That's not how science is supposed to work. Evidence is supposed to support or refute theories. But, somehow evolutionists make the evidence conform to the theory instead of the other way around.
In other words, they will only look at evidence to support their opinion.
So, the lungfish to them will always be a product of evolution and they could never see it as a possibility for intelligent design.
Faith has always been the greatest hinderance to science. Unfortunately many scientists and people don't even realize that they have faith based beliefs within scientific theories which is defiling their interpretation of evidence.
2006-09-23 18:21:13 · answer #2 · answered by IL Padrino 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everything fits together too perfectly for evolution to be completely responsible for it. Science keeps discovering complexities too deep for just mere random chance, even if you had 4.5 billion years of dice tossing you couldn't end up with the earth as well balanced as it is I think. Balanced even to the tiny life forms like the lungfish.
2006-09-23 18:07:59 · answer #3 · answered by PNG 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, that would be evolution in action. The lungfish evolved from a long line of fish that evolved that strategy. Those that didn't evole it, well they died when the sun came out.
2006-09-23 18:02:25 · answer #4 · answered by adphllps 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh, sheesh. The old 'lungfish' topic. It's been beaten to the ground over and over and over and over and over. Just do a search on google or talk.origins or whatever. There's nothing new here. We've heard it all before, millions and millions of times.
2006-09-23 18:07:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Natural Selection works in Mysterious ways
2006-09-23 18:01:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Everybody who has studied Evolution in school (not church) knows that this is perfection of Nature and adds more evidence to evolution and no god concept !
2006-09-23 18:03:52 · answer #7 · answered by R G 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it amazing what unthinking natural processes can do when they have 4.5 billion years and a whole planet to work with?
2006-09-23 18:01:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well, there ya go. We proved it. Evolution exists. End of story.
2006-09-23 18:01:37 · answer #9 · answered by Ana 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
we dont' know, science is always looking for new ways explanations through tests and observations and eliminating old conclusions for new ones. Science explains what god has done.
2006-09-23 18:03:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋