Evolutionists why have we stopped evolving?

Question

why arent our eyes getting better?
why dont we grow wings?

In my last question I said an ape did not give birth to a human. What I meant by this is that it must have happened over a long time, with many stages in between. If we have dinosaur bones, why dont we have the bones of the animal in between? You get excited when you think you have found 1. Should the bones be everywhere? Bones from all animals that have evolved?

(I wasnt listening in biology when they taught evolution like it was a fact, so please explain to me)

Answer 1

Evolution is false, never proven because there is no proof.

Answer 2

With the technology we have there isn't the environmental pressures to evolve. Glasses and contacts have made it where good eyesight is not necessary for survival.

There will be some minor changes but nothing unless there is some reason to - like a major epidemic - some people with better immune systems will be more likely to survive.

We actually have lots of transitory fossils and are finding more all the time - enough now to figure out that birds evolved from dinosaurs, the new hominid just found that shows more of the transition from arboreal apes to land dwelling apes that became humans.

To become preserved as a fossil the animal has to die under certain conditions where it is quickly covered up - this is fairly rare - so there aren't a lot of fossils. And a lot are overlooked - now that it is known more what to look for paleontologists can find more complete fossils and be able to preserve them better than they used to.

Answer 3

We can't evolve because humans no longer undergo natural selection in the same way animals do. Yes, people with defects dying before procreating is like that. But emotions lead to the weak mating as often as the strong.

We could only evolve if suddenly something caused lots of people to start dying. Then the human race would evolve so that people who were less susceptible to the thing killing them would be the only ones left. Technology also muddles natural selection by keeping those who should die according to nature alive.

Answer 4

The answer to that is two-fold:

1.) We still ARE evolving; but it happens on a timescale that can't be directly observed within human lifetimes (except for animals with very short lifespans, like microorganisms and fruit flies and such). Remember: it took THOUSANDS of years to get all the different breeds of dogs we see today, and that was with DELIBERATE efforts on the parts of human breeders; and life has been on earth for a MILLION times longer than that -- so we can and do see changes in species a million times more pronounced than the differences between a chihuahua and a Rottweiler.

2.) We can improve ourselves so much more quickly through technology (e.g.; glasses for vision impairment, insulin for diabetics, etc.) than through evolution; so rather than seeing a "weeding out" of defective or inferior genes, we'll likely see them proliferate throughout the gene pool since there's much less of a negative consequence for having them. This means that any changes you'll eventually see on the human species will as likely be steps BACKWARDS rather than gradual improvements.

Answer 5

well, for one fossilizing is very hard. It's not like everything that dies fossilizes, you need the right conditions and everything. The fact that we have found SOME only betters the evolution debate.

Now we have been living in he civilized world there is no need for evolution. Evolution occurs slowly and in only challenging environments. So an already slow processhas been slowed further by civilization to the point that you wouldn't notice.

Answer 6

We are evolving.
The fossil record is amazingly complete. Your information is faulty. Again even without ANY fossils, DNA would provide more than sufficient evidence to support evolution.
If you want an example for humans of a short time scale, just look at the average height of humans over the past 200 years. On average we are growing taller. I will admit that is not necessarily an huge evolutionary change, but evolution is a very slow process.

Answer 7

We are evolving we grow taller with each generation. The pure races will be phased out for a more mulatto race when it's all said and done. Our immune systems are adapting to the new diseases like the prostitutes in Africa who are immune to aides. Pharmaceutical companies are trying to make an vaccine from there white blood cells. So sticking your head in the sand and covering your ears will not make evolution go away. If it wasn't for evolution insects wouldn't be so hard to control as they couldn't adapt to our new poisons and diseases wouldn't adapt to our drugs.

Answer 8

We are evolving. Studies of modern human skulls shows an enlargement in the average size of the brainpan and skull, to accomodate larger and more folded brains (folds are important -- people with brains that have no folds rarely survive, and live their whole lives in comas).

Fossils take very specific environmental conditions to form. Despite the rarity of them, we have plenty of fossils showing transitional forms.

Now, about eyes and wings. There is no selective pressure on our vision or motility. Therefore, you will see no changes in our vision or motility. Start putting selective pressure on these things and you will start to see such changes. I'm not sure I want to be the one having to kill people just 'cause their eyesight isn't so good or because their back muscles just don't seem strong enough or their shoulders just don't seem to have the right movement towards winged forms, but if you can go killing people for an arbitrary gain of a few organs or changes to existing organs over a few thousand or few million generations, more power to you.

Might wanna work on that cure for aging first though, it's gonna take a few million years.

Answer 9

Have we stopped evolving? Do you really know that? In evolution, changes can take millions of years gradually. Hasn't our society evolved? Who's to say that's not from the ever evolving human brain?

Answer 10

actually you are right to a point

it's the dolphins and other animals that have moved past religion and don't go about killing themselves or disrespecting thier own water and planet, because they don't believe in a new heaven/earth/ocean (hell for them) they treat all with respect

in one way however thanks to evolving I left Xianity and embraced facts over fallacy and faith hype

my own children will not get the scurge of christianity from me and will likely also choose thier own religion, hopefully peaceful and can also continue to evolve to love each other

Answer 11

There are many fossils of the inbetween stages from ape to human. Check out Lucy the first humanoid