who would like to read a quick explanation of evolution simplified?

Question

All species can produce offspring unlike both parents, sometimes this is called mutation, but basically it's a birth defect. Imagine that there were white buterflies who bred other white buterflies but one produced an off white buterfly (slighly darker) and by being slightly darker it blended into it's eviroment a little bit better, avoiding being eating by predators, it survives to pass on it's dark genes. Let's say half of it's offspring are born off white as well, all of them have a greater chance of survival and when mating season comes, they all pass on their genes. Now let's say after several thousand years most of the butterflies are now off white, one might give birth to a butterfly with a birth defect of being even darker, but this helps it blend in even better than it's parents starting the cycle all over again. Over many years of this you could end up with black butterflies. This is just one small step in the evolution process.

Now, what if, as the buterflies are changing colors, thier wings are also getting a little thicker, throught the same process of being born with a birth defect that makes them more able to survive. As they become black their wings get thick, and maybe they even become a little bit smaller. You now have a butterfly slowly becoming something more like a moth.

If human beings had birth defects that helped us survive. Let's say babies born with webed feet (it happens) and the world was flooded like in the movie Waterworld. In the future all humans would have webed feet because the babies born with them would morelikly survive into adulthood and pass on those genes.

Here's to Captain's question. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/a-z/Evolution_of_the_eye.asp

Answer 1

Just because science can't explain how a complex organ like the eye evolved doesn't mean it didn't actually evolve (and thus automatically attributing it to a creator). It simply means we haven't the mechanisms to explain it.

Answer 2

Ah yes, the peppered moth. Please consider the following:

The very prominence of the peppered moth story in the teaching of evolution requires that it be scrupulously accurate. According to Grant and Howlett, "as Biston betularia has served as a paradigm of evolution, it demands the closest possible scrutiny" (Grant and Howlett 1988, p. 231). Yet this classical story of evolution by natural selection, as it continues to be retold in many textbooks, is seriously flawed. In particular, the illustrations which typically accompany the story (like the photographs in Figure 1) mislead students by portraying peppered moths on tree trunks where they do not normally rest. Unknown to Kettlewell, his experiments had less to do with natural selection than with unnatural selection, and the true causes of industrial melanism in peppered moths remain largely unknown.

The classical story, elegant and appealing though it may be, should no longer be presented as a textbook example of evolution in action. If the purpose of science education is to teach students how to do good science, then instead of re-telling the classical story textbooks would do better to focus on how science revealed its flaws.

Answer 3

Explains simply evolution.... but now tell me how something like an eye evolves?

Answer 4

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