That means as for an example i live in the motor city, and as chance and accident can i build a car by accident with no plan at all? I mean a car is simplier than microbiology and genetics yet I can`t accidently throw a 383 duster together without a plan???
2006-11-06 03:48:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Congrats on A) not understand evolution B) not understanding the difference between random chance and doing something with a goal in mind.
So, to indulge you, even though I know the only answer you want is "oh man you're so smart, so much smarter than all their PhDs and their science, because you just came up with the best argument ever against evolution".
If you were given enough time, yes you could by chance end up putting a car together. Imagine it this way, I know I'm "TOTALLY WRONG CAUSE GOD DID IT IN A DAY OR SEVEN LOL", but just pretend for a minute.
Imagine you had a puzzle, if you flipped all the pieces over you could, through trial and error end up with the puzzle put together right. It would suck, and take a long time, but randomly combining the pieces would eventually give you the right combination to put the puzzle together.
If you would considering that the time frame for evolution is billions of years and an innumerable organisms (more than 1 guy spending a day putting a car together) (NOTE I KNOW 'OMG GOD DID IT IN 7 DAYS LOL'), the random chance-mutations result in something isn't such a stretch.
Anyhow, yeah, wasted typing I know.
I mean, you just described exactly how cars were made. One guy sat down and made my grand am one day. He certainly didn't modify a previous design. Because, as we know, NOTHING CHANGES OVER TIME AT ALL, ALL IS EXACTLY AS IT WAS 8000 YEARS AGO LOL.
2006-11-06 03:57:11 · answer #1 · answered by John V 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Living organisms are not built without a plan. The plan is known as DNA, and it includes the instructions to the cells on how to structure themselves in such a way as to develop into the organism they will become. The accidental, non-intentional random selection is on the details of that plan, and how they work together. It does not mean there are no blueprints.
To continue your evolutionary analogy into the realm of automotives, consider the development of the internal combustion engine. The original engines were simple, and terribly inefficient, and for the most part, not very powerful.
As time went on, mechanics and engineers modified and adapted the engines. They added things like carburators, fuel injection, turbos, super-chargers, air and liquid cooling systems, and all sorts of bells and whistles that served different purposes.
Today, we have a wide variety of different engines, with all kinds of different gewgaws and gizmos attached. They have been adapted for a wide variety of ecological niches. Some are huge, with massive torque and run on diesel for long-hauling of heavy cargo. Some are small, incredibly energy efficient, and even supplemented by electric motors. Some are built for speed, sacrifising fuel efficiency for raw power.
Looking at an original 1823 Samuel Brown internal combustion engine, and comparing it to the sophisticated, complex engines of a Mack truck, a Toyota Prius and a Lambourghini, you might not believe that such developments and changes would be possible to have those engines evolve from the original ancestor in less than two hundred years, however they did.
No one in 1823 set out to design a Lambourghini engine. The changes and modifications along the way were accidental and non-intentional. Some additions and techniques didn't work, and were discarded. Some made the engines inefficient, but were selected for through unusual ecological pressures (i.e. catalytic converters). Eventually though, the evolution of the internal combustion resulted in the wide variety of engine types we see today, as well as a broad adaptive radiation in the taxonomy of vehicle types.
Following the evolution of vehicle types, from the Model-T to the cars of today, with pick-up trucks, motorcycles, the 4x4 shift to the explosion of SUVs in the '90s, the muscle cars and sports cars, all show a similar pattern. When Henry Ford built the Model-T, he never envisaged all the particulars of the 2007 Ford Mustang, but there's a clear evolutionary history behind every part and piece of the final product.
2006-11-06 06:05:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ah yes, the empty rhetoric of intelligent design. If you could breed skateboards, it would only take a few hundred thousand directed generations to get to a duster. Of course, if you threw random car parts together for four billion years, you'd have thousands of working cars, and might or might not get your duster. Part of the complexity of "microbiology and genetics", as you phrase it, is the result of accrued favorable happenstances. If life had been designed, it would be simpler.
2006-11-06 14:09:46 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The reality of evolution and intelligent design is both are equally true. The debate seems to be the same as our political parties, it either has to be one or the other, when a balance of both is beneficail. Logic tells ust that DNA is not accidental and evolution is merely the adaption of change. Without a political agenda, this concept seems simplistic, but i guess when you have a point of view to defend the world becoms very complex and convaluded.
2006-11-06 03:54:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
But if it is inevitable that a car will form, then it is inevitable, that given enough time, a 383 duster will form. Evolution is inevitable given enough time. It doesn't need a designer scientifically. But that doesn't mean there isn't one, just that there doesn't need to be one.
2006-11-06 07:50:50 · answer #5 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is not accidental. It is constantly guided by natural forces and tendencies. The changes that occur within a given organism may be mostly accidental and random, but whether or not those changes survive into the next generation is anything but random.
What caused these tendencies to come into being is not within the realm of evolutionary biology.
2006-11-06 03:56:03 · answer #6 · answered by marbledog 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Evolution occurs when the species needs to adapt to survive. Mabye to out live a dramatic change in the environment. Mud skippers are a good example. They can live in the water or on land depending on there environment.
2006-11-06 06:15:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Do us all a favor and please do not procreate.
BTW:There is no such word as 'simplier'.
lol
2006-11-06 03:52:49 · answer #8 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because you can't do it does not mean it cannot be done. Nature as been doing it forever.
2006-11-06 03:51:42 · answer #9 · answered by Kenneth H 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
EVOLUTION IS PURELY INTENTIONAL AND NON-COINCIDENTAL
2006-11-06 03:51:18 · answer #10 · answered by jay j 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋