2006-11-09 17:33:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Looks like my question got cut off. There is an expreriment proposed at www.evolutionexperiment.com. I was wondering what others though of the premise.
2006-11-09 17:38:38 · update #1
I don't know if the experiment is worthwhile because there is already plenty of evidence refuting macro-evolution, but people still insist on beleiving this fairy tale.
2006-11-11 15:08:42 · update #2
I don't know if the experiment is worthwhile because there is already plenty of evidence refuting macro-evolution, but people still insist on believing this fairy tale.
2006-11-11 15:09:03 · update #3
It's not hurting anything, but I don't think it's going to convince anyone of anything, either.
2006-11-09 17:48:01 · answer #1 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists don't pass laws. Legislatures do. If you want the experiment to have binding legal implications, you need to have a state set it up. I'd suggest Indiana. The House unanimously passed a bill setting pi as 3.2.
The problem with the experiment is that it is intrinsically impossible to predict the timing of stochastic processes. You are not looking for a mutation -- you are looking for a set of mutations that take a eukaryote to environmental conditions not seen anywhere but harsh microenvironments in all of the history of life. Even in deserts that reach the temperatures mentioned, life exists by avoiding the heat, life exists by avoiding the heat. Even if the experiment could be achieved using Drosophila in 10,000 generations, that is 200 years, at optimum temperatures. (Drosophila generation times vary with temperature.)
While the experiment sounds simple on it surface, its a bunch of hype attempting to make it sound simple to collapse processes taking thousands of years over the vastness of Earth into something that's supposed to take place in a politician's attention span on a laboratory bench.
2006-11-10 02:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Darwinism vs. Creationism?
Intelligent Design or Evolution?
We can settle this."
Right there when it says "we can settle this" it shows that its naive. Creationists will always find an excuse.
Okay, I read it all. It is a stupid experiment. Changing one species into another could take us hundreds or thousands of years. Making a perfect environment for this is nearly impossible. It would definitely be a waste of resources and time. If you DON'T believe in evolution now, you won't ever believe. We have too many evidence as it is.
2006-11-10 01:39:30 · answer #3 · answered by Alucard 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, seems pretty good. Even if it fails what can it hurt? Everyone has all this talk and no action, the fruit flies experiment sounds good.
2006-11-10 01:36:54 · answer #4 · answered by michael N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The basics of this experiment has already been done in laboratories and studied in nature.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html
2006-11-10 11:00:43 · answer #5 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Similar experiments have already been done and shown to produce changes. just one more.
2006-11-10 02:28:50 · answer #6 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
what?
ur question makes no since
but i know this website
2006-11-10 01:36:07 · answer #7 · answered by Donets'k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋