The test of any theory is whether or not it provides answers to basic questions. Some well-meaning but misguided people think evolution is a reasonable theory to explain man’s questions about the universe. Evolution is not a good theory—it is just a pagan religion masquerading as science.
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
2. Where did matter come from?
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?
13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and threecelled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live?
14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?
2006-11-10 08:12:14 · 15 answers · asked by Derek B 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow, I am amazed at the responses you've gotten so far.
We keep hearing about how people who don't believe in God are supposed to be so much more intelligent than those of us who do, and yet, all we here from these educated people is that you should go to school, or read a book...in other words, they can't answer your questions.
Gee, and even when they admit that they can't answer your questions, they throw in an insult, just for good measure....
Looks as if you've hit a nerve, my friend!!
2006-11-10 08:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
Space did not come from anywhere, space is the absence of matter and energy, nothing is there so it could not have come from anywhere.
2. Where did matter come from?
Matter is the organized formation of energy. There is a force that makes this happen called a Gluon.
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
Gravity is the force that all matter exerts in space, all matter is made up of energy so logic would dictate that it would radiate some type of force. This of course has very little to do with evolution.
4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
Matter is actually not perfectly formed, the force called Gluon keeps matter held together in an almost chaotic state, this is why some thing are so volatile, and why we are able to create nuclear bombs.
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
This is a positive Universe, in a positive universe, energy exist, if not then this would not be a positive universe, it is quite possible that there are universes that do not have energy in them.
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
Matter is not exactly dead, remember matter is made up of energy, and energy has the potential to become more than what it is when the forces of gravity and gluon's are exerted upon it.
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
Life did not learn to reproduce, it is the inevitable out come of the organization of energy, and you can see in nature that there are different ways of going about the reproduction process, some of it is just the way that laws of physics dictate that things should work.
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce? A-sexual reproduction was probably the first type of reproduction, when a cell reaches a mass limit it has to multiple or it will destroy it self, the process is inevitable and a must by the laws of physics in our universe. and happens today inside your own body.
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?) All life has a finite amount of energy to use in a life time, reproduction is a must for the survival of a group, some species actually thrive by living in groups.
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.) Mutations are like playing the lottery, which by your definition I should have won by now. Mutations rarely provide for viable offspring, it's a roll of the dice. Which is one of the reason evolution takes so long.
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor? Of course it's possible, the question at hand is which is more probable based on the scientific data we have today.
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true? All complex life is a bunch of simple lifeforms working together. It is a symphonic relationship and improves the chances for survival, sounds completely logical to me. Don't people live together in groups and work together?
13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multivalued? (Where are the two- and three celled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live? This what natural selection is all about and the influences on the environment. Take the Galapagos aquatic iguana, which was once a land iguana, evolved to be sea worthy is search of food when they were cut off from the main land, this is a theory and is very probable seeing as this island was once connected to the main land.
14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve? All of these things were adaptions to improve the chance of survival. You can not survive for very long if you can not see or hear predators, skin scales and feathers, come one, like I said these are simple cells working together in order to increase the chance for survival, we as human beings work together so that we may improve our chances of survival, why is so hard to believe this is a nature and inevitable out come to the existence of life? If these things were not possible, then there would be no life.
15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?
I have explained all of these things, as far as DNA and RNA, these things are continuously forming naturally in nature, you can take water from any lake or ocean to see this. It's happening as we speak. DNA and RNA, the building blocks of life are constantly forming out of what you call thin air. Of course it is a lot more complicated than that. Certain molecule are simply attracted to each other, it is a natural process and there is really no big mystery to it.
Sometimes things are exactly how they appears to be, and needs no supernatural explanation.
2006-11-10 09:20:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Qs 1-5 have nothing to do with evolution, that's all astrophysics.
I'll take a crack at the others though:
#6- When= 3-4 billion years ago
Where= in glacial ice, or crystalline sediments
Why= N/A
How= natural replicating molecules e.g. crystals/nucleotides
#7- see #6- life is defined by the ability to reproduce, moron.
#8- itself, probably
#9- the GENE has a drive to survive, read some Dawkins.
#10- polyploidy. Look it up, I can't be bothered explaining it.
#11- Yes, so.
#12- You actually don't know anything about evolution do you? This time, look for the Red Queen effect.
#13- a 2 or 3 celled organism would be utterly useless, many algae, (e.g. Volvox) live as colonies of ~100 single cells.
Fish> Amphibians via Latimeria and Tiktaalik
Amphibians> Reptiles via Hylonomus and Westlothiana
Reptiles> Birds via Archaeopteryx and Microraptor.
#14- This is just getting stupid.
#15- Why am I even bothering?
2006-11-10 08:43:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Looks like more than 15 questions to me. The effort to make you understand is certainly not worth 10 points. However, I will try to answer some of #15:
a) The food (in the form of organic molecules) was the first to appear (even before life started). Then the ability to find and eat the food was approximately at the same time as life itself started (micro-organisms do this). Appetite is a rather vague term and it isn't clear how to make the distinction between what a bacterium 'feels' in this area versus what other types of organisms do. Digestive juices (just various acidic compounds) were very early and appear in bacteria also. This requires a certain amount of resistance to those acids and enzymes, but since the amounts are small, it isn't a big deal. Di\gestive systems are a late developement in this scheme of things.
b) Since life is defined by the ability to reproduce and since it is difficult to say that bacteria have drives, the ability clearly came first.
c) The oxygen atmosphere happened first and happened while life was mostly one-celled. Then throats developed as entries into digestive systems. Then lungs as outpocketings of throats. Early lungs were not the only way to get oxygen (modern amphibians get a significant amount through their skin).
d) Probably RNA was first. One model of early life is a 'RNA world'.
e) The bacteria in the termite intestine had flagella long before termites existed.
f) Early plants did not use pollen even though there were insects around. The plants and insects co-evolved.
g) Blood supplies were first. Muscles were next (even jellyfish have contractile tissues). Cartilage was next which eventually ossified to produce bones. Ligaments and tendons developed out of other support structures.
h) Clearly, the need. Any multi-cellular organism needs to keep out unwanted invaders. Immune systems are not nearly as developed in amphibians as they are in mammals, for example.
2006-11-10 09:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by mathematician 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Who has time for any of these answers?
As a believer in evolution, I have the capacity to answer most, but the first few are very difficult and not many people have sound ideas. But that doesn't mean some facit of evolution isn't true. I think it is because of proof that we can see in the fossil records, etc. I disagree with your presumption that the test of any theory is whether or not it answers basic questions. That isn't true. What you described could be anything, you ask me how matter got here, if I say God, does that make it so? No. Does that make the theory MORE valid than evolution, I don't think so. Plus the questions you asked aren't basic. Evolution can answer the question of "What process brought humans to the state in which they are today?" The questions you ask about the universe don't even relate to biological evolution, they relate to planetary evolution (or development).
I would recommend you read an evolutionary text book or take a class. There, some of those questions will be answered.
By the way, the guy under me makes no sense. How does it take more faith to believe in a science with proof than it takes to believe that some supernatural being created everything (evolution does have proof, you may say that it is spotty at times, but fossils, carbon dating, etc. are proof)??? Just the thought of it is impossible to fathom. GOD CREATED EVERYTHING... that is pure faith, no proof whatsoever. Stop using typical christian pseudo-logic and use your brain.
2006-11-10 08:22:06 · answer #5 · answered by Existence 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you can cut and paste empty rhetoric doesn't surprise me. The fact that you don't understand the questions doesn't surprise me either. Since you don't really want answers, I'm just going to attack your fallacies.
1-7. deal with issues that precede evolution.
9. Evolution is not about desire, it's about survival. It's a big world and one of the wats to survive is to expand by reproduction.
10. The language of all life is written in the same four "letters".
12. Genes are frequently duplicated and diverge. Diversity decreases in a stable enviroment which is the force for stability. Your question is worded such that the tail wags the dog. In a changing environment, the diversity results in adaptation.
13 a. Two-celled organisms are present. Diplococci form by incomplete division and are the predominant form of some pathogens. Desmids are eukaryotes which do the same, and you can find them in a pond near you. Expecting three-celled forms in creaures which divide by binary fission is pure foolishness. Once you have the ability to form two cells groups, the mechanism can be extended to larger groups. Why aren't there more two celled organisms? Because larger groups fared better. A few transitional forms remain.
As for the rest of 13-15, I've seen these "asked" (if cut and paste with no interest in an answer qualifies as asking) and answered so many times on Y!A, I'm not going to waste my time on writing something you will ignore.
2006-11-12 04:29:25 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You do realise that the study of evolution has nothing to do with how the universe was formed, yeah? You also realise that it is impossible for a common Answers person to answer that. You would need experts from many fields who have studied years and years about the subject itself. You can't expect an answer.
While you're at it, why not ask where Cain and Able's wives came from if no females are listed? Their sisters? So incest is perfectly alright according to your bible? Ick. Gross and not converting even more.
Where did Satan come from? Oh, that's right. Misstranslation.
Where did Christianity come from? Where is Jesus burried? How can you tell he died a virgin if he wasn't a girl with a hymnal thread? How do you know that your bible is correct? Where are the hard facts to prove it true? Does peer pressure really work?
Why was Lilith created? Why is woman lesser than man? Why is only man listed under the "lines" in the bible? Why are there no female saviors? Why has no female been talked to by angels? Why do you follow a religion who's bible has sexist conotations within it? Why does christianity think its so special that they should have rules made to make them happy?
2006-11-10 08:20:33 · answer #7 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You''re not really asking questions at all. What you're asking is tantamount to a request for an education in philosophy, physics, chemistry, math & biology.
We can start with a course on REAL basic questions. And to that end I'd request you read "Science & Religion" Edited by Paul Kurtz, which addresses the central themes you touch upon in an abbreviated, but substantial format. The authors are from various fields of science and philosophy.
Once you've finished and understood the text, we'll take up any surviving questions. Deal?
2006-11-10 08:34:07 · answer #8 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are far too many questions here to answer, but I can tell you at least the first 7 have nothing to do with evolution. If you are truly interested in these things, than go to school and take a bio class.
Edit:soon2BMiller:
I have a BS in biology. Many of his questions are very simple to answer, many do not relate to my area of learning (or evolution for that matter). My answer was in-fact a copout, but not because I am ignorant of the answers. It is because I feel it would be a waste to have to put so much effort into an answer that the asker will probably not even read.
2006-11-10 08:16:37 · answer #9 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
well no, because we don't naturally wear tigers, we don't naturally go hunting something we are not going to eat. We don't naturally produce CO2 that may cause the extinction of polar bears and other animals who live in that environment. It is not natural to hunt and stuff an animal just to set it on a wall as a trophy, The fact is that deforrestation is not part of natural selection, so you interfere more when you destroy the habitat of a species that would not be endangered otherwise. I know this is not the answer you wanted, but you know it is the best one
2016-05-22 03:25:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Professional scientists have spent their entire careers answering a small detail of a single part of one of your questions. There is no way I am going to begin to try to answer the entire thing here, especially since you are not asking these questions in good faith.
To you, they are rhetorical questions that prove your point ("God Did It"). To anyone with any knowledge of biology whatsoever, you are just advertising your own willful ignorance.
Also, there is no reason to post this under "Religion and Spirituality-" except that here might be the only place you would get any supportive replies. If it is really a science question, it should have gone in the science forum, where it would probably be flamed and thumbs-downed into oblivion.
2006-11-10 08:25:26 · answer #11 · answered by randomstupidhandle 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋