How Does a Mouse morph into an Elephant via Darwinistic Evolution?

Question

My apologies for offending the faithful belrivers in Darwin ;)

"beleivers" - typo correction ;)

"believers" -typo correction again ;)

Answer 1

Good point...

Darwin's theory has many such "loop holes" or "missing links" (and that (mouse to elephant morph) is not just one link but many links) that can't be rationalized except by those who are "religiously" scientific and can't see that a scientific theory is never a "perfect" formula or equation of the reality of the physical world but is a "work in progress", a model, an approximation. The truth is still to be discovered and it will always be thus!! Most scientists know that.

Faith or dogma on the other hand, is "finished" and is an eternal "fact", inspired by the "GOD" of your choice, and will either stand or fall but will not bend. Hence so many dead religions and no "dead sciences" but a plethora of "dead theories" and "
dead ends" that sometimes come back to life in later centuries. There are so many contradictory dogmas inspired by one GOD or another, and not supported by any, or little logic, that it makes the head spin.

With theories, one can debate in respect and with an "open mind". With faith and dogma, one is "right" and/or one is "wrong" and it is "black and white", the good versus the bad, the "heaven-bound" versus the "hell-bent" and the respect and the "open mind" is as gone as the NEWFIE (New-foundlander) on the ocean, who marks the "good fishing" spot by putting an "X" underneath his dory (boat). So his buddy asks him: "What if we don't take the same boat, tomorrow?" Which one is "dumb" and which one is "dumber"??

With faith, (without compassion, charity, love, and empathy, the conversation deteriorates to "insults" and name calling and even to violence and war, as we have witnessed over and over in our lifetimes and in reading the history of our "civilization", in one can call it that (civilized)!!

The history of war is the history of Religion. Religion has dogmas and does not bend. Science has "theories" and bends too much as it is forever changing and now even deals in terms of "probabilities" and "luck" or "random". Science will forever be changing to adapt to the current source of funding and/or the technology available. Religion will hold on to it's tenets and would rather "pray" for "favours" from the ONE God, as a beggar than use the "intellect" that most religions see as the "great confuser", the "great deceiver", or Satan or the devil. And there is some "truth" to that religious stand. The intellect is not equipped to make a "moral" stand and can accept either poles or extremes of an issue and debate them with "scientific" evidence and "proof". The intellect is like a "binary code" with a 1 and 0 as the two choices and the "mind" can defend it's choice of either one quite "logically" and even with mathematics on it's side.

Morality is not a tool of the "intellect" but of the "spirit" or the "conscience" or "consciousness" which is made up of "what we are born with plus our environment.

Dawinism will not be able to defend itself on your point and will not try, but will continue researching and looking for the "more right" or closer answer like a homing torpedo, that does not know where the target is but through a system of "negative feedback loops", continuously adjusts its course until it hits "close" to the intended target. Religion will give you a "pat" answer such as "Jesus is the answer" or "God says"....To some it's what they need, for others, they need more and will go on looking for more....The job of the "MORAL" person (notice: I don't say religious) is to LOVE that person who is not satisfied with the pat answer: "god made it like that"

The Cyborg can see both points of view and agrees with both on some "points", with one other the other on some points and with none on other points....

LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, SPEECH and CHOICE!!!

Cyril Borg, the Cyborg...

Answer 2

African or Indian? No.. I will not get all Monty Python with this question.

It wasn't mouse to elephant. Unfortunately, the evolution of elephants is not as clear as some other mammals. There is an apparent close relationship with sirenians (dugongs and manatees) and hydrax.

I'll start with eomaia from about 125 million years ago -- the early Cretacious period. This was a mouse sized creature but did not resemble a modern mouse. That is your "mouse".

By 30 million years ago, there were tusked pig-sized animals roaming Africa.

Gomophores appeared in Africa about 20 million years ago and stood 6-7 feet at the shoulder. They had upper and lower tusks.

Primelephas resembled modern elephants more, but still had two pairs of tusks.

I wish I could say more, but I don't want to state more than the evidence allows.

Answer 3

Evolution is a theory, and yet to be disproven. Obviously this is a fanatical question, but to answer, you can't throw away evidence as if it were nothing and expect to be taken seriously.

Simply, God created the earth. Therefore anything we find on this planet must be from God. The rest is left for us to discover, and even wonder at. If evolution was part of God's creation so what???

Genesis was never meant to be about HOW but about WHY and by WHOM. As I have said before, there is nothing in Genesis about cell structure or DNA, the fundamental unit of all life. But it exists and science discovered it.

Why are fanatics so afraid of science??? Does it really rock your faith that much?

Stop focussing on the HOW and have faith in WHO did it. The rest becomes irrelevant and you are left free to be amazed by the complexity in which God created this world.

As for the mouse thing, I have yet to meet a colleague who takes this seriously, or talked to any that consider it little more than a laboratory joke.

Answer 4

Because our species is a fairly new one compared to the age of this planet. It is almost impossible for anyone to know for sure the affects of time on life. We must look at the physical data around us to gage such a thing, although the theory may have some errors in it, it is most probable that it is the most likely theory on the beginning of life.

Answer 5

also how do you get to the undergo? or wolf like creature as some declare. A unmarried cellular developed right into a plant a plant developed to an animal, animal developed right into a undergo. someplace in there something became right into one billion diverse creatures. honestly a technology that appears like a fairy tale. now to not instruct all technology posters in college after I went were discarded. Wasn't technology then both.

Answer 6

LOL

Maybe they were the first to discover naturally occuring steroids that caused a huge evolutionary shift. And their need for peanuts spawned a generation of elephants with trunks. After they started gaining weight then they needed a way to be more attractive so they spawned tails. Then they decided they wanted to dig for more food cuz they got more hungry then they spawned tusks to dig with.

Evolutionary is fascinating and fun to theorize isnt!?!?!? I guess you can do that with any fake theory out there that doesnt have a solid foundation of scientific evidence!

Answer 7

Others have answered your question better than I could, so I'll take the low road here...

Your typo correction is incorrect; its believers.

Answer 8

Lots of Wheaties

Answer 9

Different species don't morph! But, you can see how a mastedon "morphed" into an elephant, for example.

Answer 10

The goddess of evolution waves her radioactive wand over the mouse and "poof!" add a few million years and you have an elephant. That's what She did with a frog like creature that turned into a Prince who was the first man. Simple, no?