If life appeared spontaneously and developed through natural selection, and that in the cruel fight for survival only the animals which were stronger or quicker than their neighbors survived, while the weaker succumbed. Then how is it that sheep survived. The sheep has absolutely no defense. (Saying they were protected by man is not an option because the animal world existed before man.)
2006-11-15 13:15:25 · 13 answers · asked by Fish <>< 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sheep Rule!
2006-11-15 13:17:43 · answer #1 · answered by beek 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sheep are a necessary part of the food chain. There have to be animals that eat plants around if carnivores are to survive. Without them, wolves would have to eat grass..
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2006-11-15 21:25:08 · answer #2 · answered by pajaro 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well for one thing they have been domesticated. so now in the wild they have no way of defending themselves. but maybe millions of years ago what is now the sheep came from a small mountain goat-like animal and has evolved over thousands of thousands of years of domestication to the present day sheep.
2006-11-15 21:19:35 · answer #3 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same way the other herbivores survived, through numbers and that one animal can feed several carnivores. Only humans kill excessively. Animals like wolf or lions kill only when they are hungry and only enough for them to eat.
2006-11-15 21:19:13 · answer #4 · answered by Dumbguy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Natural selection selects for those best suited by the environment, NOT physically stronger or quicker.
2006-11-15 21:17:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Take a trip to New Zealand and find out. Are you saying then that ants aren't possible either because they are small? Gee you must have paid attention in Science class!
2006-11-15 21:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by Aussie Chick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sheep were domesticated and bred by man to be passive, try catching a wild ram and tell me how weak they are...
And poodles were wolves not all that long ago.
2006-11-15 21:17:32 · answer #7 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer your question...because I think I would get lost in the menusha of your explanation....
Sheep exist the same way pencils do....how's that?
2006-11-15 21:19:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sheep weren't so mild before we domesticated them. Several creatures have been domesticated by man.
2006-11-15 21:20:50 · answer #9 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another crazy attempt to dismiss evolution.
Doesn't prove creation right.
2006-11-15 21:25:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋