Does evolution have direct answers to the following elementary questions:?

Question

How does a big bang explain the innumerable amount of species of living things? Why is there sound and taste? And how did they evolve? Why do some creatures fly, while others swim, and some slither? Why do some creatures have two legs, while others have four and some eight? Why are some species predators while others are prey? Why do some creatures hibernate year after year while others must continue in motion to survive? Why do birds build nests, beavers construct dams, and spiders spin webs? Why are there millions of galaxies and trillions of stars? Why are there springs, rivers, and oceans? Why are there four seasons? Why does sand gather along the coastal shores and in the midst of deserts? Why do birds sing, wolves howl, and cats meow? Why is the world so colorful? Why are there a multitude of foreign languages? Why is the human brain more complex than the most powerful computer? Why do Humans have a conscience while animals have basic instincts? Why does nature possess certain natural laws while humans form laws to govern society? How did all these things come to be and why?

Answer 1

Your parents must have really HATED the encyclopedia salesman when you were a child.

Evolution explains aspects of a few of your questions, but others have nothing to do with evolution at all.

You are either being deliberately argumentative, have a very low I.Q., or are in total awe at common natural occurrences that science readily explains.

Answer 2

I'll answer some of these, even though you are obviously somehow thinking these questions prove creationism or something.

Big Bang - still just a theory but has little to do with the number of species.

There isn't sound and taste, we PERCEIVE sound and taste. Sound is vibration of air, taste is the detection of chemical combinations. They evolved how they evolved, even if there is a god, it made them evolve. The sense of smell evolved LONG ago, as it is a primary sense for most marine life. Sharks for example rely on the ability to detect blood to direct their movements. Scent evolved from taste, and taste evolved from touch, which I would think was one of the first senses in higher creatures.

Creatures have the number of legs required by their locomotion needs. Creatures that need to use their hands learned to walk on two. Creatures that needed to get into tight spaces like snakes evolved to have almost none.

Species that evolved traits that made them capable of preying on other creatures further evolved to become specialized at being predators. Some of the highest predators are so well evolved for the job they devolved their ability to consume vegetation.

I'm not going to answer some of these questions, you are asking questions like "Why isn't blue red?". Things are exactly what their definitions say they are.

Humans aren't the only creatures that are self aware. Elephants, Dolphins, and other primates have all shown they are self-aware and in some cases able to comprehend their own mortality. Elephants have been observed to recognize their own image in a mirror and show pause when they pass the bones of other dead elephants. Some apes have learned some basic language skills as well.

The world isn't colorful, the world just radiates radiation on all spectrums, and since our eyes are tuned to expect sunlight of a certain color and brightness it balances out the world to look like a balanced array of 'colors'. Mars looks red to us, but if we evolved on mars it would look colorful.

The brain is more complex than the most powerful computer because it has more switches and nodes. Computers will surpass the brain in the next decade though as chips continue to shrink. Thinking computers will happen, it’s only a question of time.

There are multiple languages because prior to the combustion engine the distances between countries were enormous and dangerous to travel. Even in the US where distances have been closed for a long time, accents still exist from one part of the country to the next and will probably take another century or two to vanish.

Nature doesn't contain 'LAWS', laws are what man call theories that are considered to be rock solid and define how things behave. There is now 'law' that says a rock as to fall to the ground - it just happens. We however know that it will happen.

Laws that govern society are an entirely different meaning of the word LAW than above. Laws for society are rules that are generally accepted and followed.

No one knows 100% all of these things evolved the way they did, all we have to determine is evidence of what is and clues left from the past. Some of course like to think that god just created it all the way it is, but that doesn't answer any questions, it just creates more. Suggesting that because 'god' created something it doesn't need explanation would also mean that you shouldn't even ask why you lost or job, or got dumped by your girlfriend. Even if some thing created the universe, then questions still remain - what created that being? What rules govern that being? And how would you answer those?

By studying the evidence of evolution anthropology of course.

Answer 3

When you ask 19 questions all at once that each requires a long answer in order to explain it thoroughly enough for you to understand, I'm tempted to think that you're just trying to pose a question noone will bother spending hours replying to so that you can go "na na na na na na, you didn't give me the answers to them all, so your stupid theories are wrong and have no answers and my religion is right". Be realistic. Even if your religion explains everything with "God did it", scientific explanations are more lengthy and complicated. Strangers on the internet are unlikely to bother spending hours on answering this bunch of questions, especially when they know it won't make any difference, since you don't seem to have an open enough mind to even give the answers a serious thought.

There ARE scientific answers to these question. Ask these questions one by one and you'll get answers to them all. Ask them all at once and I'm sure noone will bother.

And by the way, the evolution and the big bang are two different things and you're mixing them up.

Answer 4

Your cosmological and geological questions are a matter of energy, gravity and fluid dynamics. The big bang dissipated energy. Gravity and atomic forces formed the building blocks of the universe. Rivers exist because water flows downhill, etc.

Essentially all of your biology questions are easily answered by evolutionary adaptation. The variety of creatures, senses, types of locomotion and instincts developed as a result of changes in environment. Different combinations of genes or spontaneous mutations produce creatures with somewhat different traits and physiology (larger, smaller, faster, slower, greener, redder, etc.) When an environment changes, becomes hostile or outgrown, the individuals that can cope will survive and reproduce. Different environments are suitable to different traits. Legs are less useful in the water, fins less on the land. Eyes aren't needed underground. Taste can warn you of poison. Different types of prey require different methods of capture. Creatures develop ways to identify mates, warn relatives, avoid or frighten predators. These are all the result of genetic development based on who can survive their environment and who can't.

The human questions are not all that different. We just have the ability to program our own survival skills rather than rely on pure genetics, but that ability was a long-term genetic development . We have languages because humans were developed enough to use them. Since human language did not pre-exist its invention, it developed differently among different populations. Human brains are more complex than computers because computers have only been around for 50 years. Ask again in a century. Instincts are genetic or learned behavioral traits that tend to help a species survive in its normal habitat. Humans can evaluate their circumstances and alter their behavior at will to suit changes. Conscience is just our self-programmed way to minimize violence and other dangers to our survival. "Natural laws" apply to humans as well as animals. We eat, breath, bleed, etc. Civil laws are generalized abstractions of "conscience" intended to keep peace and minimize conflict, again, for the good of the species.

That's the how. The why? I'll grant that is the province of religion. DIrect enough, or did you really want an answer?

Answer 5

Well firstly the Big Bang has nothing to do with the evolution of species. If you read a little on this subject you would know that.

Secondly science has answers to many of the questions you list above.

Thirdly, if something cannot be explained, it does not therefore mean that a god or gods did it. This is an illogical conclusion I think you will agree.

Answer 6

Actually there is a logical answer to each and every one of your questions of which some really have nothing even to do with evolution, but just science. You believe what you believe because you were told it since birth, plain and simple, end of story. If I told you since you were born that fire was your god you'd worship the sun and kneel each time a candle was lit. You need to do research of other religions first, then science, then philosophy and then yourself and you will ultimately find that what you have believed for so long is a lie for two reasons and two reasons only: To keep you under control and living in fear. Done. be well and good luck.....and email me if you wish to really have these questions answered and have an intelligent conversation. love, Jack.... an atheist.

Answer 7

If you really want the answers to all those questions, I suggest you go to college and take the sciences, or just pick up a few text books, but then, I guess you only went to one of those baptist colleges that only taught you how to ask foolish questions in order to try to prove your book is true. Does the bible have the answers to any of those questions, by the way? Or is the answer you give God made it so, because that's not an answer, but an excuse.

Answer 8

Refer to the answer given by geniusjack, whom I applaud for his clear explanation of religious indoctrination and, therefore, the sole reason why religion persists.
Childhood indoctrination in religion is most irresponsible. Children should be educated in the options and be allowed to choose what they want to believe in when they are sufficiently aware of the world, of human nature and be able to think for themselves. Particularly, when they are of an age where they can ask profound questions and understand the answers.
The lead question here was evidently asked by someone who did not enjoy such privileges as a child and who was brainwashed at a time of life when the mind was as a sponge and when there was no reason to doubt that the adults were, perhaps unknowingly, lying to him.
There is no such thing as a paranormal entity with whatever name you wish to apply. It is a lie perpetrated upon the population to gain control through fear. Once one accepts that fact, the whole religious concept falls to pieces very quickly. Try thinking about that?
Evolution makes sense. It is logical.
God makes no sense at all, It is illogical.

ATHEISM - THE ONLY LOGICAL CHOICE

Answer 9

Big bang and evolution have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other. The question about big bang and how the universe came to be is a cosmology question. THe one about galaxies and stars plus the one about seasons is astronomy. The question about springs, rivers and oceans is hydrology and geology. The question about languages is anthropology. The question about the human brain and human awareness is neurology and psychology.

And yes, evolution answers all the questions you asked about living things.

Answer 10

They evolved that way.
I am a Christian.
The methods of God are not for you to know if you do not wish to know them. But if you wish to know, ask and He will reveal to you how the smallest of things came about. The bridge in human thought and belief, the juncture between our hearts and our heads cannot have this strange rift. You can go through your life not knowing the mystery of life and celebrate with joy the company of those around you and the wonderful place in which we live. To know about a small part of it and appreciate it the more with both mind and heart brings about a fullness to the soul that cannot be dismissed so easily, little one