Evolutionist, what will the eagle evolve into in the future?

Question

evolution is a belief

i could careless about ridicule, I'm laughing

airplane hahaha good one

Answer 1

Ha, ha, Ha....good question....maybe it will become an airplane ...ha, ha, ha..

Answer 2

Who knows? It will take millions of years of slight changes before it becomes anything else. Not all creatures evolve significantly however. There are many creatures which have stayed pretty much the same for millions of years. For all we know, the eagle may not evolve much at all.

Yes, evolution is a belief, accepted by all rational people. It is also a theory, a comprehensive way of explaining something based on facts. It is the only acceptable explanation of life on this planet and has been backed up by evidence and numerous facts which have not been disproved.

Answer 3

That's a difficult question to answer at face value.

One needs detailed information on the various selection pressures on eagle populations in various areas. Even then, the propositions about evolutionary pathways would be estimates and not guaranteed.

After all, selection pressures can change over time.

Also, it appears you have a misunderstanding of evolutionary development. Eagles will not evolve wholesale into another individual species, but populations of Eagles will diverge over time into new species. Whether or not this will lead to an extinction of eagles is one good question; how many species will develop from diverging eagle populations is another.

Answer 4

A super-eagle the size of an F/A-22 capable of resisting small arms fire and living off of nothing except DDT and car tires?

To answer it seriously, probably just a smaller eagle that lays more eggs. We are killing their food sources, and smaller body size and higher reproductive rates are a common adaptation to unstable food supplies and predation. Its like what's happening to the tuna; we've hunted them so much that not only are there no large ones left, the ones that are left just don't grow as big as they used to no matter how long they are given, and they reach maturity faster.

Just as another guess about the eagle, they will also have to adapt to a broad spectrum of pollutants like mercury and DDT or face extinction.

This is only a guess. However, it would also be really cool to go out and test this as my thesis in evolutionary biology...

Why was this in R&S?

Answer 5

first of all, evolution is not a 'belief' it is a fact of nature; natural selection is a theory for how evolution works.

jane j and eigelhorn make some very good points.

iraquisax does not and i would like to address some of the things he wrote.
there are many examples of incomplete or non-functioning animal faculties. whales still have a skeletal structure resembling terrestrial mammals with finger and pelvic bones. benthic (deep, bottom dwelling fishes) have vestiges of eyes that no longer function, as do many cave dwelling species.

the 'eye' first evolved with fishes (the plural for more than one species of fish is fishes). it began as tissue that was photosensitive. they could just detect light and dark. even this was a big advantage. eventually the lens was developed and shapes ans colors could be discerned. there are still fishes that have the photosensitive tissues (called eye-spots), like the hagfish. so do plnaria (flat worms). there is a very wide spectrum of optical abilities in fishes because they inhabit so many different habitats with different lightings. Fish that live deeper than red light (short wavelength) can penetrate don't (usually) have the ability to see red light.

many fishes evolved lungs from a preexisting gas bladder that was used for buoyancy. some fish have a connection from their mouth to their gas bladder. the lung(s) developed to help the fish obtain oxygen in oxygen poor water. even a semi-functioning lung would benefit because liquid water consists of less than 1% dissolved oxygen compared to atmospheric air which is 21% oxygen. the common betta fish breaths air, but the mechanism is different. they have oxygen absorbing organs in their gills.

the mechanism of evolution is sexual reproduction. mutation could be one, too. anything that leads to change from one generation to another. what people seem to ignore about the theory of natural selection is that the new trait that is more favorable is just something that gives a slight edge. it only becomes obvious if something changes in the environment and the trait becomes more favorable.

Answer 6

If evolution were true, why don't we see animals that haven't evolved sufficiently to have an organ or faculty that is incomplete? For example, do evolutionists think that animals evolved over millions of years unable to see until the eye evolved sufficiently to allow vision? Why would it continue to evolve? What function could it serve until visions was possible?

Or what about fish? Why would they evolve lungs? The lungs would be worthless, in fact, they would be an encumbrance, until they allowed breathing in air.

Dinosaurs with tiny wings, rather than fore limbs? Too small to fly, but unable to grasp. Does that sound like survival of the fittest? I would think that being able to grasp prey with fore limbs, would be more useful than wings that were too small to use for flight.

Besides the fact that evolution lacks a mechanism, that it has never been observed, let alone repeated, it just plain violates common sense.

Answer 7

Who knows. Many factors go into a species evolving. It may never change, the changes may be slight and hardly noticeable, or they could be drastic and actually involve the evolving into a completely new type of bird. I know you would love to see a sudden poof and there is your new eagle but any changes that 'might' takes place in that eagle could take thousands, tens of thousands, or more years. We'll be long gone.

Answer 8

The eagle Mark II™

Answer 9

I am guessing the Eagle would evolve into a better eagle IN the future. cal

Answer 10

You obviously have no clue at all how evolution works, what the theory even is at all.

are you aware of how the dog and the cat were domesticated?

Are you aware of what the primitive horse looked like?

Are you aware of how every generation has grown..

The bible people would say that most of us now are "giants"

Jesus was probably only about 4'5.

Why do you have an appendix?
And do you know how bacteria mutate and why we have to keep inventing new antibiotics?

Why do weeds and certain insects start reproducing young with a tolerance to insecticide?

etc.

you need to open a book and pull your head out from your bum.

Answer 11

To the extent that the eagle fits its environmental niche, then there is no reason in the environment to drive natural selection. Natural selection is a fact, and it is the driving force of evolution. You can't reject evolution without also rejecting natural selection. Of course, if you reject natural selection, then you are no different than those who reject that the earth is round, that it orbits the sun, or that we are held to the earth by a force commonly known as gravity.

Go ahead and laugh. There are plenty of us laughing right back at you.