If, in theory, all life evolved from a single celled organism, where is the link between humans and broccoli?

Answer 1

Our DNA is the link between human beings and broccoli. If we did not all have a common ancestry then it is highly unlikely that we, humans, and broccoli would have the same exact bonds holding together our DNA (Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine) The chances of this being a coincidence are about the same as finding an exact duplicate of yourself in China with every physical aspect exactly identical to your own born from a different mother the same day you were born, none. The arrangement of DNA is also very similar. The difference of arrangement between such disparate beings as humans and chimpanzees is less than 1%. The difference between humans and boiled vegetables is obviously greater, but not so great as to point away from common ancestry.

If you're trying to say that evolution is disproved because broccoli is a plant and humans are animals that walk, communicate, and change our environment you would be right. However, evolution is not a connect the dots from A to B and so on, and the link between human ancestors and vegetable ancestors is so far in the past that we were all probably still simple viruses and amoebas when the split between plants and animals began. So the link between human ancestry and the produce section is so far in the past that it probably took place way before there were plants and animals as we know them today ever even existed, but the building blocks, the DNA is the connection that points all living things back to the same simple one celled organisms we all came from half a billion years ago.

Answer 2

It implies we all evolved from a single common ancestor, but evolution itself is only the explanatory mechanism by which speciation takes place. Look at it this way, we have evidence that 2 billion years ago there were only single celled life forms on the planet. However by a billion years ago that is no longer the case and there is evidence of multicellular life. We know for a fact that this change in state took place, we use evolution as the tool with which to explain the change, and so far it is a theory which has proven to be damned effective.

Answer 3

Humans eat broccoli. You are what you eat.
The fact that humans evolved tasty sauces to put on broccoli to make it taste better is sometimes known throughout the scientific community as the "missing link". Read a book sometime, OK?

This is also why Adam and Eve got in trouble for making apple sauce from the Tree of Knowledge...God hates advanced thinking skills (especially when it comes to creative cuisine).

Answer 4

To get there we have to go back all the way to Eukaryote, since we split off and diversified after that.

the origin of the eukaryotic cell was a milestone in the evolution of life, since they include all complex cells and multi-cellular organisms. The timing of this series of events is hard to determine; Knoll (1992) suggests they developed approximately 1.6 - 2.1 billion years ago. Fossils that are clearly related to modern groups start appearing around 1200 million years ago, in the form of a red alga.

I suggest you visit the Tree of Life project and have a look around:
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

Answer 5

No kidding! The whole evolution thing just stumps me. I find it far easier to believe that God created it all. After all the bible says God created Man (not baby boy), God created Trees, Fowl of the air and fish of the sea (not seeds for trees to grow or a sapling, or an egg or a guppy)... So I believe God created the whole earth "ready to use" per se. For me it answers the age old question, which comes first the chicken or the egg. Since God created the world ready to use, the chicken (full grown) came first. All this to say that there is NO evolutionary connection between humans and broccoli.

Answer 6

Jimbo asks, "where is the link between humans and broccoli?"

Jimbo answers, "all life evolved from a single celled organism"

Answer 7

Broccoli was in the soup and helped the proteins develop. However there was a second set of amino acids that developed into the Bush family. This second generation hated broccoli.

Answer 8

Few billion years back when the cell wall developed and the nanobacteria that became chloroplasts were absorbed by these cell-wall bearing cells.

Basically, back when the tree of life branched into the zoological and botanitcal concepts.

Answer 9

First it has to be proven that a "single celled organism" can come into being.

Evolutionist say it came about by ACCIDENT. With all our technology and will we cannot create one on purpose.

Answer 10

OK. I don't believe in evolution to that extent. I think at one point we were exteremly dumb and we evoled from cave people to what we are now. Than again I think we are pretty much the same as animals and the only difference is that we know how to use a hammer.