If so, why are there stil single-celled organisms, fish, and apes? Aren't those the things we've "evolved" from?
2007-02-01 02:26:21 · 25 answers · asked by LENZ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It seems more likely to me that we are devolving judging from some of the questions and answers I have been seeing lately.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-01 02:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Evolution works in different ways.
For example a shark with no competition or predatory enemies doesn't need to evolve rapidly. A cat in the other hand when moved from Asia to England change rapidly the color of the hair to a gray tone, this process of "adaptation" occurs probably in less the 100 years.
We have a bast human bones record to proof that the persons before us are not exactly equal to us. Some of the changes are the high of the body and the numbers of wisdom tooth's.
Remember that we are not better or more advanced than a bacteria, fish or ape, we are just different.
2007-02-01 02:51:05 · answer #2 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By your logic, evolution moves forward in one direction, one transition at a time, swiftly wiping out species as new ones come in... that would be illogical.
We evolved from one species moving around to different environments. These environments each had their own climate, so each species was presented with a challenge. The survivors of each environment contributed to the gene pool, thus passing on their ability to survive such environment. As the species moved around, it branched out according to how many directions it drifted in. From moving from single to multiple celled organisms, to changing the structure of single celled organisms. Each new set of adaptations changed each species a little bit until there were so many adaptations that it no longer resembled or was sexually compatible with the original. This continues for hundreds of thousands of years, and we have a multitude of different species, all adapting to their environments... etc.
Do you think that all the different races were just some creator trying to create diversity (that we would all hate each other for foolishly)?
The object of evolution is simply nature taking the best and moving it forward, while leaving the lesser behind.. As situations change, so do circumstances, and different members of different species are better equipped to deal with different circumstances... the best survive, the rest die out. The survivors reproduce and pass their traits on. Sometimes the allocation of traits in one species causes it to advance beyond the species itself...
why am I even bothering... you should have learned this in school.
2007-02-01 02:43:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we evolved. The modern single cells and fish evolved from the more primitive single cells and fish we evolved from. Just because other forms had advantages, it doesn't mean that single cells and fish were obsolete.
2007-02-01 02:31:37 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look. Isolated populations are supposed to evolve separately. So evolutionists believe that if it had happened that all the monkeys in the world were in the same place and shared genes with each other, THEN there would be no monkeys today. But if one group was in, say, Africa while another was in, say, Asia, then one of them might not get the memo. Dig?
2007-02-01 02:30:50 · answer #5 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I asked this same question when I was about 13 years old, and I thought it was a real stumper. Of course, I got my answers in a high school biology class, so it seems like a ridiculius question now. I suggest you do a little bit of research, instead of asking this same tired question on Y!A. If you really want the information, it's easy to find. If you don't, then stop pretending you do. Lying is a sin, and Jesus will set you on fire.
2007-02-01 02:33:55 · answer #6 · answered by Lee Harvey Wallbanger 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really because they have all been evolving as well. some faster than others.
Most religious people view life and its classification as like a ladder with us on the top rung. That is an incredibly egotistical world view. It can all also be viewed as a tree like structure with us out on one of the branches. I personally think of it more like a web or net with shifting node points, everything effecting everything else.
Remember that a religious Mosquito would think it's God created the world for Mosquitoes and humans as food.
2007-02-01 02:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by U-98 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do Xians only use one brain cell? Evolution is a fact, the end. No more discussion is needed. As long as Xians deny basic facts of the world around us they will forever continue to seen as ignorant.
2007-02-01 03:18:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm open to other theories that will explain the known FACT that a million years ago there were no humans, though there were many other kinds of animal life - and now there ARE humans! Oh, and the many kinds of aninmal life that were here a million years ago were NOT here a million years earlier, though other kinds of animal life were. So please, it's so easy to criticize a current theory when you don't have to propose an alternative. We know it happened. So, if you think it didn't happen by evolution, please explain how you think it did happen.
2007-02-01 02:39:26 · answer #9 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! Whether we had help along our way (some 500 thousand years) is open to debate by better minds than mine.
To answer your Q; I think I have to go along with J.P. And according to Norman Vincent Peale; the sky's the limit!
2007-02-01 02:36:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you different from your brothers and sisters? Are your kids more likely to be like you than like them? That's what evolution is about--the whole species doesn't evolve, just branches and offshoots that then become new species depending on how radical the difference in them is from their forebears.
2007-02-01 02:33:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋