It is well documented that there are. Compare this to dogs. We know that dachsunds came from wolves, and we have the history of their breeding on record. We can see the transitional forms in books and in the bones. It's a gradual transition.
Do you understand that every time we find a transitional fossil between A and C (call it B), you just claim that there is no tranition between A and B, and so on ad infinitum. You can't expect to see a year-by-year series. Geological process do not work such that you get that many fossils.
2007-02-06 07:00:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
michelltmoore: Dog breeds are not determined by natural selection, but the effect is the same. Two dog breeds are different in the same way a zebra and a canary are different, it's only the degree of the difference. Two dogs are closer. You should investigate evolution further yourself.
2007-02-06 07:16:02 · update #1
Snowflake: Yes, dogs mating WILL eventually result in evolution into a different species that could not mate with the original. It just takes a long time. Millions of years. Millions. Also, my beliefs about something have nothing to do with the truth of the proposition.
2007-02-06 07:18:26 · update #2
Over 400 specimens of Neanderthals from 124,000 to 23,000 years old. Different philosophical structure, impossible to match any modern-day human or ape variety. And plenty of animal transitional fossils.
EDIT-Already two people who think evolution says we came from apes, I think that is answer to your question enough :O
EDIT2-THREE!!!
2007-02-06 07:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Evolution is defined as A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.
Your example is like saying if a white person has children with a black person then their children will have evolved because their skin is somewhere in between. Breeding is not an example of evolution. It is using what is genetically there to bring out certain characteristics. You need to look into evolution a little better before you try to argue this point. It never helps convince people when the undereducated stand up and shout from the roof tops.
2007-02-06 07:09:10 · answer #2 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 'missing link' is an imperfect science. why does it have to be a step up from ape toward our modern homo-sapien? could it not be that all of these fossils are mutations? someone with spinabifida is going to have a different looking skeleton that what may be considered 'normal'...are they closer to an ape then? or perhaps a more highly evolved human? of course not.
christians are taught that god created species A, B and C very similarly...and at some point, species B died off.
if the missing link theory were true, it would debunk the christian myth....but of course, there is no proving that.
2007-02-06 07:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by turtle.racer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and never claim there isn't transitional forms. As long as we are clear on the meaning. I believe evolution is fact, that doesn't mean I believe we as humans evolved from primates. If that is true, why are there still primates? Why haven't we found any missing link? Evolution is evident in our world, but not with every species. However, even if you could prove it with humans beyond any doubt, it wouldn't shake my faith in God. I don't pretend to know how He does what He does.
2007-02-06 07:05:17 · answer #4 · answered by Scott B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am still working on how to get a cell functioning.
btw: you still have a dog either a wolf or dachsund.
Still waiting around to see a pond scum walk upright and become a man.
The fossil record has some major holes or very quick changes.
Some trainstional fossils turn out to be wrong too.
That is why evolution is a theory.
2007-02-06 07:05:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I can understand why - because they think the earth is only 6000 years old, and in their mind there isn't enough time for transitions. They have no concept of the earth being 5 billion years old and just how long of a time that is.
2007-02-06 07:05:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok brainiac:
#1 sure: dogs can mate with other dogs to make a different dog... but duh! it's still a dog! it's not gonna change into a bird. or anything else. just like people have kids who look different than them, but they are still people. and they are not "evolving" at all. and the universe has only existed about 5,000-9,000 yrs old. not millions or billions.
#2- if you believe you came from monkeys, you probably did.
2007-02-06 07:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The relevant question is...what does evolution have to do with Christianity, and vice versa?
2007-02-06 07:03:05 · answer #8 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is survival of the fittest and we came from apes then why did the apes also survive?
2007-02-06 07:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by pixie.dust321 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we dont believe in evolution
2007-02-06 07:03:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋