2007-02-08 17:45:39 · 9 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If we destroy our habitat, we'll be one of mother nature's mistakes.
2007-02-08 17:46:02 · update #1
Pride mostly. If creationists start to wonder that we may NOT be the "greatest creation" then their entire belief system falls apart.
That's a terrifying concept to a lot of people.
2007-02-08 17:58:30 · answer #1 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most evolutionists agree that humans aren't evolving anymore.
In order to have evolution, a certain portion of the population must be cut off from the rest, and placed under environmental situations that force adaptations that natural selection would, over time, gravitate too.
For instance, if a group of humans were seperated from the rest of the population - so that there could be no contamination of the gene pool - on an island where the only available food was in the ocean.
Over thousands of years, natural selection would gravitate to people with longer, wider feet and hands, and short toes and fingers to make swimming easier.
something along those lines.
Currently, humans aren't really evolving because natural selection isn't really taking place.
2007-02-09 01:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Angry Moogle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple-mindedness. They also seem to assume that all evolution MUST lead to intelligence as we understand it.
That said, there currently is little evolutionary pressure on our backs I think; we control our environment to a degree and we have all but done away with natural selection in the industrial nations. Consider my poor eyesight; I would normally have been eaten by something bigger or hungrier long ago, instead I got contacts ;)
2007-02-09 02:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Funny isn't it. I wonder if the "people" that live 5,000 years from now will still consider themselves "God's greatest creation"....I seriously doubt it. At that point they will have realized that they are but a SEGMENT of life, no greater or less than what came before them, or what will come after them.
2007-02-09 01:48:48 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know probably because the time range is beyong the average phathomability
2007-02-09 01:53:15 · answer #5 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a theory....not a proven fact. However, given that evolution was a fact, and we are still evolving, changes would not be evident for a time when we would be long gone. So, debating this issue is useless.
2007-02-09 02:01:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I sure don't. Only a creationist would assume that.
2007-02-09 01:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dude, look at yourself ,could it get any better?<><
2007-02-09 01:53:16 · answer #8 · answered by funnana 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because we aren't morphing right in front of their eyes... so OBVIOUSLY we aren't evolving.
2007-02-09 01:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋