I have emotions like being sad, and happy. I cry when I get hurt. If someone comes up from behind me, I'm surprised. I don't need these things to survive in the wilderness. How come I find enjoyment from snowboarding, I'm sure they didn't have snowboards 5 million years ago, I wonder how they knew to make me enjoy that. How come when I kiss a girl, I get excited and the feeling of love washes over me, were these emotions used to fight of predetors? Interesting that I have all these things inside of me, that really isn't needed but is good to have around. Weird. Plus, that frog that there saying is 25 million years old, shouldn't that have evolved by now? Surley we have evolved as human beings in the last 25 million years, why not the frog?
2007-02-17 01:24:44 · 5 answers · asked by Bryan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because evolution is bunk and can't prove any thing that they claim. The tag-line for the theory is "nothing is happening now that hasn't been happening in the past". Evolutionist haven't found ANYTHING that doesn't fit with the truth of the Bible.
God Bless
2007-02-17 02:01:13 · answer #1 · answered by L Strunk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I absolutely agree with the first three answers given. And I will gladly join them in thumping your science teachers.
All those emotions are rooted in things that have helped humans survive for 200,000 years.
"How come when I kiss a girl, I get excited and the feeling of love washes over me, were these emotions used to fight of predetors? "
Oh c'mon ... No! These were the emotions used to make babies!!!
"If someone comes up from behind me, I'm surprised."
Oh c'mon, again. You don't see how that helps survival? Surprise is the sudden jolt of awareness of something behind you. If you stop and think real hard you will see a reason why this might possibly be good for survival. The fact that you feel surprise is *evidence* of evolution! (How does creationism explain surprise?)
"I'm sure they didn't have snowboards 5 million years ago, I wonder how they knew to make me enjoy that."
"They?" Who is "they?"
Why do you like snowboards? Because of something called "adrenaline" and "endorphins." (Look it up.) These are hormones released into your blood to increase alertness and excitation when in danger, or when mating ... which enhances survival, and the making of more babies that have the same hormones. Snowboarding triggers adrenaline because it simulates danger and fear. That very sensation is *evidence* of evolution.
"Surley we have evolved as human beings in the last 25 million years."
Uhm, no. Humans have only been around for about a quarter-of-a-million years.
"Plus, that frog that there saying is 25 million years old, shouldn't that have evolved by now?"
Not if it is perfectly suited as it is for survival in its environment, and making more frogs.
The next time you are on the slopes, enjoying the rush of adrenaline ... thank evolution for that sensation.
2007-02-17 09:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the emotions you describe do help you survive. The emotion of happiness can reinforce your wanting things that are good for you. Surprise is your adreneline surging, which, if instead of a friend sneaking up behind you, it was a bear, would give you the energy to escape. Love has to do with one of the most basic of survival instincts, reproduction. As far as the frog goes, just because there are more complex creatures evolving doesn't mean everything else becomes extinct. Evolution isn't linear. Think of it as more like a bush or a tree. Things branch off and change.
2007-02-17 09:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do me two favors, smack your science teachers, all of them, and please TRY to think about evolution as not a line but a tree. You are talking about natural selection. The frog didn't change much because he didn't need to, it worked for him. That doesn't mean that some of the mutant children of that frog and other frogs like him didn't find that their mutations kinda rocked and they were able to live differently in different areas. Emotions, especially excitement when you kiss a girl, do have a need. Humans are slow, naked and defenseless. We need society to keep the big bad predators from chasing us down and munching on us. The emotions allow us to live together and make us want to live together (some of the emotions come from living together as anyone who has ever hated a sibling will tell you). That feeling of love makes you want to have sex and that means more humans...very important for survivla of the species if not for you personally. You enjoy snowboarding because it is a rush, a rush earlier humans felt when hunting. As we no longer need to hunt or kill predators, we make up idiotic death-defying stunts to get the same rush. Put down the pot and pick up a book, please, please, please.
2007-02-17 09:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All your question displays is a formidable ignorance on the subject of evolution.
You say 'surely we have evolved as humans beings, why not the frog?' but you wouldn't ask that if you understood evolution in the slightest - what can I say? Go read a book. You're embarrassing yourself.
2007-02-17 09:51:35 · answer #5 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋