Im soooo tired of this evolution monkey man garbage. Any takers?

Question

Look i believe in adaption and changes and mutations in species, but come on people,, do you actually think we came from an ameoba??? How do u think life actually started,, a cesspool of chemicals and a lightning strike? How can u explain the incredible complexity of the human genome? Yeah, that's just by chance....

Answer 1

Evolution is a fact. We evolve continuously, just as all things do. There is no reason to get upset over God using natural laws and means to create.

Answer 2

I do believe it.

From a scientific perspective - I get it and I see the evidence.

From a spiritual perspective - I just don't have a problem with it and I don't feel the need to ascribe it to intelligent design.

I think it's way too soon to make that kind of judgment. - I think the universe is wayyyy more complex than our brains are capable of understanding at this point in our evolution. What we can do is examine the evidence and not fear what it tells us. That my friend is a true exercise in faith.

From a personal perspective, my non scientific gut feeling that i would never present as true or accurate because it has no scientific foundation is this:
Perhaps rather than chance, and perhaps rather than some other consciousness putting the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle,
Perhaps the nature of matter - which is really just slow energy - is life. Perhaps there is some, as of yet, undiscovered law or tendency towards the formation of life and then towards further complexity of life.
I'm happy to say I don't know. I think the most foolish thing we can do as humans is pretend we have come to any final answers. The second most foolish thing is to look for answers based on what we want to hear or what makes us comfortable.

Answer 3

If you understood the process of adaptation, mutation and natural selection, then you wouldn't be saying "just by chance."

Mutation is a chance event. Adaptation and Natural Selection are most decidedly not chance events.

Secondly, biological evolution and the origin of life are two different things. Biological evolution does not (and can not) explain the origin of life. Given the existence of a replicator, evolution can explain the immense diversity we see around us.

The "cesspool of chemicals and a lightning strike" you mention is ONE possible explanation for the origin of life.

There are a myriad good websites that will explain biological evolution, but the wikipedia article on it is a good place to start.

Answer 4

Yep. I'll bite.

First of all, you should learn what evolution theory says before you try to argue about it. Otherwise, you only show your own ignorance on the subject. What you are doing is exactly like arguing about the bible with someone who has never read it and for whatever reason doesn't want to believe it.

No difference at all. Biochemistry is not chance. Natural selection is not chance. You really have a lot of research to do if you want to get up to speed.

But go ahead and be tired of evolution. Hate it. Call it names.

Then it will no longer be true, and you can continue walking around in that small, narrow world of yours.

Answer 5

No, it's not by chance. That is a common misconception. The evolution of the human genome (and all other genomes) started 4.57 billion years ago, and in every single generation, the unfit individuals were weeded out. Only the fit stayed alive to breed. That is not chance. That is called natural selection, and it is a very strong force driving evolution.

And yes, life did start with a primordial soup of chemicals and lightning.

Answer 6

Maybe many people find it hard to believe we came from unicells. But bear in mind, after the course of circa 2 billion years, anything can happen. A cell spans from a few micrometes to millimeters, some viruses are measured in nanos. But if u stack them up, say 2 of them per year [assuming there are no other interference], ur scale jz grow up to kilometers. And that assumption is only made by arithmetic progression. Cells grow by exponential progression. So, i don't see the impossibility of humans coming from a single cell. We are trying to prove things jz dun happen by mere luck or chance, but hey, many astounding scientific discoveries come from chance itself. I don't think i should quote examples here as many of us knew that many old time scientists succeed by chance. Be reminded that biological and chemical substances are fragile, even by today's standards, an erratic mixture would probably set out a disaster. So, if there is opportunity, i don't see why the atoms would refuse it. Now, you are staring at your PC or what sort ever. Putting on the shoes of a Hoabinh or Cro Magnon, or Homo erectus [i know they dun wear shoes, but jz for the sake of exempification], do u think a computer can be made?Judging that you only have coarsely honed spears and knives? Does it even cross your mind that the archaic tools evolved into the modern smart bullets?Why people can accept evolution in invention but never in the biological world? Is there really that much of a diff? Mark that wateva we created or devised, they are part of the behavourial patterns, which falls under the category of ecological niche. People might think guns and aeroplanes are mere physics and chemistry, but they are actually subproducts of biological realm. We evolved, and hence we render the lifeless tools and objects we made as mere 'inventions', but from the holistic overview, we are just utilising the materials from nature, jz like a bird building its nest. So, my point is, if evolution can begin and proceed to something rather unlikely to appear by currrent perception in terms of human invention, why can't the organisms?

Answer 7

We think we are perfect, and we also think we were designed to look just like this. but take a second look. If we looked green and had 4 arms instead of two, you wouls still be thinking we are perfect!

Trust me, i work with the human genome everyday, and its far from perfect. Imagine an alphabet with 6 letters instead of 4? That would make the genome twice as efficient. Now imagine 20 letters? Do you see? if it were design, there would be some genious in it. There is none. The genome just has to make do with what it has, thats why its generally inefficient and imperfect.

Answer 8

no evolution is not just by chance, but yes a simple, single cell organism is where we came from

while evolution has no purpose, by selection it favors the more fit organism, thus eliminating the 'chance' idea, mutations however do occur randomly, but you have to remember we are talking over a long period of time here

Answer 9

Evolution is a religion:
They have to believe by faith that life can come from non-living material (spontaneous generation), something proven wrong in 1864 by Louis Pasteur.
They have to believe by faith that their little dot that came from nothing exploded and created everything, thats a pretty big miracle by itself.
They have to believe by faith that things happened billions of years ago that cannot possible be seen or demonstrated today.

Answer 10

You are making a fundamental and fatally flawed assumption that is provably wrong - that random processes cannot lead to complexity.

In fact, exactly such processes are used in science and engineering to obtain answers to otherwise intractable problems precisley because they are efficient and very, very fast at it. For instance, you can perfect an aircraft wing this way with a few generational changes, but computing it would take years of supercomputer power.