if evolutionsits believe that we evolved from ancestors and we adapted to our surroundings. how could we have adapted to something (water, oxygen, and food) not knowing that there was such a large long lasting supply of it? and how water can be reused after precipitating or whatever. was it just chance that we adapted to these things?
2007-03-18 13:08:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
forget purpose in your thinking
we didn't evolve the way we are to take advantage of specific resources. because resources were the way they were, individuals who were better suited by them just survived and reproduced more to take over the gene pool we see at this moment in time.... and who knows how it may change as the environment changes.
2007-03-18 13:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by hustolemyname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole point is that we adapted to things (if that theory is correct and I'm not saying that i think it is or isn't) because the adaptations worked. The evolving animal does not have to KNOW whether an adaptaion is going to be successful or not(in fact that would then give a basis for argument about animal consciousness). The adaptaion simply is or it isn't successful (so there may arguably be an element of chance involved, but for the animal and not the evolved adaptation its-self)) The ones who dont adapt either stay more or less the same or they die. Thats what survival of the fittest at it's base level means. In an extremely simplified explanation, "Precipitation" means water can be re-used because of it's cyclic nature. Water is deposited as either a liquid or a solid (snow hail rain) onto the surface of the earth and then it is either evaporated or goes through a plant or an animal (changing to a gaseous form) where it is collected again by the earths atmomsphere for deposit as a liquid or a gas (thus repeating the cycle).
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2007-03-18 20:24:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not chance at all. We didn't evolve in accordance to quantity. We evolved in accordance to availability. Oxygen and sunlight are the reason Earth is able to flourish. Even before humans there was fresh water, sunlight and oxygen that was plentiful enough to support life in general. Thus, through evolution organisms came to understand that we have plenty of the ingredients to sustain life on this planet. Evolution doesn't happen because we know whether or not there is enough supply of something. It's just not that easy.
And as far as it "only being able to be done by god because of 'brilliance'" and complexity. I think that millions upon millions of years of adapting does the job quite well. I don't think that the complexity of things proves there is a god
2007-03-18 20:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by confuscious 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Consider a piece of crabgrass growing in a crack in the concrete surface of a highway; if it grows down, it meets more concrete, if it grows up, it gets squashed by trucks, but it keeps trying until eventually it has grown to exactly the right shape to perfectly fit the crack. Would you consider that "proof" that God designed the piece of crabgrass to be the perfect shape to fit the crack? I hope not!
Perhaps you should read a little more about what the mechanisms of evolution are?
2007-03-18 20:22:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasnt chance because we DIDNT evolve. Dont you find that theory insulting? Humans are such a work of brilliance. The way everything works, every cell, every heartbeat, etc.........
We are a work of God there is no other explanation.
2007-03-18 20:12:45 · answer #5 · answered by Kel Kel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We co-evolved with our environment.
You only get organisms coming into existence for an unsuitable environment with Creationism -- e.g. the plants being created before the sun.
2007-03-18 20:35:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we do adapt to climate and our sorroundings but I dont think we evolved maybe people just want something to talk about and scientist they just get paid for this but I do think we were created by GOD and I love him for that
2007-03-18 20:12:18 · answer #7 · answered by lizziemoffles 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did we really adapt to them if they've been here longer than us?
They were the deciding factors as to how we first emerged.
2007-03-18 20:11:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were evolutionary mistakes along the way that died out. Evolution is a a long, slow, imprefect process.
2007-03-18 20:17:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my religion teaches me that God provided them (water, oxygen, food). it also teaches me that God knows better, and from time to time, He has given us the knowledge to figure out things on earth and also knowledge on science generally.
i know this sound ridiculous for people who doesnt believe in God, or how God links with science whatsoever. but its what i believe and what i've learned, so i thank God for all He gives to me..
2007-03-18 20:17:51 · answer #10 · answered by farina m 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋