Is this statment true?
If a fair maiden kisses a frog which instantly changes into a handsome prince we would call it a fairy tale. But if the frog takes 40 million years to turn into a prince we call it evolution.
2007-04-01 05:42:38 · 31 answers · asked by Chris 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think some missed the whole point of this question.
2007-04-01 07:18:10 · update #1
Ha, ha...very good, friend...that about sums it up..
here's the evolution theme song.....
I used to be an ameba, living life completely free.
Then I became a fish, swimming in the sea.
Then I was monkey, hanging from a tree,
And now, I'm a doctor with a Ph. D.!
2007-04-01 05:47:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
That depends on whether the frog who took 40 million years to turn into a prince really was kissed to begin with and if the kiss had anything to do with him turning into a prince over 40 million years.
But I think the striking thing in this scenario wouldn't be kisses and princes, but the mere fact that a frog could live 40 million years. Frogs don't usually live that long.
2007-04-01 12:47:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do creationists such as yourself lie constantly. You know Evolution does not say a 40 million year old frog poofed into a prince but instead that men and frogs share a common ancestor.
You are simply being a dishonest liar here. Sorry to sound harsh but the lack of honesty shown by creationists is simply disgusting.
2007-04-01 13:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. Evolution occurs through a change in the gene pool. Evolution functions on the level of populations, not individual organisms. The frog would not turn into a prince simply because a princess kissed it.
2007-04-01 12:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No it isn't. It misrepresents evolutionary biology.
The earliest amphibians appeared on earth some 350 million years ago. Frogs didn't 'turn into' anything. Over the course of hundreds of thousands of generations amphibians evolved into several different species including reptiles and mammals.
A more appropriate comparison would be:
If a person teleports from Toronto to Detroit we would call it science fiction. But if the person takes 270,000 steps to get from Toronto to Detroit we call it walking.
2007-04-01 12:58:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
True. Only that frog would not be the one to turn into a prince, it would have carefully selected genes passed on to each youngin until it became a better form, not necessarily human. It's a very, very slow process, but it could eventually turn into a human, thats a long shot though. A frog will most likely stay as some sort of reptile-like creature.
2007-04-01 12:45:29 · answer #6 · answered by Life Is Illusive 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You watch too many Kent Hovind videos. No, that's not true, because humans aren't descendant from frogs.
Evolution is, simply put, change over time of gene frequencies. That's ALL it means. The theory of evolution is what we currently know about how it works... this of course is subject to change based on further research. Evolution itself happens, it can be observed within our lifetime in certain organisms. There's no doubt at all that evolution happens, therefore it's not a fairy tale.
Educate yourself.
2007-04-01 13:15:04 · answer #7 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
40 million years from frog to human? Nope, not reasonable. The dinosaurs died out more than 40 million years ago. Maybe a billion or so.
How about this. When a person comes up to you on the street talking about invisible sky fairies fixing his life, you call him crazy. But when he calls them jesus, you call him pious. Does that make more sense?
2007-04-01 12:55:25 · answer #8 · answered by eri 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not a biologists but i really want to be a human biologists when i go to college. Now that is quite an interesting question you have there. I'd say that's positively impossible! first of all the frog is an amphibian (sp?) and we are not. Second if it did beome a human that would be sickly! but to answer your question i would say we would all be dead by the time that happens lol.
2007-04-01 12:48:21 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference is in the process.
There is no known process by which a frog would turn into a prince in an instant.
There is a known process by which an organism will eventually evolve into multiple organisms, each adapting to their environment. We see evidence of that process creating such diverse animals as frogs and princes.
2007-04-01 12:46:52 · answer #10 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
obviously not the exact same frog but they probably share a common ancestor, yes.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Subspecies: H. s. sapiens
That's where we fit in the scheme of things.
2007-04-01 13:03:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋