You do realize that the steps that evolution requires are just as improbable as God right?

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Come on, the necessary steps for the first time would have been like 10 to the 400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 or something.

Mom of 2~

evolution is a gradual process so if it happened we would not really see the effects until the very end, and even then we wouldn't reconize it.

Swampy thingy~ I'm a science professer at Berkley...

Answer 1

I think you mean to say, the spontaneous start of life is improbable, not evolution. Evolution is an accepted theory of science. The only people who don't believe it don't really understand it. They only hear what the church has to say about it. Many Christian churches support evolution, including the Catholic church. Indeed, the spontaneous start of life is a mystery, but once it starts, evolution happens due to mutations. Nobody denies that mutations exist.

Answer 2

Well, in a sense, the steps taken by evolution to produce us human beings are fairly improbable, but only in a sense, and a rather uninteresting and un-amazing one at that.

An analogy might help. I just looked out my window and looked for a car numberplate. The one I saw read GV04 0HT. Do you realise what the chances of that happening were? Of all the cars in the world, or even in my city, whose numberplate I might happen to notice, I saw this one. The likelihood is one in a very big number.

But this is obviously silly. In the same way, you could try to estimate all the tiny little evolutionary steps that were required to produce human beings (say); and you could try to estimate all the other possible paths that our ancestors could have taken. Isn't it amazing that they took this very one that has led to me writing this here today!?

Not really no. It's like the car. Of all the possible paths the entire history life on earth could have taken, it had to take one -- just as of all the possible cars whose numberplates I could have found, my eyes had to settle on one (assuming there was at least one car in the street).

Answer 3

I don't know what those original odds were but they weren't zero. It was a series of chemical reactions that are a lot more probable than supernatural being starting the process. If it hadn't happened, and it only had to happen once, then we wouldn't be here now talking about it now.

Answer 4

yes probably, except the fact that evolution resides inside the realm of possibility and the obeys the laws of logic. god does not. plus if you take those odds, then take into account of the billions of single celled organisms over the course of millions of years, then the odds of successful evolution happening increases a bit.

Answer 5

Why on EARTH do you say things like that when all it does is demonstrate how little you know about the subject?

I bet you think the 'hurricane in a scrapyard' model is accurate, don't you?

Wonder what would happen to your tiny mind if you actually read up on how it really works...

CD

Answer 6

How? Having a mutation happen is improbable? Having only the things that can survive survive is improbable?

Answer 7

but why are there improbable???
if i say god doesnt exist, am i to be considered such an expert about the matter that everyone must take for granted whatever i say???? no...so the same to you, just explain your point and the rest will decide if what you say makes sense or not

Answer 8

Saying that god is improbable yes.

Answer 9

you are misinformed... as many are...

amazing - yes...
improbable - no...

Did you know that some people believe in God and still find evolution to be scientifically probable?

A belief in one does not translate to the abandonment of the other...

(MomOf2 cracks me up... are her answers always that blushing???)

Answer 10

By this statement you show yourself to have no knowledge regarding the words "probable" and "evolution."