Evolution is flawed....?

Question

for the first apes to evolve into homo-erectus, it took about 5 MILLION years.

YET, for homo-erectus to evovle into modern day humans, it took about TEN THOUSAND years.

if you take a look at the differences of pre-historic apes and homo-erectus, you will see there is about as much difference between those 2 as there are for homo-erectus and modern-day human.

how come one takes longer? by millions of years?!?!?! evolution is flawed.

Answer 1

Ice age. Hundreds and hundreds of species died out then, and the rest needed to accomodate really quickly, or they would die out too.

Answer 2

First of all, man did not evolve from apes. Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor, on parallel evolutionary paths.

You are correct that it took about 5 million years for Homo Erectus to evolve from the time of the common ape/human ancestor.... but modern humans appears around i.5 million years after Homo Erectus, not 10,000.

Your assertion that there is as much difference between proto-apes and Homo Erectus as there is between Homo Erectus and modern humans is just plain absurd.

Also, you assertion that 'evolution is flawed' is absurd. The 'Theory of Evolution' merely provides an explanatory framework for the OBSERVED FACT that the genetic makeup within populations of organisms changes, over time. Nothing more. The 'Theory of Evolution' posits two causes for these changes:

1. Genetic drift... statistical variations in allele frequency (random)

2. Natural selection (non-random) of mutations (random)... in other words, the non-random replication of randomly varying replicators.

Answer 3

Evolution occurs in conjunction with environmental changes and mutations. There's gradual evolution and there's punctuated equilibrium. In addition, some changes can lead to bigger changes faster. The evidence that homo erectus made tools means that they probably had some capacity for communicating in sign language or even through sounds. (If you can make tools, you can probably communicate with others how to make and use them.) That would lead to faster natural selection for those members of a population that could communicate better, or for a particular population in which relevant brain enlargement occurred. It would lead to an explosion of selection for brain enlargement, especially for language capacity. Evolution is really not something that occurs along a continuous time line, as you suggest. Besides, Homo erectus is more similar to Homo sapiens than is Homo erectus in comparison to apes. Might be a good idea to check your dates. Also, humans share a common ancestor with apes. They did not evolve from apes.

Answer 4

Name a system that is not flawed, it is just another way of looking at things. And by the way it is quite possible for some stages of evolution to evolve more quickly or slower than others in times of famine and feast for instance could effect how creates evolve. We know that during these times human intelligence changes in our young we we have a bounty of food and resources more intelligent children are created in our society. We also can say that evolution is not necessarily an improvement it is done to adapt to an environment and have a better chance of surviving in a different environment.

Answer 5

Good! Great! Fantastic! That's the WHOLE idea of scientific theory...put it out there, and get someone to falsify it. We thrive on falsification! Prove it DIDN'T happen like evolutionists say, and come up with an alternative....that's how we learn!

One of the best things about Evolution is that we are actually TRYING to explain things, rather than sitting back and saying "We don't know, therefore it MUST be been God"

And you're trying to tell us that Creationism is NOT flawed?

Get a grip on yourself ! Or perhaps that is the REAL problem...you should take AT LEAST one hand off it, or you'll go blind!)

Answer 6

As an occultist I believe that God created the world through the method re-incarnation and as well as evolution. Even the creative Logos of this man bearing planet is unfolding its divine nature through the means of an ever-growing self awareness. Both evolution and creation are a reality. The World Teacher ,Maitreya will soon come forward and settle this debate once and for all and then science and religion will live in peace with each other

Answer 7

No. Evolution is a stochastic process that does not operate on a timetable. Population bottlenecks and expansions along with speciation events have the potential to produce the appearance of sudden shifts. A small population can persist for a long period of time, leaving no fossils, then when the population expands, the odds of leaving fossils vastly increases.

Answer 8

I never understood how evolution could account for different races. It would make sense to me, if evolution is true, that Africans would have been the first to evolve from apes and Caucasians came later. The main theme of evolution is that with each new link the species gets stronger. So are evolutionists saying that Caucasians are more evolved than Africans.

Answer 9

Evolution is a theory that is supported by "scientific methodology". I am assuming you are discounting the scientific method to vindicate what you believe in - that being creationism. That's fine, but there is no scientific methodology to support "creationism" - don't even try kid - you will go down in a blaze of glory. Evolution is alive and well and not "anti-religion" by any means - in fact it only supports how glorious and amazing this planet and its diverse life can be - truly amazing. The Bible is parable and you can easily fit the first seven days as parable to how things came to be.

Answer 10

Evolution is triggered by necessity or natural selection. Your numbers aren't even right, but even if they were, it still wouldn't be a problem, as genetic variations producing generations of evolved offspring are formed largely by needs. If food was harder to catch, while also being more scarce. Then an advance brain would allow tribes of humans to catch more food, while less intelligent versions would be unable to adapt.

Answer 11

It's also interesting to note the apparent lack of evolution among other species during the same brief time period. Did the climate change mentioned in another answer only happen for humans? Why don't we see accelerated evolution among any other species like the ridiculously exaggerated one we see in humans? We can argue all day about what really caused our apparently sudden evolution, science will probably never know the real answer.