those of you that accept g. warming, do you believe in evolution?

Question

if so, then you believe that human beings evolution began billions of years ago.(at the very least millions)
ok, over this expansive amount of time the earth has gone through much more strenuous climate change than we r experiencing and predicting for the future. this can not be disputed with any intellectual responsibility or integrity. even the worst case scenarios predicted by science today can not compare to what the earth has experienced over the course of human evolution.
yet, we, the earth and the human race, r all still here.
through all of it, the human species has proven to b just as resilient as it's earth mother.

Answer 1

proves that all hicks are ignorant, im gonna change the word ignorant to hicknorant. thanks. new word. i dont know why hicks voted for bush its not like they have money to invest in the stock market. oh ya i forgot nascar. Nascar is the reason bush is still president. you hicknorants should know that electric cars are faster then combustion engines. read a book and stop believing what big oil tells you. no one should have voted for bush if he or she didnt have 10 percent of their stock portfolio in oil. show some balls and keep this posted, dont be a girly man and report me.

Answer 2

I understand the point you're making but time scales need to be taken into account.

The world has always warmed and cooled of it's own accord and in the past it's been a lot hotter and colder than it is now. These natural changes happen over immense periods of time.

Not so long back, geologically speaking, there was an incredible warming of the planet which led to the most recent glacial retreat, during this period temperatures rose by 7C in 7,500 years - in terms of natural events this is a pehnomenal rate of increase.

The worst case scenario predicted by scientists is a 6.4 degree C rise in temperatures in the next 100 years. This is 69 times as fast as when the glaciers retreated. We're already seeing temperatures increase by 0.0156 C a year - 17 times as fast as during the glacial retreat.

Although humans have been around for a long time and there have been climatic changes on the planet, there's never been anything remotely like the RATE of change we're seeing now.

Humans are resilient and an increase in temperatures isn't going to adversely affect evolution. If you were to move to a state or country that has a higher temperature you're not going to evolve much differently - there will be differences but they will be very slight and over many, many generations. Look at the European settlers in South Africa or Australia for example, they've been there hundreds of years but are still essentially European in characteristic despite living in a much hotter country.

Answer 3

It is true that the earth has undergone many climate changes throughout its lifetime and that human beings have persevered through some of them, albeit with much difficulty. However, previous climate changes have occurred much more gradually than the one we are currently experiencing. What is so disconcerting about the current warming trend is that it is occurring so quickly and the rise in temperature correlates with the rise in man-made CO2 emissions. In fact, the relationship between the two is so strong that only a fool would believe the one is not causing the other. Contrary to what may be reported in the media, there IS overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that mankind is the cause of it. Read the recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the latest scientific information on the subject. Or, if you're skeptical of the United Nations, look at the body of research being conducted, by various groups, on polar bears, who are the canaries in the coal mine, so to speak, and will be extinct in 50 years if the warming trend continues.

After reading the scientific research, even if you are still not convinced that man is not responsible for the warming trend, hopefully, you will at least admit that air pollution is harmful to humans. Now, there are some folks out there who will argue that CO2 is a necessary part of life and the CO2 that is in our atmosphere is necessary for a greener planet. Unfortunately, however, CO2 is very poisonous to humans and the largest consumer of CO2, the Amazon Rainforest, is rapidly disappearing and is not expected to be around in 30 years, unless something is done to stop its destruction. Maybe we could get away with not curbing our CO2 emissions if we stopped cutting down trees and started planting more trees throughout the land. Unless that happens, our cities will continue to be choked by pollution, which seriously impairs everyone's health - for more information on the correlation between air pollutants and respiratory disease, look at the research being conducted by the American Lung Association.

Corporate profits should never take precedent over the health of your fellow humans. Throughout the history of mankind, the economy has proven to be much more resilient and to heal a lot quicker than the Earth.

If you truly are a servant of God, who wishes to honor Him, then you will not ask your fellow humans to suffer unnecessarily.

Answer 4

Um... no.. Humans have only been around for 150,000 years or so. That's like a speck of nothing in geologic time. Brachiopods, in contrast have been around since the early Cambrian which is approximately 540 million years ago. Also, there is evidence that there were other human-like species that are now extinct and that only homo-sapien-sapiens survived. Plus, most species who have ever been on the earth are now extinct. I'm sure that in another million years or so humans will become extinct as well and a new species will evolve. The Earth takes care of itself.

Answer 5

Actually, humans have only been around for about 150,000 years, and 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct.

The dinosaurs were around for millions of years, until one bad day 65 million years ago began a change that would leave only those that were able to evolve into birds.

Evolution takes no prisoners, and offers no guarantees.

Regardless, I'm not worried that global warming will end all life on earth, or even all human life. But it could wipe out a pretty large percentage of human life given massive crop failures and drought, and isn't that enough? Three thousand people dying of September 11th, or about .00005% of earth people, was enough to prompt us to war.

Let's stop the bickering and solve this global crisis!

Answer 6

I don't think that that's meaningful. Whether or not Earth's inhabitants have survived climate change in the past is not necessarily indicative that we will survive it in the future. Scientists aren't so much worried *that* the climate is changing as they are with the speed at which it's doing so.

You see, evolution is an excruciatingly slow process, and, as we've seen in the past, large scale, rapid climate changes usually have devastating effects on living organisms. See the theorized meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs as an example.

Answer 7

Yeah, I believe in evolution.

I used to be very religious, and believed that we were created and put here out of the blue. Then I read more into the science side of it, and see that in my opinion, that can't be possible. Science clearly states that humans were not around when dinosaurs were around, or else we were around at the end of their reign, yet religion says we were here from the beginning.

We have too many characteristics similar to apes and other primates to not convince me. I really believe we evolved from something else, as everything must in order to survive the ever-changing world.

Answer 8

I believe in creationism, I chose to. But I am a very knowledgeable person, and love science so I understand the theory of evolution completely. But I also agree with what you said about there being catosrphic and huge climate changes throughout Earth's history. Such as thousands of years of red sky, with nothing but sand storms and acidic rain.
So global warming, which I see, but is little to no attribute to Earth's climate as what it has been. There is evidence that even of the most tropical places on our planet have frozen over. We are just one speicies, with the greatest intelligence possibly ever on Earth, but we are just one out of many, so what ever happens on Earth in the future will be mother nature's choice, not ours, regardless of what you think about "global warming."

Answer 9

get real evolution is for animals
we were created as a slave race by the Anunaki,with genetic engineering and cloning .

at least 300.000 years ago

our roots lie in space

Answer 10

I can't believe people think that either are debatable.

They're both true