Mathematical Christianity?

Question

I have a few questions I would like to ask.

Name a few different species that have evolved from one to another? This excludes different types of the same species (micro) evolution, but yet I want (macro) answers.

Name the odds of our planet being created from evolution, while adding our bodies would have the correct formula to live off of oxygen and be able to evolve from basic chromsomes.

Explain to me why humans since recorded data has existed has not yet evolve again.

Thank you.

So the first couple of answers it seems I have more justification in believing in a Supreme Being then belieivng of a science that take millions of years to prove

J.P. i do not disprove microevoultion which you just proved to me but what about macro?

Answer 1

Evolution does not create planets. Sheesh...

Answer 2

It's obvious from the way you've asked your question that you have a lot of study ahead of you if you ever hope to truly understand evolution. It just doesn't work the way you imagine. Planets are not formed by evolution. Assuming 20 years per generation, four thousand years is only 200 generations. That's not nearly long enough to observe physical evolution in a species as complex as humans.

Instead of imagining you can disprove one of the central theories of modern science with a few well chosen questions, I suggest you try to learn enough so you are able to ask genuine questions that deserve thoughtful answers. Thanks to Creationism, America's high school biology textbooks have been dumbed down to the point of being nearly useless. You'll have to start at the college level. Read it for yourself. Only then will you actually know enough to decide for yourself. If you rely on religious tracts and/or the clergy to explain biology, you'll never learn the truth.

Answer 3

Whooo boy.

"Micro-evolution" as you call it, stacks minute change upon minute change over generations. For billions of years. This results in, what you call "macro-evolution". Many small steps make big steps. Therefore, all species are transient in nature. They are a classification of the expression of a certain set of genes (an animal or plant) IN TIME. Geological time, not 'recorded human history' which is a pitiful amount of time compared to billions of years.

"Name the odds of our planet being created from evolution, while adding our bodies would have the correct formula to live off of oxygen"

Here, you turn the argument around (and for some reason call planet formation 'evolution'). It is because the planet provides oxygen that we use it. If this planet had a different air composition we would either not exist or be radically different.

Answer 4

1) You mean observed speciation in the last few decades? Sure. Many new biological species of plants, fruit flies, house fleis, beetles, and worms have been observed to evolve from other biological species in the lab. There are also numerous ring species in nature, eg. many birds, that show speciation in action.

2) Shuffle and deal out a pack of cards. Now name the odds that you would get that exact order of 52 cards. One in trillions. OMG a miracle!

3) Recorded historical data only exists for a few thousand years. Our species is 100 thousand years old.

And 4) What does all this have to do with Christianity?

Answer 5

It's hard to do justice to this question within the confines of Y!A, so please read Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale" for the complete explanation. (A much better book than "The God Delusion", by the way. It actually explains the stuff, and doesn't go out of its way to tick off theists.)

Fossil and molecular evidence show that a species of ape living 6-7 million years ago split and evolved into chimpanzees/bonobos on one hand, and us humans on the other hand. This process took millions of years, as the earliest Homo sapiens date from (IIRC) a few hundred thousand years ago.

So you see that the earliest records of man (since the invention of writing around 5,000 BC do not cover nearly enough of a time period to witness the process.

The book that I suggest has hundreds of examples, some of which can be witnessed now - in some cases we have two species with all the intermediates between the two still in existence!

The odds are quite stacked in favour of life as we know it, with some randomness built in. For example, if dinosaurs had not been driven out by (presumably) a comet, we may have a society of civilized velociraptors on earth today, instead of us primates. Or if we eventually kill off each other in nuclear warfare and global warming, the world could be ruled by intelligent rats in 100 million years.

Answer 6

We have evolved, as it happens.

There is a muscle in the leg that is only needed for quadruped movement. In over a third of modern humans, this muscle is missing though the attachment points on the bone remain. When muscle tissue is needed, this muscle is often harvested for it since its loss is meaningless.

As recently as the beginning of modern medicine, that is the application of the scientific principles to questions of health and well being (roughly the Renascence), this muscle was found to be present in ALL cadavers.

An entire muscle, gone, just like that, because it's not needed.

Congrats, that's evolution, and documented no less.


PS: Planets aren't created from evolution.

Answer 7

Fish, amphibians and some land reptiles are clear examples of the evolutionary path, even to the uninitiated, and this is supported by the fossil record.

Salmon in the oceans are speciating as we sit. One group cannot mate with another group, but the fish that live between them can still mate with either group. Eliminate that central group and you have two separate species.

Why would a planet filled with an oxygen atmosphere produce beings incapable of breathing it? Did you forget Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection?

Humans only developed the ability to write within the past 5,000 years. Hardly a blink of an eye on an evolutionary scale.

Answer 8

for questions # 2 & 3:

2) The planet wasn't created from evolution, it accumulated from debris in the universe. So did the sun, which started nuclear reactions when the pressure got great enough. Life evolved from the chemicals formed on the surface due to reactions fueled by the energy from the sun. I'd say the odds were pretty good, given that the proof is all around us.

3) I'd say we have evolved to fit local conditions. People in higher lattitudes tend to have blonder hair, fairer skin, and straighter hair. People from equatorial areas have darker skin, and curly hair. All that curly hair helps insulate their head from the heat, I'm told. In each case, their bodies have adapted to local conditions.

Want more? OK - people in very cold climates, like the Inuits, have evolved to have more compact bodies and greater amounts of body fat, to help minimize the heat loss. Those in warm areas tend to be thinner, to help get rid of excess body heat.

One more - people that live at high altitudes tend to have larger chests and lung capacity, so that they can live and function in the thinner air at that altitude. Their bodies have changed over the years to help them function better.

Answer 9

You don't understand evolution very well.

What you call a "species" is merely a snapshot in time. Even the most basic evolutionary process takes millions and millions of years. You cannot simply observe one species morphing in to another. If you want to see that, try PhotoShop.

Our planet did not evolve. It is a rock floating in space. Evolution required birth, genetic change, and rebirth, more times than you could every possibly imagine....

Answer 10

kinda the point of creationsim is that there was no abiogenesis or macro-evolution... I could name micro, nut not in good conscience name macro. (dog/wolf, smilodon/panthera cats, bovine/cows;muskox;buffalo;bison)

you mean big bang. the likelyhood of the universe being able to support human life is 1 in 10^123.

??? time I guess they say...