In simplest terms, what is the theory of evolution. What caused some cretures to evolve, and others to not. Why did a group of monkeys stay monkeys, but another evolve to humans?
2007-05-27 18:47:30 · 8 answers · asked by electrosmack1 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The basic idea is that given enough time and the need to change due to environmental conditions a species will change or evolve as a response to stay alive. You ask the question that the theory does not answer. If you believed in A creator you don't have to worry about that. Of course then the question becomes where did the Creator come from? I find it easier to believe in a Creator than matter from nothing; spontaneous life from a soup in the ocean; and fish turning into men over a billion years.
2007-05-27 18:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Future Citizen of Forvik 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Within their species, creatures evolve (we humans used to be much shorter on average judging by the heights of the doorways in some little old houses in Europe) over time but that doesn't mean that one species turns into another. We were never monkeys & monkeys will never be us.
I don't believe in evolution. I believe in Intelligent Design. Some great being (I choose to call him God) made the earth & all the weird & wonderful creatures within it. I would like to know how evolutionists explain the platypus. A bit of an anomaly. Kind of disproves the entire theory of evolution! There are creatures that don't make evolutionary sense. I believe that the creator was an artist. We are all His works of art. Someone loved us & brought us into being.
But I'm not going to try to convince or convert you. We are all entitled to believe whatever we like.
It doesn't matter so much how we got here. Focus more on what you do in the here & now.
However we all got here, it's a beautiful world & we must love & protect all the creatures within it.
Peace out.
:)
2007-05-28 02:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In every species individual members have small diferences from one another. At some point due to changing conditions some of these small diferences may become important for survival. Then some members will survive and others not and the important characteristics will become characteristics of the species. In that way one species may split to two or more. Geographical isolation may be a strong factor in this.
Humans did not evolve from from monkeys. Both humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor.
2007-05-28 05:25:01 · answer #3 · answered by dimitris k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Species change and adapt over millions of years to survive. The intermediaries in the evolution of the apes and other hominids such as man can be seen in fossils, and many intermediary "apes" are known. These intermediate forms arose because they have valuebeing able to survive a little better than others Complex structures like brains (cerebral cortex) evolved as a progression of slight improvements.
The modern day apes evolved from their own lines traced back to a common ancestor of our own line. Why did our line develop faster, why some lines became extinct, why the modern day ape line was slower than ours....was a result of random adaptations of the DNA.....sorry...no pre-ordained plan.
2007-05-28 02:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an example,
say there are lots of different varieties of a specific type of moth. Some are almost black, and some are very white. If the environment changes from one that is favorable to the light colored moths to the dark ones, more of the dark ones will survive and reproduce, becoming a larger part of the overall population of moths, instead of a lot of light moths, there will be a lot of dark ones.
The idea is that over a long period of time, creatures were able to change enough not to be considered of the same species and such.
So if some creatures were separated from another and in one place it was better to be different and in the other to be the same, they would change to accompany that.
2007-05-28 02:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by istillcandream 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF humans evolved then the evolution was random. Why if evolution is random did we all come out the SAME????
If you saw a picture and then saw another picture that was ALMOST the same as the other picture would you not agree they were created by the same artist???
How then was man created ALL the same if evolution is random?
2007-05-29 22:54:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ninja Showdown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think in the simplest way evolution is about variations that help you get more sex. The more sex you get, the better the chance that you pass that variant on to another generation, and over time, those variants can add up to some dramatically different things... but they all have to equal more sex or it all dies away.
2007-05-28 02:22:59 · answer #7 · answered by locusfire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Attitude .
Theory of evolution is simple attitude to be.
Remember , you asked this under Philosophy!
2007-05-28 02:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by Prince Prem 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋