If man was made by natural selection, why are all men and women basicly the same?

Question

Ok, lets just say natural selection makes apes become people. But natural selection doesn't make all things exactly alike. That's why it's NATURAL SELECTION. But if you look at a human you see that we ALL have the same body parts. Maybe not the same skin or look but the SAME body parts. How does natural selection turn all the monkeys into the SAME thing? Can it think? Is natural selection some how magic? Does it have GOD like abilities to change a whole tribe of one animal into a whole tribe of another. Why didn't some of use get three arms and one leg. Why didn't some of us get three eyes instead of two??? Funny how natural selection somehow made us all the same....almost like we were created..... NAW, That would make TOO MUCH SENSE!

Answer 1

I was going to answer, but why bother. I suppose it's because GOD made me a lazy asshole.

Answer 2

If you look very closely, all monkeys have the same body parts as humans do too (except they have a tail). And so do apes (who have no tail).

An example (besides the tail we still *do* display as embryos): The plantaris muscle in the calf. That's a body part that we share with the other primates ... but this muscle is thin and useless in humans and serves no known purpose ... but the same muscle in other primates is the one responsible for *grasping with the feet*.

(Funny how natural selection somehow made all of us primates all the same ... almost as if we evolved from the same ancestor ... NAW, that would make TOO MUCH SENSE!)

So primates have branched into several different species. Each of those species have certain defining characteristics that distinguishes that species from the other primates. E.g. we are hairless, they are hairy.

Why? Because the definition of *species* is that we humans can all interbreed with each other, but not with the other apes ... we are GENETICALLY ISOLATED from them. So common characteristics (like hairlessness, or a big brain) will spread throughout the gene pool of fellow humans, but since we cannot breed with other apes, there is no way for a characteristic that spreads through the human population to *also* spread into the ape population. That's why all humans are "basically the same" in the sense that they are different from the other apes.

It's really NOT that complicated.

Answer 3

Ok, another stupid creation question. The answer to your question is that natural selection depends on SURVIVAL, and people with three arms or three eyes generally don't survive. Furthermore, evolution occurs by very slowly changing the gene pool of a species, not by changing any particular individual, per se, and certainly by not making any sudden radical changes in the gene pool. We all look the same, complete with pubic hair and everything else, because we are all one single gene pool. A beneficial mutation, if it occurs, takes many generations to overwhelm and out compete the existing gene pool population. If you want a species with eight arms, say, then that will require a completely different gene pool, and thus perhaps a wholly and radically different species, which might in fact be a squid or octopus, for instance, but dfinitely not a human.
Evolution best explains critters like the elephant, where the nose grew gradually longer and longer. If someone had actually created a large lumbering herbivore, a trunk makes absolutely no sense at all. Much better to create a fifth (and maybe a sixth) articulated limb, complete with bones and fingers for grabbing and harvesting leaves and then stuffing them into the mouth of the creature. But we don't see any 6-limbed elephants, or six limbed birds, even though they make much more sense from a creation standpoint. This is because they all evolved from a single four legged common ancestor, so they were essentially "stuck" with just four limbs to work with. But like you said, this (evolution stuff) would make too much sense.

Answer 4

It didn't make us all the same. It made some of us capable of understanding and comprehending rational scientific discourse, and others of us prone to simply believing the mythology of a pre-literate society of nomadic sheepherders.

If this were a serious question, we could have discussed the diversity of hominids that did evolve as well as the extinction events that led to the survival of just our species today. Oh... and whether or not H. floresensis is a ligitimate species, because the implications of that are really interesting... but whatever. Reading about fairies and magic is certainly easier to deal with for some people...

Answer 5

You have natural selection exactly backwards!! Mutation, among other things, presents natural selection the variation it works on. It winnows out those things that are not adaptive to the organism, in the environment it is in. So, naturally, you get a organism the varies, but not greatly from a reproductively successful mean. That is the beauty of the theory; to bad you are too ignorant to see that.

Answer 6

All humans have the same body parts because we're all one species. Same goes for a species of monkeys. We have what body parts we have because they're useful, and essential. Some body parts (ex. tailbones) are "leftovers" from our ancestors. I've noted that in your profile, you say you are a creationist. Still, you should probably pick up a book on evolution, and page through it so you don't make any more ridiculous assumptions about science.

steadfast, I ran a Google search, and you were right! I suppose they used that as an example in bio. because it was easy to explain. Much thanks for the clarification!

Answer 7

have you ever heard of genetics? i comprehend it is an imprecise field that not too many human beings exterior of braniacs and stuffy educational-varieties have ever heard approximately, yet undergo with me. It variety of boils right down to the theory that we proportion particular inherited actual traits that come from our mum and dad. If the two between the mum and dad bypass on a gene that dictates 2 palms, there is almost a one hundred% risk that the youngster could have 2 palms to boot. Why isn't it one hundred%? undesirable gene splicing. Mutations in the DNA sequence. In some genetic variations, undesirable crossover web content. Faulted chemical ranges in the prenatal atmosphere. In some variations, dominant/recessive genes. and so on., and so on. The checklist could desire to bypass on for pages. All those strategies of messing up the genetics...kinda sounds like it wasn't planned out very properly, huh? subsequently, variations happen...yet on condition that gene-based inheritance is extremely, very good (yet not one hundred% precise), and organic decision then has to artwork on the perfect product, amassing variations for the duration of any given inhabitants can take somewhat an prolonged time...it somewhat is kinda what evolutionists have been saying for a whilst, ain't it? EDIT: In regard to the way you edited your submit, you're flat out incorrect. confident, new suggestions is discovered continuously that has us upadting our suggestions. whether, the basics of the thought, and the info pronounced (a minimum of right down to my submit) have not been discarded. pointing out that technological know-how is an ongoing technique does not right away invalidate suggestions already collected.

Answer 8

Science doesn't claim to know or have all the answers, unlike you smug right wing Christians who think you know everything through blind, unquestioning and unreasoning faith. That's why you find yourselves ever more marginalized in the public arena and are regarded with an increasingly skeptical public eye. You are not only irrational. You have made yourselves irrelevant through your brash ignorance.

Answer 9

Regarding tailbones, they are NOT leftovers, they are essential to your dignity. In other terms, the "tailbone" supports the muscles that keep you from crapping in your pants.