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!

ok as for science. Scientist are changing their mind every month about genes. Each time they dig a little deeper into the gene make up and their old theory is thrown out.

Answer 1

I have often wondered this myself. where are the half ways? Why are there not varying degrees of evolving species?

I think too often people confuse evolution with adaptation. I believe that animals can adapt and change...like the varying kinda of dogs...but they were always dogs. :D

Answer 2

Have you ever heard of genetics? I know it's an obscure field that not too many people outside of braniacs and stuffy academic-types have ever heard about, but bear with me.

It roughly boils down to the idea that we share certain inherited physical traits that come from our parents. If both of the parents pass on a gene that dictates two arms, there's almost a 100% chance that the kid will have two arms as well.

Why isn't it 100%?

Bad gene splicing.
Mutations in the DNA sequence.
In some genetic changes, bad crossover sites.
Faulted chemical levels in the prenatal environment.
In some differences, dominant/recessive genes.
Etc., etc. The list could go on for pages.

All those ways of messing up the genetics...kinda looks like it wasn't planned out very well, huh?

Thus, changes occur...but given that gene-based inheritance is very, very good (but not 100% accurate), and natural selection then has to work on the final product, accumulating changes throughout any given population can take quite a long time...that's kinda what evolutionists have been saying for a while, ain't it?

EDIT: In regard to how you edited your post, you are flat out wrong. Yes, new information is found constantly that has us upadting our information. However, the basics of the theory, and the facts mentioned (at least down to my post) have not been discarded. Pointing out that science is an ongoing process does not automatically invalidate information already accumulated.

Answer 3

If you appear very carefully, all monkeys have the identical frame materials as individuals do too (besides they've a tail). And so do apes (who don't have any tail). An illustration (except the tail we nonetheless *do* show as embryos): The plantaris muscle within the calf. That's a frame side that we percentage with the opposite primates ... however this muscle is skinny and vain in individuals and serves no identified intent ... however the identical muscle in different primates is the only accountable for *greedy with the ft*. (Funny how common decision come what may made all people primates all of the identical ... nearly as though we advanced from the identical ancestor ... NAW, that could make TOO MUCH SENSE!) So primates have branched into a number of distinct species. Each of the ones species have distinct defining features that distinguishes that species from the opposite primates. E.g. we're hairless, they're bushy. Why? Because the definition of *species* is that we individuals can all interbreed with each and every different, however no longer with the opposite apes ... we're GENETICALLY ISOLATED from them. So average features (like hairlessness, or a enormous mind) will unfold in the course of the gene pool of fellow individuals, however given that we can't breed with different apes, there's no approach for a attribute that spreads by way of the human populace to *additionally* unfold into the ape populace. That's why all individuals are "just about the identical" within the feel that they're distinct from the opposite apes. It's quite NOT that elaborate.

Answer 4

You're really going to have to look a little harder. The last time I checked, I definitely did not have the same body parts as my boyfriend.... beyond that, men and women are extremely different, in how they process their experiences, their behavioral patterns, their socialization preferences and skills... the 3 arms and one leggeds are all gone, they were eaten a long time ago (that darn natural selection at work). And as for monkeys, try a book. They are not all the same....this is your argument for what???? Do you really not understand how DNA functions?

Answer 5

The one-head-four-limbs is the basic model of terrestrial vertebrates. It works. There are many variations of it - in birds and bats the forelimbs have become wings, in primates and some others they are arms. You really should read what Natural Selection is all about. It is clear you have no understanding of it at all. You could do worse than starting with the FAQ at the Talk Origins Archive at http://www.talkorigins.org or reading The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.

Answer 6

All animals of the same species are basically the same. Apes didn't turn into humans one at a time.
We evolved AS A SPECIES. The next time you criticize something you should do a little research.

Answer 7

God creates all things-Yes?

Natural Selection and Evolution are Tools of the Great Spirit-

Answer 8

Hmmm. Have you ever seen an ant colony? There can be millions of amazingly similar ants in it.

Natural selection picks what works, and then that thing reproduces like crazy.

Get it?

Answer 9

Yes created with a hole in our head that we eat and breath out of making it very easy to choke. Why didn't he create us with a breathing hole somewhere else? Doesn't sound very logical to me. Oh wait....god exists outside of human understanding of logic......I mean how are we supposed to understand the logic of something that complex and loving?!?!?!

Answer 10

The changes are minor and happen over millions of years. Not major and over night like you would suggest.