Imagine this scenario:
Through the use of enzymes and hormones, scientists working with human embryos manage to suppress expression of already coded for traits, or magnify the expression of other traits already coded for in such a way that they were able to reproduce all hominid ancestors proposed by the theory of evolution.
In other words, they were able to experimentally reproduce all "cavemen" and other prehistoric apes and hominids in the human phylogenetic tree; they made neanderthals, cro magnons, homo erectus, etc. entirely from modern human DNA.
If they were able to do this, how many of you who do not believe the theory of evolution would change your minds? Why or why not?
For the sake of argument, let's pretend that the experiment was shown to be flawless, valid, and repeatable. What would this mean?
2007-06-04 12:56:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Incidentally, in case I did not make it obvious enough, this is an entirely hypothetical scenario. I am in no way saying this either has happened or could happen.
2007-06-04 17:25:39 · update #1
meaningless hyperbole
2007-06-04 12:58:23 · answer #1 · answered by michael 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For starters, I do believe in evolution, only people who don't understand the basics of it claim that it is full of flaws and has not been or cannot be proven. It happens everyday.
That said, the experiment you described would never happen. During our evolution we have lost some genes, gained some new genes, and the regulatory control of many genes has changed. It is impossible to experimentally reproduce cavemen from our DNA, without changing it to the DNA it was hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Well, even if someone did do this experiment successfully, there still would be people who don't believe in science, although they benefit from it greatly - just to mention that they drive huge cars (not walk) to their houses (not caves anymore) sit down in their huge armchairs (not rocks), turn on the tv with a remote and watch FOX news, and listen to imperfect and destorted reporting. It's a matter of proper education and the understanding of the scientific method, which a lot of people seem to lack and thus cannot believe in evolution despite mountains of evidence. By the way - the Catholic Church has nothing against evolution.
2007-06-04 18:14:58 · answer #2 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so if the recessive genes turn us into cavemen, or ape like creatures does this actually mean we are evolved?
How about recessive genes for spina biffida, Siamese twins, undecended testicles and third nipples? I guess this would mean that we, in our un-evolved state would all have had these.
Evolution is a theory only. A theory of what happened in the past. The only way we could prove such a theory would be to go back in time.
If you take a frog and wave a magic wand over it and it turns into a prince: frog+wand=prince we would call it a fairy tail.
If we take an ape and add millions of years and get a prince is it now evolution rather than a Farr tail?
How many evolutionists does it take to change a light-bulb?
None. Just wait millions of years and it will change itself.
2007-06-04 16:25:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the sake of argument, whether it was shown to be flawless, valid, and repeatable or not, I still would think they faked their data, and I (currently) believe in evolution ! After years and years of research, if it was slightly off track, they would just fiddle a sequence here or there, to make the pieces fit. You can't trust scientists, they want too-much to be proven right.
2007-06-04 16:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by =42 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure, The only thing I could say is Neanderthal would not be one. Neanderthal were a completely different species and not related to man genetically.
2007-06-04 16:07:16 · answer #5 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
different things to different people i would guess.
to me. it would mean nothing at all. i follow an ancient religion. and figure that cavemen andthe like must have existed for us to get where we are today. however i believe that they were probably smarter than we give them credit for.
2007-06-04 16:04:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, I would not change my mind
God created man
I do believe that this world is billions of years old and who knows
what what on earth before us
God said go and replenished the earth
so it was already once plenished
2007-06-04 16:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That irrefutable proof. And I guess Geico would some new employees, lol
2007-06-04 13:06:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool.
2007-06-04 12:58:17 · answer #9 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee are there any pictures. Can we see them.
2007-06-04 16:09:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋