If everything has been evolving for millions of years, then according to the thoery of evolution everything should have evolved into the same species by now. This is just one more piece of evidence that blows away the thoery of evolution.
2007-06-20 10:30:28 · 11 answers · asked by Real Morgan Jones 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Well, for starters, various areas of science (geology, cosmology, astronomy, physics, chemistry) all generally agree on the age of the earth as about 4.5 BILLION years old, not just a few million.
This suggests that your level of knowledge is very limited, and that your other assumptions are unlikely to be correct. I would suggest you get some education first so you know what you are discussing, rather than just THINKING you know.
2007-06-20 10:43:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually you have it backwards. Let's look at a virus within the past hundred years or so. It can be just about any virus really. We'll just call ours Virus A. It lives happily within a human host and multiplies until it's death. Now that virus didn't produce one spawn or only one other human could get sick, when in reality many people can get sick from being around the contagious person.
Now, lets say that one travels and finds a host human that lives in a poor community that doesn't have vaccinations. Why does it need to change? It doesn't. It can continue to live it's life and death as it always has for generations.
Ok, now lets say that one of the spawns from Virus A infects a human that moves on to a community with vaccinations. If that virus doesn't adapt quick enough it will be wiped out. But given enough of a chance, it will change so that it can still reproduce and live on in human hosts. It evolved. Now you have a new virus, a mutation of the first. So, you now have Virus A, and Virus B. Virus B being called a new virus for easier distinction. Given millions of years of this you would have a great number of viruses.
Now, I am not taking out God. Maybe God designed life to adapt in this fashion. Who knows.
This is just one more piece of evidence that blows your argument away. I think you need to seriously read into the subject of evolution quite a bit more. It sounds like you are arguing against something you know very little about. If you want to make effective arguments against evolution you need to know the other argument too. Otherwise you come out looking very ignorant in the matter (not saying that you are).
2007-06-22 14:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by An S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! The Real Morgan Jones is a fake! The Theory of Evolution (generally) states that life forms will diverge, not converge. Also, FYI, the Earth is billions (not millions) of years old. But then, living life wearing blinders does tend to limit ones vision.
2007-06-20 14:58:42 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution isn't convergent (although it does happen). Species evolve to occupy niche' (s) that aren't already occupied and as such become specialized to survive in a narrow range of enviormental conditions. If there were just one species occupying the entire earth, they would need to be very generalist, and any species that was better adapted to survive in a more specialized way would outcompete the generalist. However humans are becoming so intelligent and better adapted to surviving almost anywhere (because of technology) that they are able to outcompete with almost any species on the planet - which leads to extinction of other species.
2007-06-20 10:39:45 · answer #4 · answered by Chin 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Theory of Evolution does not say that everything will evolve into the same species.
Give it up, religion is a faith-based concept, not a fact-base concept! You only cheapen faith by trying to make it answer all questions.
2007-06-20 10:47:15 · answer #5 · answered by ekil422 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The theory of evolution (TOE) says no such thing. Speciation is one species changing into a another over time. It doesn't say that all species will become one.
Read the links below to see more about TOE. Even if you don't agree with it, you should at least know what you are talking about.
2007-06-20 10:36:43 · answer #6 · answered by Wayne B 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Earth is actually estimated to be 5 billion years old.
Evolution works by speciation. Species of plants and animals will drift apart in territory, natural selection will kick in working on mutations and sexual cross over of alleles, and gradually what was once one species becomes two (or even more).
Darwin received this key insight from his study of different bird species on the Galapagos Islands. Migration from island to island divided what once were one species into many.
Once divided, species never join together again. Hence, over so much time we can't comprehend it, millions of species evolve out of the truly ancient unicellular life forms we all descended from.
2007-06-20 10:51:37 · answer #7 · answered by SallyJM 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thats an interesting idea, I've never seen that proposed as part of the theory of evolution. In your logical theory what would this single species eat?
2007-06-20 15:12:54 · answer #8 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no ONE perfect species. Each has a niche, designed and designated by the very evolution that made it.
Besides, God created everything, and thus created science, and therefore theories like evolution.
2007-06-27 09:52:54 · answer #9 · answered by Psy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question makes no sense at all. What would that final product be? Part monkey-part giraffe-part midget? Dont get into too many conversations about evolution. You dont have a clue.
2007-06-28 09:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by phlada64 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋