If we evolved from fish.....?

Question

Why don't fish start walking and turning into humans

Answer 1

That would be metamorphosis, not evolution.

Answer 2

When it comes to science why do you think you're an expert. Do you have any idea how much more education folks like me, secret sauce, ATPman, ? and lovely green eyes have than you do?

We are equipped to approach the unknown with an open mind, sharp analytical skills, and technical knowledge. None of us were born this way. We worked our assess off to become scientists. Many of our classmates didn't make it along the way, but we did. We have all made significant contributions to our species understanding of the physical world. We are experts, you and your pastor are not experts.

I'm not asking you to trust us when we tell you that not a single experiment exists that discredits the general idea of the evolution of species by natural selection.

I'm saying that you have two options, agree with us, or abstain from forming an opinion. The third option, to disagree with, us no longer exists to you. You have not earned it.

Evolution is a complicated, highly complex mechanism. You will not be able to appreciate the data until you have earned your stripes as we have.

My suggestion to you is this. The next time you come across an inconsistency in your mind (such as the question you asked). Don't get defensive, and don't start throwing stones at scientists. Take it as an opportunity to increase your understanding. This attitude is the first step in becoming a scientist.

Be humble, we work hard to uncover facts. If you don't understand what we've uncovered, the short coming is yours not ours.

Finally, have you ever seen an electron? Smelled one? No? Well maybe they don't exist! If electrons come from the disentigration of neutrons why are there still neutrons?

Do you see how moronic that sounds? But hey it's physics and the bible is silent about the atomic basis of matter. It's only when biology and religion intersect that you have a problem right? Right. You're problem is religion.

Answer 3

As I (and many other contributors to Biology) have said before, vertebrate evolution takes tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years. Humans (in our current form) only arrived about 30-50 thousand years ago, somewhat recently in an evolutionary time scale. Scientists have only recently begun (150 years) to investigate the theory of evolution, and only for about the past 40 or so years have they had decent means to explore the genetic bases of evolution.

What does this mean? It means humans haven't been around looking for a fish to walk out of water and turn into a human long enough to actually see it.

Not that it really matters, anyway. If a fish ever walked out of water and became a human, you could just about shoot the theory of evolution as we know it right out of the water. In no way does this idea of fish and humans stand in any correlation to the theory of evolution.

If humans did evolve from fish, you would see (in fossil records, genetic evidence, etc.) in some degree at different times the ability of the fish to live on land, fish with lungs, fish with skin, fish with 5 fingers and opposable thumbs, fish with a 4 chambered heart, fish with the ability to walk upright, etc, etc, etc (I'm over simplifying here, but you get the picture). Scientists don't see this. They see human decsent from a primate, simian-like ancestor.

EDIT: Big Daddy--No one ever said the theory of evolution was flawless. But, it is the best interpretation of all the data (scientific, empirical evidence) that describes the variety of life on Earth now.

EDIT: imagindesirecreate--huh? The speed of evolution doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it has and continues to occur. It's speed is a reality of the environmental factors and mutability of the genome of each individual species. You surely don't think that all mutations in all organisms occur over the same time period, do you? You can see evolution of bacteria strains in a matter of a few weeks (if not faster) in a lab environment. A new vaccine for the flu virus is produced every year because of the its mutation rate. (Granted, viruses aren't necessarily considered viruses, but they do evolve.)

EDIT: rwl_is_taken--Thankfully, belief does not equal evolution. If no one ever thought evolution occurred, it would still go on. If no one believed in God, would he (or she, or it, or they) still exist?

Answer 4

It took more than a hundred million years for evolution to get from early lung-fish through amphibians, reptiles, and mammals to humans.

And actually you do see fish around today that are very much like the ones that first started moving around on land. You find them in mangrove swamps and other areas where the ability to cross over limited stretches of ground is useful for a fish.

Answer 5

if we evolved.... they already did so doing that again would be going back-or de-evolving....
why is it so hard to believe?
human+100's years of man's knowledge=theory of life based on observed universal laws achieved only during life
human+God=eternal complete understanding and knowledge of life but only achieved after death
why can't evolution be the way God worked?
Is evolution beyond the power of God?
Will evolution explain why we are here?
Has religion explained why we are here?
Can God explain why we are here?
why does it have to be one or the other?
can you believe in both evolution and God?
I can and I guess we will all find out eventually but until then arguing about it is futile and useless.
in my opinion.
A fish could indeed walk up to the white house lawn and ask for worms and it would not affect my personal beliefs about God or evolution, it would however change my eating habits.

Answer 6

dude humans didn't evolve from fish
besides if we did we'd all be clean

we came from a type of monkey which name i cannot remember

and if we had came from fish i'm pretty sure there wouldn't b any land on earth

Answer 7

We didn't evolve from fish, they evolved down a different path than humans did.

Why do so many creationists evolve into simple fools? (or is it the other way around)

Answer 8

We didnt eveolve from Fish, we supposedly eveolved from apes. Kind of. Well, most of us have. This is of course of you believe in evolution. If we were to have evolved from fish, in theory, it would take millions of years to see the progress....so the scientific community states. But seriously, do you believe that as complex and wonderful we are as human beings that we evolved from apes?

Answer 9

because we may not have evolved from fish?

i think its bogus to believe that Darwin knew exactly what happened so that we became humans.

We could have evolved
We could have been created by God
We could be part of a giant alien tv show.

We could just admit that no one knows and get on with our lives, how bout that? That sounds like a plan to me. I'm gonna go do that and make me some spaghetti.

Answer 10

That is not how it works.
Here is a simple site with simple explanations, you need to educate yourself a little before you voice a position on it.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/misconceps/IHowitworks.shtml

Answer 11

Well, at least your moronic question was a new twist on a old creationist " chestnut "