I'm all for it. I'm just wondering when it will hit Georgia.
2007-07-20 10:22:00
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answer #1
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answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7
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The theory is what gets me. It's only a theory. Some people might think natural selection is a part of the theory of evolution. Natural selection is just a logical process of survival for a particular gene. Natural selection is also a natural process that can happen with in a short time span. Tuskless elephants in Africa is a prime example. More elephants with tusk die more often because of man than tuskless elephants. So, that means more tuskless elephants are living long enough to pass on the gene for a tuskless elephant. You guys do the math.
2007-07-24 00:56:24
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answer #2
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answered by DCKilla 3
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Evolution is a subject that even great minds can't agree on let alone my little feable brain. But let me give it shot from just my view. I think that evolution is evident from just recorded history let alone the thousands (if not millions) of years of non recorded history. Our size, our intelligence, the extinction of certain civilizations, etc., etc. Therefore, I must believe that the same process was happening all the way back to when we were first created. The big question is, how? Did this just happen or is it by Intelligent Design? Why can't the "Evolutionist" and the "Intelligent Design" folks both be right? If we choose to call this Intelligent force God, who are we to say how God determines times? Why couldn't God be the force and design behind evolution causing it to happen? So, for me, I believe in evolution because the evidence is clear but I also believe that God is the force causing it to happen.
2007-07-20 11:13:17
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answered by Brad M 5
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I am an Atheist. But I no longer believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. I mean we were taught in school and it's a generally well accepted theory but it doesn't add up any more with the leaps and bounds in science. I will try to explain..
...Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a relatively young theory as the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander also theorised the evolution of life from non-life, many years before. So Darwin simply brought something new to the old philosophy -- a plausible theory "natural selection". Natural selection acts to preserve and accumulate small advantageous genetic mutations. Lets say a single member of a species mutated a nose, because it is advantagous to the species, its siblings would inherit that advantage and pass it on to their siblings and so on. The rest of the species that didn't have the advantage would gradually die out or go on to evolve into something different. What natural selection is, is the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild.
Darwin wrote, "Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, though slow steps". Darwin did say though, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down". Such a complex organ would be known as an "irreducibly complex system". An irreducibly complex system is one composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the system to function. If even one part is missing, the entire system will fail to function. Every individual part is integral. Thus, such a system could not have evolved slowly, piece by piece. The common mousetrap is an everyday non-biological example of irreducible complexity. It is composed of five basic parts: a catch (to hold the bait), a powerful spring, a thin rod called "the hammer", a holding bar to secure the hammer in place, and a platform to mount the trap. If any one of these parts is missing, the mechanism will not work. Each individual part is integral. The mousetrap is irreducibly complex.
So in today's world of science in the tremendous advances we've made in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics over the past fifty years. We now know that there are in fact tens of thousands of irreducibly complex systems on the cellular level. Specified complexity pervades the microscopic biological world. Molecular biologist Michael Denton wrote, "Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world."
And we don't need a microscope to observe irreducible complexity. The eye, the ear and the heart are all examples of irreducible complexity, though they were not recognised as such in Darwin's day. Nevertheless, Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
You now may ask yourself why am I not a Christian? if life hasn't evovled that leaves just one answer surely, life was created, and if it was created who created it? Well I don't believe in a God, but I believe in this science, so what do I think created life on earth. I believe along with 65,000 others that life was intelligently designed on Earth by artistic scientists from another world, it was they that created the first living creatures and learned from their experiments to develop more and more complex creatures each time. Who eventually mastered DNA and created more and more beautiful creatures, who then decided to create man in their image.
So you see there is a third theory of how complex life came to be on Earth, a theory of intelligent design but not by a God, but by scientists!
I really hope I didn't bore you then :)
Have fun buddy :)
2007-07-23 09:30:03
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answered by baroni2486 2
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I think anyone with an average IQ or better who bothers to read a good book on the subject(anything by Richard Dawkins, for example) will come to the conclusion that all life, including human life, has evolved from simple bacterial life over deep time. It is hard for we humans to get a grasp of big numbers. Life has existed on Earth for around 4.5 billion years. That's a long time for the process of evolution. Why do almost all scientists and virtually all biologists believe in evolution? Because they have studied it; they have read books.
2007-07-20 10:31:34
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answer #5
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answered by rationallady 4
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Evolution theory is a religious belief that fundamentally requires adherence to the religion of atheism and/or the religion of pantheism. “Evolution” is a hypothetical, unobserved process (without any known scientific mechanism) by which all things in the universe are said to have created themselves from nothing without needing the existence of a Creator. Evolution is a hypothetical process of onwards-and-upwards self-improvement where all things somehow create themselves and somehow increase their complexity of their own accord.
2007-07-20 14:54:51
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answer #6
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answered by Steve 4
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I don't believe in the whole concept, the evidence does not support it. A different dog can evolve from a set of dogs, but humans can not evolve from apes: impossible. And the scientist that sell that crap, only dissuade the thought that science is true and infallible. Many of those "finds" of Peking man, Neanderthal man, "Lucy", have been proven to be hoaxes.
Scientist have to police their own, so that we can again gain confidence in real science.
Just as in any other fields, science make money (by research papers), and there are cons willing to do anything to make money.
2007-07-20 10:26:49
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answered by Nifty Bill 7
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Evolution is all about a growing self awareness of ourselves as souls and the gradual bringing about the plan of God in the material plane.We are all on an eternal journey of becoming aware of our selves as Gods .Man himself is an emerging God and is brought about through the process of evolution over many eons of spiritual development.
2007-07-20 10:33:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Best explanation we have that is supported by reliable evidence. The only reason it's still a theory is that it can't be repeated and observed, given the length of time needed to run the experiment.
2007-07-20 10:25:03
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answered by Shawn B 7
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I think that liberals should stop insisting that we teach an unproven theory as fact, instead why don't we teach the FACT that nobody can prove where we came from, and teach the most popular theories which include creation and evolution, and let kids decide for themselves what they believe.
I'm astounded that we emphasize the "think for yourself" attitude but yet we teach a theory as a fact.
2007-07-20 10:24:41
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answered by Anonymous
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It is truth. Everything is in a constant state of evolution. There is/was no sky fairies, demons, devils, bogeymen, and other supernatural nonsense. If anything manages to manifest not native to our dimension it is some entity from a parallel dimension. Quanta mechanics associates the theory of multiple universes and these constitute a never beginning never ending sequence of events.
Jon B. It never started because it always was. There was never an original beginning.
2007-07-20 10:21:59
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answered by Don W 6
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