Evolutionists....some questions?

Question

Where did the space for the universe come from?
Where did matter come from?
Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
How did matter get so perfectly organized?
Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
When, where, why, and how did life come from non-living matter?
When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
(drdino.com)

serious answers please. and these havent been found in a text book

Answer 1

Don't know; doesn't mean that "gawddidit" is the correct answer.

Answer 2

The problem with questions like these is they require more than any simple answer can give -- often, the answer to one question requires a lot of background. Such question require nor merely an entire science course, but a full schedule of science course. It just seems like simplified answers become perfect straw-men for someone to knock down.

When my cousin was little, we told him watches worked because tiny ghouls turned the arms from behind the face. Answering, questions like this often feel like trying to explain the workings of a watch to someone who insists on believing in the ghoul theory. Explain that there are gears, and get asked what makes them turn. Add electricity and get asked where it comes from. Mention the battery and get ask how that work -- and suddenly your being asked to teach chemistry and electromagnetic theory -- then quantum mechanics. All this assuming you have the background to teach all this, lots of time, and someone who will bother to listen.

Likewise, say the fittest survive and get asked where the difference comes from; bring up mutations and get ask where they come from AND how they could really lead to change, and so on. Entire books and college (even graduate courses) have been written on many of the questions above. Other are not fully understood by science. Still other really don't make any sense if you actually understand the subject. Something questions fail to grasp the basic concepts of science of the theorys they question.

Take, "How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)" -- a better analogy would be engineers adding improvements to line of cars, until decades later they look nothing alike. The difference is that with mutations, no one plans the changes, and most are harmful or fatal -- but everyone once in a great while lucky improvement happens. (This is all simplified.)

Or, "Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind...." Well, its not what the animal wants, its what benifits the species. If each pair of mice produce exactly two mice, so that each mouse only produce a replacement to itself, mice would go extinct as soon as the first cats showed up (think about it). Mice continue as a group because they reproduce enough to negate the fact that many mice will die -- mice are able to spread to new territory because they reproduce more than enough. This is incredibly simplified, read up on eccology and population dynamics.

And so on...

Answer 3

good job copying this. have you no original thought of your own? but anyways. some of your questions have nothing to do with evolution thus proving your ignorance of the subject. but i will answer as much i can.

the universe was always here.

matter and energy was always here

the since matter and energy where always here then so do the laws that govern them.

matter isnt organized, what are you talking about. if it was then you would die from lack of oxygen because the gases in the atmosphere would be separated. the universe favors chaos.

again energy was always here.

all you need is a few amino acids to combine and you have a simple protein. get enough of those and you have life. "living matter is made of non-living matter". atoms do not live and neither do proteins or molecules.

a long time ago, in the "soup" the earth was when it was young, i dont know how

through the process of mitosis (at least a very early form)

plants came first and they reproduce to pass on their genes so they wont die out.

if a gene is changed the protien it helps make is also changed and also the protein function. the protein to make a claw might change to make a fingernail type thing.

believe in a common creator if you want, though evolution doesnt prove that.


i feel i should also define what evolution is for you. it is the PROCESS of how LIFE CHANGES AND ADAPTS TO ITS ENVIRIONMENT TO FOR THE BEST CHANCE AT SURVIVAL. you cant have evolution without life so the first few questions were actually astro-physics type of questions

Answer 4

1. space has always existed, time has only existed since the big bang, since time as we know it is only marked by the increase in the universe's entropy.

2. matter existed in two parts until some form of matter and some form of anti-matter met at some point in that first little ball of stuff and blew all of it apart.

3. gravity exists as a depression in the fabric of space-time, the bigger the mass, the bigger depression. most laws of the universe are really only driven by the universe's constant drive towards disorder and chaos, because that is the lowest energy state, which is the most stable.

4. matter isn't perfectly organized, that only happens at 0 K, which you can't actually get to.

5. actually the organization is due to a lack of energy, so a better question would be where the energy go?

6. actually scientists have reproduced conditions similar to the beginning of life on earth, and have found that inorganic materials can synthesize organic materials necessary for life.

7. life, and especially cells, reproduce because of enzymes contained in the actual life form. those enzymes form naturally.

8. cells can't reproduce sexually.

9. individuals have always had the drive to survive, that's an instinctual thing brought about by evolution. if an individual has a drive to survive, it will live and reproduce, as opposed to one that has no drive to survive.

10. random mutations happen at a fairly low rate, but beneficial ones mean that the organism will have more offspring, passing on those genes. and your example makes absolutely no sense. however, have you ever heard that a thousand monkeys typing at a thousand typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of shakespeare?

11. if it suggests a common creator, he must have been a damn lazy one, especially for being all powerful. we share 60% of our genetic code with a banana, how much omnipotence does it take to change genetic codes across kingdoms?

Answer 5

Just because science does not have all the answers to the questions does not mean that the cause was supernatural.

The big bang theory, and the theory of evolution. Two separate theories.

And everything isn't so perfectly organized. If it was, there wouldn't be meteors, ect.
Since things die, any species unable to make more of itself would not survive. They would die out. This is only logical.

Mutations can be harmful (as in cancer), or beneficial. People with the beneficial mutations reproduce and make more of their kind. This is called natural selection.

Oh, and Dr. Dino is a major fraud.

Answer 6

It would be impossible to answer all these questions here in any reasonable amount of time. Most of these individual questions are in fact entire graduate level courses. Also, these questions are science questions and not religious questions. Mostly high school level questions and not the tough questions a doctoral student would ask, but still hard if you really have no skills whatsoever. Still you are in the wrong section. You need to split these questions up and ask them one at a time in the appropriate discipline.

However, I thought I would help you start out on your quest. A good book on the physics components would be "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe," by Sir Roger Penrose.

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Reality-Complete-Guide-Universe/dp/0679776311/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-4292505-2509710?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185134747&sr=8-1

If you finish it, I would be glad to recommend graduate level texts in the biology components you want, but you really need to read Penrose's book so you also have the beginnings of an adequate background to study the biology. Biology, after all, is really just a specialized extension of chemistry and physics.

If you do not have a firm background in multivariate calculus, you should still be able to read this book, though with difficulty. On the other hand, biology programs around the country are beginning to mandate multivariate calculus for undergraduates so you soon won't be able to read a biology book without it either.

Answer 7

Back about 40 years ago some guy named Erik von Daniken made the argument. "We can't explain how the Egpytians built the pyramids, how the giant head statues on Easter Island were put there by the natives..." and a lot of other things. He concluded, "These things must have been done by or with the help of Ancient Astronauts from space." his book, later debunked, was called Chariots of the Gods.

Likewise, the fact that you do not know the answers to these questions does not mean that "God did it." Physics actually have some pretty good ideas on answers to many of the questions on your list. The fact that we can't yet explain the details of how evolution worked does not mean "It must have been Creationism."

Don't let your faith in God get wrapped up (and ultimately dependent) on the validity of Creationism vs evolution.

Answer 8

I'm not an evolutionist, but I'll answer. I once did an anti-evolution speech, so I've done a lot of research on it, and I can say evolution answers non of theses questions with good solid unshakable evidence. All I know for sure is there's more evidence for creation than there is for evolution (in response to your last question).

Awesome that you've heard of Dr. Dino. Have you seen any of his videos? They're great, and explain pretty much everything you need to know about evolution vs. creation. (I've seen all seven of his CSE seminar videos.)

Answer 9

Over half your questions have absolutely nothing to do with evolution. That fact clearly shows your total lack of knowledge of the basics of the Theory. I suggest you Google 'evolution' and get yourself some basic facts before you come here and make yourself sound like a fool.

Answer 10

If you really want answers, Please ask one question at a time. I suspect though you have no interest in the truth or else you wouldn't be engaging in such dishonest machine gun tactics. But here goes anyway.

Personally I believe reality is ultimately mathematics (necessary logical truth) . It only looks like space and time because we see so little of it. Nothing is ever really created. The key here is a powerful selection effect (our existence ) which selects the portion of reality we find ourselves in. Only in very interesting portions (ones that appear as rapidly expanding space-time) of this vast infinite reality could we evolve.

Our understanding of reality is layered. You see the world in terms of large physical objects. But you are aware that those are illusions made up of atoms, and atoms in turn are made of smaller particles. Many believe that these so called "fundamental" particles are not fundamental but are built on a layer of mathematical objects called strings. My belief is that all reality including space-time itself is built upon mathematics and mathematics is what is truly fundamental.

The reason why we see top layers instead of lower layers is due to our inability to see all of the the details in the lower layers.

The reasons for my belief are way too involved to cover here so I will just post a link to something simple enough that you might understand it. I fear my actual reasons are likely to be well beyond your comprehension unless you have a very advanced gaduate physics background.


http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0704/0704.0646v1.pdf


As mathematics ( necessary logical truth ) is fundamental and necessary it is not created. Existence simply equals necessary truth. Mathematics "just is" because it is necessary and tautologically simple ( Zero complexity ). But Mathematics does not create reality. Mathematics is reality.

The problem with the design hypothesis is your god needs to be more complex and hence more unlikely than the reality you are attempting to explain. Saying your god just is, still leaves a much bigger question than you had to begin with.

Since I have taken graduate level cosmology I will tell you how mass and energy are thought to have formed because most people do not know.

As most people are aware total mass/energy are thought to be conserved.

However most people do not know Gravitational potential energy is negative.

Rapid inflation results in large amounts of both normal mass/energy and gravitational potential energy which are thought to exactly balance each other.

Most of mass/energy you observe today formed in the first few milliseconds after the big bang as a direct result of the extremely rapid inflation which produces normal energy balanced with gravitational potential energy summing up to zero.

Seriously just ask one question at a time. What you are doing is a dishonest debate practice called Machine Gun tactics. It simply shows you have no real interest in the truth.

Answer 11

Answer not from a text book? Do you want us to make up something on the spot? Because there are Answers to all your questions.