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why have all the animals in the world stopped evolving including man?
Common sense says, if we evolved, then we should still be evolving, right? if not, why? We are far from perfect, and the worlds climate is changing.
I don't see anyone developing anti ultraviolet skin because of the ozone hole, gills like water world if the polar caps melt away, or maybe some extra cooling organs for the global warming.
how can anyone believe this stuff, it doesn't follow any scientific logic, it contradicts itself. when are the scientist gonna come up with something that doesn't insult our intelligence? we can go to space, but we can't get our story straight on our own planet!

2007-08-04 18:16:25 · 6 answers · asked by 1001001 2 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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Evolution is only a theory. It has never been proven. Because of similarity of features of birds and animals Darwin proposed that they evolved. There is no such a thing as "missing link".

Its so simple God created everything.

2007-08-05 00:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by deo 3 · 1 0

Who says they (or we) have stopped evolving? With the exception of extinction, which has ceased the evolution of many creatures (do-do birds, carrier pidgeons, etc.), all creatures alive at this time ARE in the process of evolving still.

I think you suffer from a lack of perspective. Evolution does not take place in a short time. Rather, traits begin to appear or disappear from a population over millions of years--but we humans are capable of altering our environment at a much faster rate--faster, in fact, than we or other species can evolve to adapt (one of the draw backs of our own evolution).

One exception to all this would have to be the all-too common cockroach. They are capable of parthenogenesis--meaning that even if they lack a mate, they can fertilize themselves and they can survive upwards of three hundred-times the radiation that humans can. (They have actually been found to thrive in nuclear test sites). They have indeed evolved quite successfully.

But if you doubt me on any of this, take a look at the skeleton of a boa constrictor and you will find that where the body terminates into a much narrower tail, there are the remnants of two leg-bones, which just kind of free-float unattached within their muscle tissue during life--these are evidence that the boa once had legs and now it's body is slowly losing the very last vestiges of the larger back legs.
There are also lung-fish, one of the last remnants of our crawling out of the sea relatives, and a species of creature known as a walking snake, which still has protrusions where it's relatives used to have legs, a couple million years ago, and which still sort of ambles along rather than slithering, which it's body is not yet capable of doing, but will be--in a few more million years, but I doubt that you or I will be around to see it then. But I'm sure there will still be creationists and evolutionists--only THEY probably won't have pinkies or hair.

2007-08-04 18:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by starkneckid 4 · 0 1

We are evolving. We have the ability to digest more types of food than thousands of years ago. We are getting taller and we have many other internal processes that have evolved to fit our modern day diets. It takes a long time to notice the difference but we're definitely evolving. The ozone problem is a fairly new one so if people still exist in a thousand years I'm sure we will adapt.

2007-08-04 18:26:34 · answer #3 · answered by Eisbär 7 · 1 1

We are still evolving. There are already reports of AIDS resistant people surviving longer than others. Give it two hundred years and they will be the ancestors of most of the people alive then, unless science has a major breakthrough.

2007-08-04 18:35:36 · answer #4 · answered by balloon buster 6 · 0 1

it takes about millions of years for evolution to occur and it takes a gradual effect..

there are many causes of evolution including radiation. Frogs living nuclear reactors are discovered to have possesed excessed limbs, heads and torso.

evolution has not stopped. it so slow and it takes a million of years for it to occur that you don't notice it.

2007-08-04 18:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by physics maniac 2 · 0 1

Evolution hasn't stopped.
It's a slow process.
You're watching just one frame of the movie.

2007-08-04 19:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0 1

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