I can accept that my grandfather was a monkey, but there's no way he was some shrub. I don't need science to tell me that. What is wrong with you people? Just because I had an ancestor in common with G.W. Bush doesn't make you evolutionists right.
2007-10-01 09:19:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
what about the Knights who say "Knee".?
2007-10-01 09:22:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 0⤋
You are mistakenly assuming that all mutations are detrimental. Environmental pressure does weed out the deleterious mutations. But it also favors the mutations that are beneficial, and this is where evolution occurs. "Favorable" and "unfavorable" are with respect to the environmental pressure. Without this pressure, more mutations would be *neutral*. More environmental pressure means more mutations are favorable AND more are unfavorable. For example, imagine that being tall is advantageous in the current environment. A mutation that makes people shorter will die out, but so will the no-mutation state of average height, while a mutation that makes people taller will survive. People will evolve to be taller. In the absence of environmental pressure, there is no preferential survival. Short people, tall people, and the vast majority who are of average height all have an equal chance at survival. The average height of the population does not change. There is more variety in the population, but no evolution. As for distinct variations of humans, that requires populations to be genetically isolated. Now that different races intermarry so often, the effective population is the entire species.
2016-05-18 03:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are free to choose whether you agree with it or if you don't but you may as well understand the theory before you decide:
Evolution is NOT just saying that we came from apes, its saying that ALL life forms are interconnected and that indeed ALL life forms evolved from a single cell organism that started in the oceans and then mutated into different forms, eventually coming ashore and then further differentiating into ALL terrestrial life forms, some of which are more closely related to us (apes) and some of which are not (plants).
I'm not trying to push this down your throat, just trying to stop all the violent discussion.
It doesn't really matter all that much if its exactly true or not, what matters is that we find a way to peacefully coexist without bashing people who have different points of view.
I don't know what to believe but I do believe in peace and love. Peace out.
2007-10-01 09:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
Can you accept you came from a shrew-like mammal? A lizard? A fish? Where do you draw the line...and why? Is it your disgust at being related to them?
2007-10-01 09:26:38 · answer #4 · answered by Meat Bot 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying Bush is a monkey?
2007-10-01 09:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by Wonder 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Minerals? I am definitely a diamond in the ruff
2007-10-01 09:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by Cinthia Round house kicking VT 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Malevolutionists will stop at nothing to try to tell us that we're all sorts of things we're not.
(Malevolution is a portmanteau of malevolence and evolution, if anybody was wondering)
2007-10-01 09:23:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 0⤋
I know people named Rose, Lily, and Jasmine.
2007-10-01 09:38:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't care what you say because I came from a tulip because tulips are pretty and smell good and go well with other flowers in arrangements and yeah.
2007-10-01 09:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 · 11⤊ 0⤋
You've been spending too much time on Gaila's questions, haven't you? it's not plants, it's planEts.
Holst is GOD!
2007-10-01 09:52:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
interestingly, there are some plants that have the same intelligence as a goldfish... absolutely fascinating.
2007-10-01 09:28:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋