If evolution actually DID exist, how can you explain so many species?

Question

like look at all these animals, it didn't happen randomy guys. guy.s

Answer 1

You are right. Evolution is not random. It is guided by forces in the environment.

About all those species? They are the direct result of evolution.

Answer 2

This entire place is a system. This system is studied and understood, that study is called science. That knowledge is placed here by how this system works, what's its composed of and in what patterns does it run. When you Throw a rock in a still body of water, there's a ripple and it goes on depending on the size and force of the rock. But a ripple doesn't happen at random, someone has to cause it, that's the nature of this place, it's causality. The milky way galaxy is spinin' and there's a galaxy adjacent to it called Andromeda and its spinin'. They are close and are at one point become one and there will be explosions and stuff. Very long from now that will happen, not in a hundred, thousand, hundred thousand but who knows earth will be here when that happens. And that's how this universe runs. Time is a geocentric concept simple: What's a year in Saturn, a month, a week, a day, an hour, a minute, a second...? Time is a rhythm, a tempo upon which this all it running and measuring everything thing by earth standards, I don't know. When this galaxy is old as old can be, how can a solar system in it only be thousands of years old and a planet in it less? That's not the nature of this place, the creator is not a magician.

Answer 3

We have still yet to see any evidence of one species becoming another. Variations in the same species doesn't equate to evolution. For all we know at this stage is that those variations are preprogrammed in the DNA as possible variations. Mixing of DNA may make a new type of dog, but it is still a dog. So, even if a complex single cell organism managed to spontaneously form with perfect parts one time or even a thousand times, it wouldn't account for the wonderful variety of life here on Earth.

Answer 4

It is not a matter of whether or not evolution exists. We know it does. You would like to debate macro-evolution. This is difficult. Micro-evolution is a fact. Look at the Philippians. this is where I am doing research right now. On one island there are frogs that have one set of characteristics but on the next island they are slightly different. This is because they have been separated since the island chain formed. The resources are slightly different so the frogs that favored the change reproduced the others died. this lead to the creation of a new species of frog. Mutations happen. Some mutations are good and cause that mutation to continue.

Look at moths in England. We have documentation that one species of moth was white before the industrial revolution. Most of the trees had white bark. Now however, there are more dark moths. There are more dark trees in England also. This is evolution at it's finest. Before the revolution the dark moths stood out and were eaten quickly. The genes continued and when the revolution began the white moths now stand out and are eaten.

I too believe in god and Devinne intervention but we have to look at the facts.

Answer 5

Actually, contrary to an earlier answer, randomness (luck or chance) is extremely important in evolution.

The reason that you fail to grasp the importance of randomness is your inability to comprehend the enormity of time and its importance in allowing variations to arise.

Even if each specie develops into two species only once every 10 million years (a way long time for this to actually happen), after 4 billion years and starting with only one life form, there would be 2 times 10 to the 120 species (2 followed by 120 zeros). That is a lot of species. That is in only 400 steps.

Answer 6

actually, it did happen randomly. it took 2 billion years, mind you... but it did happen randomly.

let me explain a little bit about natural selection-

ok, first, we have to understand "genetic mutations"
don't go thinking "X-men", think little things, like a person with dwarfism being born to two normal parents, that both have no known dwarfism in their family history...or even smaller, like a albino... or even just a "ginger"

now, through millions of years, natural selection will determine which, if any, of these mutations is best for a given environment, given that if any of these mutations helps a given organism find food better, or helps them evade predators better, or just does something that will make living an easier affair for them in general.

that's why there are fish at the very bottom of the ocean have no real optics, but every other sense is ridiculously heightened.

thats why there are cheetas in the open plains of africa,
and pumas in the rainforests of brazil.- very similar animal, evolved from a common ancestor when there was a "super-continent"(pangea), but specialized to the enviroment that they each came to live in.


so yeah, randomly.

Answer 7

Time. Populations are isolated physically or biologically an diverge over time -- lots of time.

It is not "random", as the extent of relatedness between species can be determined. Although random factors are involved, there is an overlying order: replication and natural selection.

Answer 8

No, of course not. Everything in the universe follows a precise process. Babies do not just randomly appear full grown in the womb. Solar eclipses do not just appear out of the random will of gods. Each event follows certain patterns which are the result of laws. Now, what science does, is it tries to find those laws and figure out how they work.

Answer 9

Erm, given 3.8 billion years, with very short generational times for most of those years, the number of species we have now could actually be argued to be *smaller* than the numbr we should have.

3.8 billion years (that's 3800000000 years) is a long time, enough for many species to differentiate. It's like, 2^2 is 4, 4^2 is 16, 16^2 is.... way up there. It goes fast.

Answer 10

evolution not only did but does exist and it's the only way to explain the vast amount of species. What do you know about evolution? Just what your angry priest yell to you at your Sunday cult meetings?