if a pleasiaur was found in lake champlain today would that have big impact on theory of evolution? would alot of people distrust it
2007-11-30 07:31:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
To properly debate something as controversial as evolution, you must first learn to spell.
2007-11-30 07:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Scientists collect evidence and put it in a meaningful framework. If someone found a dinosaur in Lake Champlain, the issue would not be evolution, but the abilities and intelligence of the people near the lake.
All such a discovery would mean is that the dinosaur in the lake adapted well and successfully reproduced, thereby strengthening the argument.
2007-11-30 08:00:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As to whether anything --- or everything ---- will ever prove evolution is right or wrong, the answer is nothing will EVER be enough to prove it one way or another, and that is why it persists after a hundred yrs, when even Darwin was not certain he was right or wrong. But for me, the fact that it took the 19th Century to find out about it, after some 10-15 thousand yrs in which no one was crazy enough to believe such a thing------that fishes turned into people-----means that it's a crazy idea, and you have to be crazy to believe it.
2007-11-30 08:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You misunderstand the word theory ! In science , the word theory is like our word fact. Evolution is not a guess. It is a fact.
An example : The theory the sun comes up every day. It's not proven that the sun will come up every day. Maybe some day it will not. Yet to you and me it is a fact. so it is with evolution.
2007-11-30 07:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by old-bald-one 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am going to put aside my personal thoughts on the validity or lack thereof of evolution in order to discuss the question at hand.
No, the finding of a living dinosaur or other "crypto-critters" would not disprove evolution. It would throw some doubt on the currently viewed form of evolution, but wouldn't disprove the system itself.
The theory of evolution would just do another of its frequent changes to survive the tide of discrepancies against it.
There have already been other creatures that were supposed to have been dead for millions of years that have been found, even in the past century.
2007-11-30 07:34:43 · answer #5 · answered by Yun 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why would it impact eVolution? So your water dwelling dinosaur managed to survive for millions of years after we thought it was extinct? Good for him! That just means that he was well adapted to the environment, not that there's anything wrong with the theory of evolution.
BTW, Natural Selection, the basis for most of what we think of as the Theory of Evolution, states that nature selects for reproductive success. So, if Champ is hanging around, that means that he is successful at reproducing. Seems more like it would support the theory of evolution rather than demonstrate a flaw.
2007-11-30 07:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by ima_super_geek 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No, evolution would be fine. Just because you found a fossil in a place you didn't expect it, doesn't mean it didn't evolve.
What diosuars lived where and when is still something they are working on. BUT it doesn't affect evolution one bit.
2007-11-30 07:38:09 · answer #7 · answered by von_meat_helmet 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well at least you called it the theory of evolution... so many blind followers of that tend to incorrectly drop the theory part off... People might never be able to admit that it is proved wrong... But it will never, never be proved right!
2007-11-30 07:37:11 · answer #8 · answered by j b 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Do you think you could put in english. I don't speak text messaging. I would be glad to help once you translate.
2007-11-30 07:45:03 · answer #9 · answered by datalj12 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
NO champ doesn't have alot to do with evolutioin does he?
2007-11-30 07:34:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋