I understand how jellyfish might have evolved from plankton and how flying squirrels might have evolved from squirrels.
It's just that I don't get the bigger picture, like plankton --> fish --> reptile --> mammal.
I know its hard to imagine but the earth has existed for such a long time, it makes sense that such variety would form. Like if it took thousands of years for flying squirrels (I'm probably very off there but still) imagine what millions of years can do. Just think if one cell becomes 2, then 3 then four then over billions of life cycles it can form billions of celled organisms. My answer is probably sucky, so I would recommend maybe a book on the subject? Sorry to not be able to further help
Evolution is real. Long ago beavers had fluffy tails, but the places they lived got flooded and the predators were starting to get bountiful and the beavers evolved (in a couple million years) to the flat tail. If millions of animals did that, humans did too.
You cannot believe in the Christian God and evolution, Christians are not allowed to pick and choose what the bible tell us and still call themselves Christians. For the record, I believe everything the bible tells me. Downvote away.
Oh look another ignorant Christian, a true Christian accepts anybody's belief even if it coexists with their own Christianity. You can believe the bible all you want, but don't tell people what they can and can not believe in. You can believe in Christianity AND Evolution at the same time if you want, it's your choice.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, I've getting it wrong all the waaaay?
Lucky me I've seen this on time.
Evolution out. GOOD Christianity on.
Shit. For a moment I thought I was a person with the ability to believe in what I wanted to believe, but finally you've come here, to show me the right path.
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How about we all just leave each other alone and be the tolerant HUMANS we all SHOULD BE!
Just believe in whatever you want, don't let some ignorant bastard tell you what's right or not. It's a choice, if you believe in God or Evolution or something else, most people don't need state their oblivious comments about it.
Whatever, I'm from Spain, and here everyone believes in evolution, atheist and religious people. (The nuns in my school taught us evolution and to not take the Bible literally)
So... It's really such an extended opinion that evolution is not proven?
I'm genuinely curious.
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It is, to many. I don't understand why, though; I've heard and read through the bible, though, and as a Catholic I fail to see the conflict between the two. I think it's the implied idea that there is, or should be, a problem with the two coexisting.
Worse yet, I think it's just a continuation between the ideological battle between atheism and creationists; it's just based on an angry difference in opinion, rather than any scientific or theological issue.
I know, right?
I haven't read the bible or Charles Darwin's book...
I believe that if god gives you strength, find strength in god.
If science keeps you steady, be steady with science.
Or be strong, steady and flexible, and keep an open mind.
WHICH TYPE OF EVOLUTION?! There are six types of evolution, with only micro-evolution being observable, testable, repeatable, predictable science. Micro-evolution, or 'variation within the kind' is accepted as true by everyone, even Creationists like myself. I have not read the article in the photo, so I cannot comment further than that.
*thatoneguy* you don't get it... evolution is the progression of characteristics that have developed based upon mutations that have happened within the lifetimes of living species, these characteristics still surviving based upon their adaptability to the ever-changing environment that they exist in.
We weren't monkeys.
We weren't fish.
What we were doesn't exist anymore. The similarities and genetic traits we share with other living things are a result of our shared heritage, the changes, differences, and split paths between us being the result of differing mutations that eventually led to the species that exist today. Anyone feel free to correct me on this, but if I've said this right, this is what evolution is, and that whole monkey crap doesn't even apply.
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btw, I am a proud, strong-believing Catholic, and would like this to be a show of the fact that much of the perceptions as to how we are are false. I don't want to stand on a podium here, but it grates on my nerves when people say we're ignorant.
I am a fellow catholic and I confrim his statement. We know that god (we believe that god) made us but we also know(well some of us believe) that he put things there for us to find and discover and grow! Aka evolution.
IF evolution was right, where are the fossils of our "prototypes" if you will? There would be evidence of MILLIONS of different trial and errors, but there is not.
Man, you still don't get it. But no one pays me for teaching, and i don't really have the time or the aim to explain it.
So, yes sweetie, you're absolutely right. Evolution is a conspiracy. Illuminati shit, you know.
Legitimately not trying to argue. I'm legitimately curious. Where are those fossils? Have we found them? Last I heard, the best matches found were bits of different animals found over a mile away from each other. I hardly consider that overwhelming. But maybe I just don't have the facts? Darwin himself said that there should be innumerable transition stage fossils. Have we actually found any?
Tectonic plates, that's why they're separated from each other.
We've found the fossils, but the differences between them is really small, you can only see them by comparing different ones from incredibly long separated ages.
And, think about the enormous area of the Earth, the oceans have moved, the Earth itself has changed, continents have crossed the oceans, breaking themselves in the process. Volcanoes, storms, floods, fires, natural disasters in general, all of this makes complicated looking for corpses from 225 million years. The bones, when not completely disappeared, are broken, twisted or simply unrecognisable. Scientifics normally don't just jump into a perfectly conserved t-rex, well tagged and all that. They may find a tiny little part of a forearm, teeth or a part of the tail.
We are talking about a time long long lost. And not only dinossaurs, but microorganisms, fishes (sort of, i guess) reptiles, plants, whole ecosystems. Which remains were too fragile to survive time.
We're evolving right now, everything is evolving, but we aren't able to appreciate it.
Man, I'm kind of passionate with this topic, even If I have said that I wouldn't spend my time on it >.<
Yes, he was. His theory of evolution has already been disproven. We didn't evolve from monkeys. We just have a common ancestor, that's all. He was still an admirable man, because he made a big leap from "God made us from clay" to "we evolved from monkeys", but today's scientists claim that it's not entirely correct.
have you even READ what Darwin wrote? because he wrote about common ancestor, and monkeys being related to us, it's the bible fans that took it as 'we came from monkeys', simplified it as usual. what scientists? what's not correct? do you do any research before you write something?
Uhh, yes? Firstly there's my teacher who has a doctorate from biology and says that Darwin's theories, however revolutionary at the time, were already beaten. Nobody cared about the people who did it because it wasn't such a leap, just more like updating and modernizing. Then there's the fuckload of scientific websites on the internet, which, even though they may not be a reliable source, give lots of information to at least consider. I haven't read The Origin of Species, but I'm not completely clueless of what I'm talking about. Darwin actually considered both options. I simplified it so you guys would understand, but it seems that all the effort didn't serve my purpose at all.
Darwin's theorys have been disproven people, he thought that eyes evolved from freckles for goodness sake! He may have been the first to write a book about evolution, but all his ideas can safely be called silly when seen from a modern viewpoint. It's like how we give the greeks a lot of credit for modern thinking, but their thoughts were silly as well. For example, they thought the sun was a giant flaming rock. While we can still argue how we got here, Darwin would no longer be allowed to comment because he has been so thoroughly disproven even if he was the one who started the argument in the first place. That's what ewqua was trying to say.
Don't be an ignorant jerk about it, at least Darwin was smart enough to even think about evolution, yes, he work was debunked but give him some damn credit for trying.
God fucking damnit, I have specifically written that I admire Darwin for what he's done and I'm sure that so does the guest who agrees with me (thank you, by the way). As they say, his thoughts count, but modern science wouldn't allow him to comment anymore because he's been disproven in many things. It's the people who worship him like a god and can't admit he was already outsmarted who're the ignorant jerks here! His thoughts have been revolutionary but that was like the 19th century! A lot has changed since then!
It's just that I don't get the bigger picture, like plankton --> fish --> reptile --> mammal.
Guys, that's not the argument here. You can believe in both God and evolution.
Lucky me I've seen this on time.
Evolution out. GOOD Christianity on.
Shit. For a moment I thought I was a person with the ability to believe in what I wanted to believe, but finally you've come here, to show me the right path.
So... It's really such an extended opinion that evolution is not proven?
I'm genuinely curious.
Worse yet, I think it's just a continuation between the ideological battle between atheism and creationists; it's just based on an angry difference in opinion, rather than any scientific or theological issue.
Thank you :)
I haven't read the bible or Charles Darwin's book...
I believe that if god gives you strength, find strength in god.
If science keeps you steady, be steady with science.
Or be strong, steady and flexible, and keep an open mind.
We weren't monkeys.
We weren't fish.
What we were doesn't exist anymore. The similarities and genetic traits we share with other living things are a result of our shared heritage, the changes, differences, and split paths between us being the result of differing mutations that eventually led to the species that exist today. Anyone feel free to correct me on this, but if I've said this right, this is what evolution is, and that whole monkey crap doesn't even apply.
So, yes sweetie, you're absolutely right. Evolution is a conspiracy. Illuminati shit, you know.
We've found the fossils, but the differences between them is really small, you can only see them by comparing different ones from incredibly long separated ages.
And, think about the enormous area of the Earth, the oceans have moved, the Earth itself has changed, continents have crossed the oceans, breaking themselves in the process. Volcanoes, storms, floods, fires, natural disasters in general, all of this makes complicated looking for corpses from 225 million years. The bones, when not completely disappeared, are broken, twisted or simply unrecognisable. Scientifics normally don't just jump into a perfectly conserved t-rex, well tagged and all that. They may find a tiny little part of a forearm, teeth or a part of the tail.
We're evolving right now, everything is evolving, but we aren't able to appreciate it.
Man, I'm kind of passionate with this topic, even If I have said that I wouldn't spend my time on it >.<