The important point is that abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution. If God created a simple bacteria which went on to evolve into all of the species we see today it wouldn't change the theory of evolution one iota. To use another example, scientists don't have to explain the origin of...
It's not that astounding when you compare what humans do to what chimps do. We are great at jogging across grass savannas. Chimps and other apes are terrible at it. Those changes allowed us to move out of the forest and into the savanna where there was less competition. Also, as our hands...
The Australopithecines were transitional hominids and they had adaptations for both walking upright like we do and adaptations for knucklewalking like that seen in chimps and other apes. Do you think they were part of the experiment, one that spanned millions of years?
The environment does...
I think democracy is the best system because there is a bloodless revolution with each election. Dictatorships and authoritarian type governments tend to change through bloody revolutions, which is a drawback.
The chief drawback is that humans tend to like a single strong leader who makes the...
If we look at other mammal species who walk on their hindlimbs and forelimbs, are they illogically made? What about chimps who use their arms for grasping and walking? Illogical?
They're dead. The in-betweens were the great-great-great-great- . . . grandparents of the modern populations.
The authors only sequenced modern populations. They weren't surveying mtDNA from 50-200,000 years ago.
That's what happens when females do not beget females. Their mitochondrial...
That's exactly what you should see after a speciation event. Each lineage will start accumulating different mutations after a speciation event which produces two separate mtDNA populations. The "in-between" species would have been the ones from the past who were in-between the modern...
They looked exclusively at mtDNA, and only a fraction of the mitochondrial genome, which will be sensitive to lineage collapse. Although population genetics isn't my strong suit, I do think it is entirely possible for a largish continuous population to produce these observations without a...
The problem is that Etritonakin thinks everything is an automated system. Cloud production? Automated system. Lightning? Automated system. Planets moving about the Sun? Automated system. It becomes pretty meaningless when everything is an automated system.
Let me repeat:
So what are the DNA differences responsible for these physical differences, and why do you think random mutations could not produce them?
Epigenetic patterns don't appear to be inherited. I would fully agree that epigenetics plays an important role in development and phenotype...
How do you determine that there is something separate called the "mind" that is controlling the brain?
Reflexes are pretty easy to explain. They are hardwired reactions to strong stimuli. If enough pain neurons sense a lot of heat at one point in your body then neurons fire to retract the...
On the flip side of this whole discussion is how people can disbelieve in a theory with absolutely no knowledge of the facts or the theory of evolution itself.
Let's just dissect the above statement, shall we? You define evolution as change from one species into another species. You then say...