An evolution education thread. Or how we know evolution is a fact.

[Aletheia Athanatos]

A human has never been a bird.

You appear to be taking your understanding of what the word "evolution" means from superhero films.

In the context of biological evolution, individual do not evolve.

Evolution is a property of groups of interbreeding individuals, and happens over periods of multiple generations.

Furthermore, neither I nor any reputable scientist is claiming that avian species lie in the direct ancestral inheritance of homo sapiens. (If you're looking for a common ancestor, Amniotes split into Synapsida and Diapsida more than 300 million years ago).

By all means object to evolution. That's your right.

But wouldn't it be better to object to the actual version of evolution people are claiming, rather than some made-up straw-man version?

 

[Aletheia Athanatos]

I argue against science.

You do not need to agree with the theories generated according to the scientific method, in order to learn what those theories are and are not. You do not even need to practice the scientific method nor approve of it.

And, if you are going to argue against something, not only is it polite to first make sure you understand correctly what it is that you are arguing against - it also increases the chance that people will listen to you.

 

[rational experiences]

You appear to be taking your understanding of what the word "evolution" means from superhero films.

In the context of biological evolution, individual do not evolve.

Evolution is a property of groups of interbreeding individuals, and happens over periods of multiple generations.

Furthermore, neither I nor any reputable scientist is claiming that avian species lie in the direct ancestral inheritance of homo sapiens. (If you're looking for a common ancestor, Amniotes split into Synapsida and Diapsida more than 300 million years ago).

By all means object to evolution. That's your right.

But wouldn't it be better to object to the actual version of evolution people are claiming, rather than some made-up straw-man version?

When dinosaurs died and ice age instant earth owned a huge destructive atmospheric change.

Which is not evolution was the bible preaching don't thesis dead things