(See, I have a sense of humor too!)
50 million? I figured that something so simple as a neck lengthening could happen in a few hundred years. Guess my estimates are a bit off XD.
Lamkarkianism? You mean like how the ancestors of birds flapped their arms and jumped off cliffs until they were finally able to fly? I thought that theory was discredited?
EVERYTHING is about sexual selection. If a trait isn't considered to be "sexy," those with that trait won't get mates, and therefore won't pass the gene, no matter how beneficial it is. Why do you think humans are so stupid? Stupidity is sexually attractive to most, thus it lives on
Biology class taught me that mutations were very rare
Bleh, if a mutation is guaranteed to occur when a cell divides, then why is evolution so slow? If mutations can occur so rapidly, then would it theoretically be possible, if all the mutations hit just right, to evolve an entirely new species in one generation (perhaps this is where Asperger's Syndrome comes from?)?
Neutral mutations are the ones that don't do anything, right? So it's still unlikely that a change will take place... it would have taken a while. Especially with all the signifigant climate changes (most people seem to agree that earth was highly volcanic and was covered in a primordial soup. Obviously, something changed along the way, how did life adapt to this?), like the sun changing, the earth's magnetic field diminishing (or is it increasing? I forget...), the world constantly going through weird temperature changes, etc... if I'm not mistaken, prokaryotes (or any single celled creatures for that matter) are not very adaptable... D=
We live in a universe that constantly oscillates between a visible universal body and a infinitely dense and hot Infinitesimally small primordial Atom, surely you don't believe for one moment that this complex cosmos evolved in the 14 billion years that this universal body has experienced since it was blasted out of the Great and seemingly bottomless abyss? Believe you me, 14 billion years is but the blink of an eye relative to the eternity that the cosmos has been in existence.
When this universal body is once more condensed into the infinitely dense, infinitely hot, Infinitesimally small primordial atom from which it originated, and the earth has again become formless and void, there it will remain, absorbing the expended energy of others cosmic cells until the day it will burst forth and be resurrected to continue in its eternal evolution or growth.
The nights and days of Brahma are called Manvantara or the cycle of manifestation, ‘The Great Day,’ which is a period of universal activity, that is preceded, and also followed by ‘Pralaya,’ a dark period, which to our finite minds seems as an eternity. ‘Manvantara,’ is a creative day as seen in the six days of creation in Genesis, ‘Pralaya,’ is the evening that precedes the next creative day. The 6 days of creation as revealed in Genesis, are the 6 generations of this universe which evolved from lesser heavenly bodies in which plants, fish, insects and birds etc evolved.
Origen, who was well versed in the writings of Enoch, was a Christian writer and teacher who lived between the years of 185 and 254 AD. Among his many works is the Hexapla, which is his interpretation of the Old Testament texts. Origen holds to a series of worlds following one upon the other,-- each world rising a step higher than the previous world, so that every later world brings to ripeness the seeds that were imbedded in the former, and itself then prepares the seed for the universe that will follow it.
Universe after universe is like an interminable succession of wheels forever coming into view, forever rolling onwards, disappearing and reappearing; forever passing from being to non being, and again from non being to being. In short, the constant revolving of the wheel of life in one eternal cycle, according to fixed and immutable laws, is perhaps after all the sum and substance of the philosophy of Buddhism. And this eternal wheel has so to speak, six spokes representing six forms of existence.” ---- Mon. Williams, Buddhism, pp. 229, 122.
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