tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
Please, please, please, at least take the time to learn what biological evolution entails.
If you want to learn about it, simply ask.
Your statements show a vast ignorance of the subject.
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When will humans grow wings?
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If you want to learn about it, simply ask.
Your statements show a vast ignorance of the subject.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
I know many people who believe in evolution yet I know of none who believe like you describe here. I think it's just some straw man conjured up in the minds of creationists. Evolution deals exclusively with biology, not philosophy or ethics. Also, our understanding of life, and how it has evolved, has advanced in the 150 years since Darwin wrote The Origin of Species. That's how science works; it's about study and discovery, learning and understanding. Through it our knowledge grows.
Whilst religious fundamentalism promotes only ignorance and stagnancy.
But evolution isn't just about "chance". It makes people look like fools when they try to debate a subject they have no clear understanding of. Perhaps you should stop, kid.
As has been explained a billion times before; the theory of evolution and the concept of god are not mutually exclusive. Literal interpretations of ancient creation myths do not hold a monopoly on god. God isn't your hand puppet.
People accept what logic and evidence indicate. All else is willful ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.
Because evolution wasn't meant to answer those questions. Again, it only deals with biology.
shawn001
Well-Known Member
again Humans ARE still evolving.
FlyingTeaPot
Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
All these are not evolutionarily advantageous to survival of humans.
and if you want to see a winged man, you have to promise not to die for at least a billion years.
FlyingTeaPot
Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
Would you be interested to see man with not wings, but with lobster hands?
EVIDENCE OF RECENT EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTIONS - AnaiBendai's Blog - Blogster
EVIDENCE OF RECENT EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTIONS - AnaiBendai's Blog - Blogster
outhouse
Atheistically
Im calling BS to that link.
the one sure looks fabricated [teeth fish] and the one is a known species [monotuk or whatever]
outhouse
Atheistically
That link is trash bud
heres a tidbit on the fish someone stuffed babboon jaws in, I knew those were baboon teeth. [i study marine biology]
Identified in some versions of the [COLOR=#e0e060 !important][COLOR=#e0e060 !important]email[/COLOR][/COLOR] as a Devil Fish, the gruesome specimen in the preceding photographs doesnt really exist. Its a fine example of what is called gaff art the manufacture of sideshow artifacts or fake oddities out of the preserved body parts of real animals using taxidermy and prop-building techniques. It was first sighted in an eBay auction dated May 2006, where it was described as a mummified sea monster corpse. The winning bidder paid $637.
It was created by Florida artist Juan Cabana, who was also responsible for the creepy merman or mermaid carcass allegedly found washed up on beaches from South Africa to south Florida.
It was created by Florida artist Juan Cabana, who was also responsible for the creepy merman or mermaid carcass allegedly found washed up on beaches from South Africa to south Florida.
FlyingTeaPot
Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
Oh okay. I didnt know. guess googling " man evolution mutant" is not a very way of finding out these things. Thanks!
outhouse
Atheistically
No problem, your welcome brother.
I was looking at the pics going OK we have birth defected pigs and what the ^&^%$ THOSE are baboon teeth someone put in a fish LOL
and that other one was busted a while ago.
Alceste
Vagabond
nmartin, if humans are the "final destination" of evolution, why are there still millions of other species on earth that have been evolving exactly as long as we have? Are they also fully cooked, or are they still evolving? If they're not evolving still, how do you know humans are superior? If they are still evolving, do you expect them all to turn into humans? Or will they evolve forever, never becoming perfected? Or do you expect them all to die, now that humans have been perfected?
I don't think you've thought this through, bud. If you wouldn't mind me recommending a book, the Greatest Show on Earth would probably help you enormously in the development if this hypothesis of yours.
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nnmartin
Well-Known Member
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins.
thanks for the advice but that's a little like giving an atheist a Bible and telling him it's proof of God.
To me Dawkins is just a Darwin groupie extraordinnairre.
He really is a buffoon as I've said before, and his writing style is that of a pompous old twit trying to be amusing.
Unfortunately Dawkins just churns out evolution, evolution, evolution.
No philosophical insight whatsoever and when the going gets tough he just comes out with tame mathematical escape clauses.
I have actually read that book some time ago - it was an almighty yawn.
Looncall
Well-Known Member
For the sake of curiosity, just how long ago did you read it?
jarofthoughts
Empirical Curmudgeon
The book is not, in and of itself, evidence of anything.
Rather it explains the evidence avaliable to us, and which you can then check out for yourself at your leisure.
And some find it to -be- amusing.
No accounting for taste I guess, but that impacts on the validity of what he writes not at all.
Not sure what you expect from an evolutionary biologist...
This is news to me.
Could you provide some examples please?
I found it to be well written and compelling, but again, no accounting for taste.
The facts he explains, however, are backed by mountains of scientific evidence.
What are your claims backed by? :sarcastic
nnmartin
Well-Known Member
The book is probably ok if you believe Evolution to be the complete package, nice and gift wrapped and end of story. But how about some answers?
yes, we all know it's random gene mutation, adaptation, natural selection - heard it all before and it doesn't say anything new.
How about telling us why genes or atoms feel the compulsion to mutate when the organism is threatened for example? - that would be quite interesting.
How does a virus know it needs to protect itself?
Why does DNA even bother copying itself in the first place?
'They just do' is hardly an answer - I could even write a book myself using that kind of technique!
Dawkins is a big old yawn and I'm sure he knows it himself - he has however discovered the ability to churn out armchair science books for the masses and no doubt got rich off the proceeds - credit to him for that I guess.
yes, we all know it's random gene mutation, adaptation, natural selection - heard it all before and it doesn't say anything new.
How about telling us why genes or atoms feel the compulsion to mutate when the organism is threatened for example? - that would be quite interesting.
How does a virus know it needs to protect itself?
Why does DNA even bother copying itself in the first place?
'They just do' is hardly an answer - I could even write a book myself using that kind of technique!
Dawkins is a big old yawn and I'm sure he knows it himself - he has however discovered the ability to churn out armchair science books for the masses and no doubt got rich off the proceeds - credit to him for that I guess.
nnmartin
Well-Known Member
Perhaps about 2 years ago , can't really remember as it didn't rank too highly in my 'best books of all time Hall of Fame'.
