If evolution is true why has man never evolved? I collect alot of old paintings and ornaments now when you look at these some of which are 1000s of years old, man still looks exactly the same as he did then as today, so when exactly are humans meant to evolve? If you go to your local art gallery or history museum and compare how people looked 1000s of years ago to today, we have not changed at all in physical appearance. There is no change. There clearly is no evolution. So to the evolutionists on this forum when are humans meant to evolve?
A few things:
- a few thousand years isn't long enough to really see significant changes. If you look back over a few hundred thousand years, you do see major change. Over the time frame you're talking about, there are changes, but they're minor - while average values for various features have changed, they've done so within their general normal range: for instance, there hasn't been much change in the extreme ends of "tallest" and "shortest", but as was pointed out earlier, average height has gone up over time.
- species tend to be stable when their environments are stable... and this makes sense: the more well-adapted a species is, the less likely it is that new mutations will be beneficial. Also, species tend to be more stable when they have large populations: it takes much longer for a benficial mutation to "work its way through" into the overall population.
If you were to take a small group of people (like a few hundred or maybe a few thousand), isolate them from the rest of humanity, radically change their environment and leave them that way, they'd change very quickly... to the extent that within a hundred generations or less, they'd have changed so much that they could no longer be considered the same species.
Of course, we don't do these sorts of experiments for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that it would be horribly unethical (and IMO immoral) to subject a group of people to this treatment.
