Do you believe in evolution ?

[TheLegendOfMart]

I'm not convinced in the evolution theory but I'm not a creationist nutter either.

people say humans getting taller etc is a sign of evolution being true but it could just be nutrition and better health.

What do you think evolution is?

If taller people are the ones that eat better and have better health then the genes of the taller person will be more than likely passed on than short fatter people.

How do you think all the crazy looking bugs and animals came about?

A frog that gets eaten by snakes and other predators, like other orgnanisms gene mutations might produce a frog that has flourescent or bright coloured markings and those are the frogs that get eaten less because they look different and may dissuade predators from eating them, so those are the ones that pass on their genes, over the hundreds and thousands of years a certain species of frog evolved from that first frog.

Same with bears, white polar bears didn't just magic into existence, they started with the same ancestors as brown and black bears, but mutations occurred which gave them lighter fur thus they were more suited to live and hunt in arctic conditions because animals could see black and brown bears coming they died out and the genes with lighter fur got passed on.

I can't say whether we were created or not but you cant refute evolution.

 

[Rroff]

Evolution doesn't disprove a 'god' or some underlying intelligence like most evolutionists seem to think.

I'm probably in the intelligent design camp but I don't pretend to know and get all militant about it like the very worst religious nutters and athiests do.

Best approach to it IMO.

 

[Zethor]

The Theory of Evolution is probably the most solid theory that resulted from the scientific method. It is more accurate than the Atomic Theory in chemistry or Relativity in physics, it has no exceptions, no weaknesses.

It is one of the greatest achievements of mankind, we should stand in awe of it and of the profound stupidity shown by those who deny it.

 

[tbyeah]

We are apes, chimps are cousins, gorillas more distant cousins, orangutans still more distant cousins...

We are as above just one of the great ape species.

Evolution doesn't disprove a 'god' or some underlying intelligence like most evolutionists seem to think.

I'm probably in the intelligent design camp but I don't pretend to know and get all militant about it like the very worst religious nutters and athiests do.

Never met someone that claims evolution disproves a god.

 

[hyster]

Evolution doesn't disprove a 'god' or some underlying intelligence like most evolutionists seem to think.

I'm probably in the intelligent design camp but I don't pretend to know and get all militant about it like the very worst religious nutters and athiests do.

Science can't disprove god in the same way it cant disprove unicorns and fairies at the bottom of the garden, I suspend my credulity in all of these until I see evidence.

Intelligent design really is just nonsense, evolution is widely accepted as fact, the idea may get refined further but it's fact.

Evolution has nothing to say about the possibility of a god.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Abort thread!

 

[AndrewNR]

I'm telling you guys, we evolved from plants.

You sure mate? I think it was the dinosaurs.

God threw a stone at Earth to wipe them out as he thought they were getting too big for their own good. Just the little chicken-like dinosaurs survived (eating plants) and we evolved from them.

Definitely dinosaurs.

 

[MikeTheNative]

The good thing about facts is that they are true whether you choose to believe in them or not.

 

[Akagi]

Facts are often disproven and replaced with new ones.
Its more likely that current theories are wrong that right.

 

[Ryan-3]

No, you're all wrong. We simply levelled up, but the problem being is we've all missed our chance to get to the next level. Only those part of Heaven's gate managed it. Now they're all Superhuman Space Warriors, terrorising a parallel universe earth.

 

[SlyReaper]

Thing about evolution is it's possible to see it happening. Like the peppered moths and Darwin's finches. Creationists like to dismiss those examples as being "micro"-evolution as if that's somehow a different thing than regular evolution.

Another example you can observe for yourself are ring species. They show evolution happening over distance instead of time, showing a gradual change of a species over distance, to a form that can no longer be considered the same species.

The science is solid, the reasoning is sound. There's mountains of fossil evidence, and an abundance of transitional forms known. There's really no debate any more.

 

[oldbag]

Otherwise we'd be still sitting in our caves with our clubs and having to catch our food every day.

 

[SlyReaper]

Otherwise we'd be still sitting in our caves with our clubs and having to catch our food every day.

No, without evolution, we'd never have reached that level. We'd all be self-replicating molecules, not even single celled organisms.

 

[oldbag]

Heh when you die you reach first prestige.

 

[Slam62]

God included evolution in the plan

 

[Wazz-1]

Yes






























COZ IT TRUE

 

[Jono8]

If you just watch how apes act (expressions, mannerism's, movements e.t.c), it is pretty clear that we are related.

 

[spoffle]

Thank You! People dont seem to grasp this do they...

What most people seem to not understand too is that their trust in science is based on faith that the people carrying out the work are doing it correctly.

I'm not saying they aren't, just that it IS another form of faith as the vast majority of people cannot verify the scientific things they preach about, but take it on good faith that it is true.

 

[spoffle]

Thing about evolution is it's possible to see it happening. Like the peppered moths and Darwin's finches. Creationists like to dismiss those examples as being "micro"-evolution as if that's somehow a different thing than regular evolution.

There actually is a difference, and it's an important one. The problem is a lot of proponents of evolution have barely any idea of what they're talking about as you have demonstrated.

 

[spoffle]

If you just watch how apes act (expressions, mannerism's, movements e.t.c), it is pretty clear that we are related.

What do the letters e.t.c stand for?