Topic: The Basic Stupidity of the Idea of Evolution - page 4. (Read 3015 times)
The Earth is so old that there could have been different worlds before the one we know. Our history reaches only a couple thousand years back and dates like 6000 BC (ancient Egypt) seem to be difficult to comprehend. An analysis of some of the oldest minerals dated them at almost 4 billion years, so there could be hundreds of evolutions in Earth's life. Civilisations were created, fell and turned to dust and from the dust came new animals that took thousands of years to evolve. Who knows, maybe our ancestors left Earth a million years ago and are now living in another galaxy. That "god" you are talking about could be an alien being that created us long ago and that "miracle" just a scientific experiment.
Just because you consider both a single organism maturing, and a whole species changing as "miraculous", doesn't mean they are the same thing. That's why evolutionary scientists have made a different word for the latter. It's just semantics, whether you believe in it or not.
Does your main argument against evolution consist of claiming that a single organism maturing is exactly the same as a group of organisms changing over generations (due to mutations and environmental changes)? If so then you need to first understand the concept of evolution before saying it's wrong.
Does your main argument against evolution consist of claiming that a single organism maturing is exactly the same as a group of organisms changing over generations (due to mutations and environmental changes)? If so then you need to first understand the concept of evolution before saying it's wrong.
Absolutely no reason to call it evolution. There is this gigantic, miraculous change in some material. The material was rather inert before. Suddenly there is a change that produces a human being. The human being is far greater than the combined sum of its parts. This is miracle. There is so little to it that might be considered evolution, that you might as well say that there is no evolution at all.
I think you don't understand evolution, what you described is not evolution - rather it is the change of a single organism throughout its life, based on the information present in its DNA (and environmental factors). While its DNA may have mutated slightly over its life, it has not evolved in the accepted sense of the word.
However, small mutations in the DNA could drastically change the species/type of organism over multiple generations. Environmental changes could accelerate this process. This is what people mean when they talk about evolution.
However, small mutations in the DNA could drastically change the species/type of organism over multiple generations. Environmental changes could accelerate this process. This is what people mean when they talk about evolution.
The Basic Stupidity of the Idea of Evolution
I was prompted to write this topic by all the stupid, silly evolution posts written in the "Scientific proof that God exists?" thread.
Don't take me wrong here. I am not picking on any person's thinking ability. All of us have blind spots in our thinking. All of us miss things. None of us retains memory of everything we have seen and known, with absolute, recall perfection. So, without further rhetoric, let me get right into it.
Pick a person, any person, anywhere in the world. For our purposes, let's focus on a guy named Pete, who lives in Chicago.
It is Pete's birthday today. Pete is 30-years-old today. Pete was born on February 22, 1985. His parents and many other relatives are still alive, and will attest to his birth and birthday if necessary. His birth certificate bears the signature of a doctor, and has a valid date-stamp on it. PETE REALLY IS 30-YEARS-OLD TODAY.
Did Pete exist on February 22, 1984? Did any portion of Pete exist then? Did the pattern for Pete exist then? No! None of the stuff of Pete existed on February 22, 1984. If any of the things that are part of Pete now, existed back then, they had absolutely nothing to do with Pete then. Pete did not exist then, at all.
Evolution did not take hundreds of thousands or millions of years. In the case of Pete, from February 22, 1985, to February 22, 2015, it has taken only 30 years, plus an additional approximately 9 months of his gestation period.
So what is it that might take the hundreds of thousands or millions of years? It might take scientists that long to figure out how the human body works, especially if they keep on focusing on stupid things like evolution.
What do you think?
I was prompted to write this topic by all the stupid, silly evolution posts written in the "Scientific proof that God exists?" thread.
Don't take me wrong here. I am not picking on any person's thinking ability. All of us have blind spots in our thinking. All of us miss things. None of us retains memory of everything we have seen and known, with absolute, recall perfection. So, without further rhetoric, let me get right into it.
Pick a person, any person, anywhere in the world. For our purposes, let's focus on a guy named Pete, who lives in Chicago.
It is Pete's birthday today. Pete is 30-years-old today. Pete was born on February 22, 1985. His parents and many other relatives are still alive, and will attest to his birth and birthday if necessary. His birth certificate bears the signature of a doctor, and has a valid date-stamp on it. PETE REALLY IS 30-YEARS-OLD TODAY.
Did Pete exist on February 22, 1984? Did any portion of Pete exist then? Did the pattern for Pete exist then? No! None of the stuff of Pete existed on February 22, 1984. If any of the things that are part of Pete now, existed back then, they had absolutely nothing to do with Pete then. Pete did not exist then, at all.
Evolution did not take hundreds of thousands or millions of years. In the case of Pete, from February 22, 1985, to February 22, 2015, it has taken only 30 years, plus an additional approximately 9 months of his gestation period.
So what is it that might take the hundreds of thousands or millions of years? It might take scientists that long to figure out how the human body works, especially if they keep on focusing on stupid things like evolution.
What do you think?
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