How many users on these boards actually support "The Theory of Evolution"?

[Slimebeast]

MontanaHatchet said:

Slimebeast said:

akuma587 said:
The fact that bacteria have mitochondria and choloplasts (which if you look at them are actually little other bacteria that were "eaten" a long time ago and essentially became an organelle of the bacteria as time went on) is more than enough proof that they have evolved. And there are millions of other examples.

 

 Im not denying that bacteria have evolved (of course they have, but to what degree?). Im disputing/questioning the current evolution theory and the principle of the single origin hypothesis. Based on that principle, with such an early "split" into eukaryotes and prokaryotes in earth history, why did the prokaryotes get "stuck" in bacterial, extremely simple form, while eukaryotes just kept evolving into millions of species so different u only can fantasize about it? It doesnt make sense.

Okay, see? You keep changing the question around. It's kind of hard to have a lot of diversity if you only have one cell and reproduce asexually. Does that answer your question?

 

Im not dodging or anything like that. Perhaps Im clumsy in my presentation but thats all.

 I'd like to object to your claim when you say "it's kind of hard to have a lot of diversity" about bacteria, when people argue that "yeah, it was perfectly logical and likely that amino acids started getting linked together and eventually became all life forms we know of", and they did it step bby step - in the next step these amino acid strings formed self replicating machines and so on (as the first steps of how life started, the early "pre-life" that now is extinct, from the special conditions of a young earth).

Just take a look at the bacteria pool - that mass of potential to "become" stuff is vastly bigger than the self-replicating primitive machines that then became the first cells.


I mean, the possibility for 100s of billions of billions of bacteria to become any other "species" should be a lot more likely, during 500 million years, than for the "primordial soup" amino acids to become the first cell in the first place.

Life should have branched of from the prokaryotic tree so much more.