| burgerstein said:
I know it's a little old, but slimebeast's argument's flaw was primarily based on that reasoning error. It was a sophisticated version of, "If people are evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" As Morbo would say, "Evolution does not work that way!!!" Evolution is not linear, nor does it have a purpose. Survival of the fittest is not a goal, it's a result. When you come to understand evolution not in terms of goals or advancements, but instead in terms of results and causes, that's when you actually understand evolution. Evolution doesn't have a goal, it has a result. As someone said earlier, Microevolution and Macroevolution are just buzz words. Species are just concepts, they aren't quantitive or measurable traits, just some things we agreed on to make easier to know wich animals we're talking about. Evolution is evolution, no matter the scale. Edit: Canada, Evolution. |
That's what we need to be telling people more often. Most assume that we evolved from chimpanzees, but we didn't. They are just the closest species to us. The classes in the US and everywhere need to address that issue with more detail!
