Baroque_Dude said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Baroque_Dude said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Evolution has been PROVEN on the genetic scale. We can tell which chromosomes from chimpanzees got stuck together and moved around into what exact order in humans. We predicted it, tested it, and proved it. |
Scientists say that the human genoma map is a 34% identical with the mice's map, but I don't feel like a 34% mouse. 
I know, I know that the chromosomic issue is far more complex but that was a way of speaking. I mean that, what if chimpanzees are a 95% identical to humans? If we have a 34% percentage with mice and we are soooo different, then I think is more natural to have a greater similarity with more similar animals like chimpanzees are.
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I'm not talking about having things in common with chimpanzees. I'm talking about how chimpanzees have more chromosomes than humans. The argument against evolution was that as things evolve they can ONLY become more complex by creating more chromosomes, and not lose any pairs of chromosomes. So it was hypothesized that during that change some of the chromosomes stuck together, so one human chromosome should have 2 centers, like how if 2 eggs get cooked together it will look like 1 big egg with 2 yolks.
They mapped out all our chromosomes and discovered exactly which 2 chimp chromosomes got stuck together, and which one it is in the human, and where it moved to. These results proved the hypothesis correct, and debunked that particular anti-evolution argument. Now the only argument left is "Satan went back in time and played with our DNA to trick us into believing that things adapt over time."
I really don't see why the idea that things adapt to their surroundings is so evil. Everything does it. When it's one person adapting, we call it common sense, and when it's a species adapting over a long period of time, we call it evolution.
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I read your explanation, although I think that that doesn't necessarily support evolution and we could go bla and bla and bla and never end, which I don't want.
And, about your last sentences, I believe that organisms adapt (we have very clear and recent examples), but I don't believe that they evolve from one kind into another (yes, I know that some people say that this is contradictory), nor that everything that is on Earth evolved from a single form of life.
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Just out of curiousity, where do you think new life repeatadly comes from? There has been 5 mass extinction events, each one leading to the deaths of over 50% of the species on the planet, and many more minor extinction events that each lead to the deaths of less than 50% of the species on earth (though each time a very large and significant %), and then there is also the normal background rate of extinction that normal species are being wiped out by at a constant rate. 99% of all species that have existed are now extinct. If life can't evolve into new forms of life, do you think that some intelligence is just coming to earth every few million years to restock the biosphere?
