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Kasz216 on 10 September 2011
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chapset said:
Kasz216 said:
chapset said:
well simple organism are often a lot older then more complex organism so is it so hard to think they have reach the maximum of their evolution??? that they no longer need to evolve because they are so well adapted to their environment?? And what about the hundred of thousands of fossil that support evolution what about those?? where they put there by some sort of alien or god 6000 years ago when the earth was flat :P

You know... i believe in evolution, but you aren't helping the cause here...

this arguement is basically the posterchild arguement someone who doesn't believe in evolution would want to see...

because it's bascially a selfmade strawman that makes evolution look ridiculious.

 

1) Simple organisms still evolve. 

2) It wouldn't matter how much support there is for a theory if there is one thing that disproves it.  Truth isn't "Majority rules".  (These aren't proof agaisnt it though)

1) I mean some simple organims my mistake

2) evolution is not a law, as in you cannot predict the result of evolution by looking at past experience or data, finding one or several species that didn't evolve because they didn't need to doesn't disprove the fact that undread of thousands of species did evolve. to disprove evolution you would need to show that not a single organism did evolve trough history but that something else happenned


1) They all evolve though.

2)  Re-read the OP.  The thread is about evolution as the single source of life for all creatures on earth.  Aside from which, if you accepted the fact that some organisms didn't evolve, you would have to question evolution as a whole since morphologic evolution is based wholey on conjecture.  We've never recorded it happen and we only have fossils that suggest it has happened.  Fossil evidence and very similar birds with very few differences  Fossil evidence has been misread before, like many dinosaur breeds that never really existed. 

It's possible, though not very plausable that said fossil "proof" could of just been stitched together by the people studying it as a logical progression, like Dinosaur bones that were stichted together that were really from two/three differnet dinosaurs.  If there were living beings who weren't evolving it would very much call into question evolution.

At the very least, finding non evolving creatures on earth would completely throw up in the air what species did and didn't evovle.