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ithis on 06 January 2012
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Wyrdness said:
Jumpin said:
Wyrdness said:
I'm not religious but Evolution although logical is still a theory and not an absolute fact so the's no real reason why they should accept it tbh.

You are describing a hunch theory, not a scientific theorem - a scientific theorem is an equation of scientific facts which has to be proven via the scienfific process. whereas a hunch theory is simply just a gut feeling (informed or uninformed) - two different things.

The theory of evolution (for example) does utilize the fact that creatures evolve, the fact of natural selection, the fact of sexual selection, the fact of genetic drift, the fact of maco and micro mutations, etc....


It's not an absolute fact though it's just a really good thoery, the argument against christians and other religions is that evolution proves them wrong yet the are still holes, if we evolved from apes supposidely why are they still present, where did the initial creatures that evolved come from (probably the most importent one), what triggers evolution, if conditions were to drastically change tomorrow would evolution begin it's long process again etc... When it comes down to it's just a really logical thoery like I said I'm not religious but the's no reason for them to fully accept it.

We disn't evolve FROM apes. We avolved in parralel, from a common ancestor probably many many years ago (2 million?) Apes are still here because the environment alowed them to, and they adapted and were able tu survive (the ones that are here today, many died out in the meantime).

Evolution does NOT pretend to explain how life appeared.

Evolution happens all the time. It doesn't stop. The effects of it are (more) visible when the environment changes since usually that requires favorises adaptation and phisical adaptation is as good as any (one other being behavioral adaptation). If the change you got is benefic you will have many offsprings and carry on the blodline (something like this).

- If conditions were to drastically change tomorow, many of the living things would die. the resilient would live, and then would adapt to the new conditions, both fisically and other.

Evolution does not mean that all the living things UPGRADE all the time. It means that the living things adapt to their environment as best as they can. Ancient fish in the American rivers have no problems surviving, they don't require any upgrades (well, they didn't require them untill the asian carp arrived that is). The apparent stopping of the evolution is due to the fact that they are close to optimally upgraded for what they do and where they do it, and all variations that appear are not more successfull than the base moddel, so they don't have may offsprings and don't influence the specie's genepool much (if at all) (again, something like this).