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Vyse_Blue_Rogue said:
JWeinCom said:

Right.  The process isn't random and the mutations are.

It doesn't seem unlikely at all, at least to me.  It's just a problem of scales.  Humans live about 100 years at best.  Our scale of time is years.  All of recorded history is a sliver of time on earth that is beyond insignificant. 

When you can thing of time on a grander scale, it's not really hard to believe that things could change that much.  Assuming you accept that genes change over time, and really try to imagine billions of years, it doesn't only seem likely but inevitable.

I just can't see how, under any period of time, and any circumstances, that bacteria could eventuallt transform into a human

Part of the problem with humans is we simply cannot fathom time on the scales we're talking about here.  1000 years is an absurd amt of time to us, but this is millions and millions of years we're talking about here.  Sort of like the Universe and the number scale w/ regards to the amount of galaxies/planets etc... I mean, can you imagine a billion trillion?  I can't...we have no frame of reference.