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originally posted by: wisvol
No sane person would ignore the evolution of an individual, a group, a species, a phylum, a theory, or anything else : everything constantly changes and evolves in various ways, and none of it shows speciation to me so far.
originally posted by: TerryDon79
a reply to: wisvol
There is something called evidence that science uses to come up with the answers. Science finds these evidences and uses all of them to come up with an answer that fits all the evidence.
Science is never 100% as there could be something out there that might prove that evolution is false.
Sciences best theory that uses all of the evidence is a universal beginning (your primordial soup). Until a better answer (that fits all the evidence) can be found, that will be sciences best explanation.
How then, do you explain the fact that we share a large portion of our genome with fish?
originally posted by: Elementalist
originally posted by: TerryDon79
a reply to: wisvol
There is something called evidence that science uses to come up with the answers. Science finds these evidences and uses all of them to come up with an answer that fits all the evidence.
Science is never 100% as there could be something out there that might prove that evolution is false.
Sciences best theory that uses all of the evidence is a universal beginning (your primordial soup). Until a better answer (that fits all the evidence) can be found, that will be sciences best explanation.
You used the word science to start every sentence/paragraph.
Proving the OP statement of - "are pushed by public services and their convinced students, and serve key social purposes from inception".
Go read another textbook and enjoy good "grades".
Copy cat...
So, you don't believe that we evolved from a primordial soup, but, I'm assuming, that you believe a giant deity went to the primordial cupboard for the ingredients necessary to make "7 Bean Navy Stew" or "Chicken Noodle Soup" ....some kind of a highly stylized soup.
Your assumption is incorrect
Experimental evolution is the use of experiments or controlled field manipulations to explore evolutionary dynamics.[1] Evolution may be observed in the laboratory as populations adapt to new environmental conditions and/or change by such stochastic processes as random genetic drift. With modern molecular tools, it is possible to pinpoint the mutations that selection acts upon, what brought about the adaptations, and to find out how exactly these mutations work. Because of the large number of generations required for adaptation to occur, evolution experiments are typically carried out with microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast or viruses, or other organisms with rapid generation times.[1][2][3] However, laboratory studies with foxes[4] and with rodents (see below) have shown that notable adaptations can occur within as few as 10-20 generations and experiments with wild guppies have observed adaptations within comparable numbers of generations.[5]
Fruit flies
One of the first of a new wave of experiments using this strategy was the laboratory "evolutionary radiation" of Drosophila melanogaster populations that Michael R. Rose started in February, 1980.[17] This system started with ten populations, five cultured at later ages, and five cultured at early ages. Since then more than 200 different populations have been created in this laboratory radiation, with selection targeting multiple characters. Some of these highly differentiated populations have also been selected "backward" or "in reverse," by returning experimental populations to their ancestral culture regime. Hundreds of people have worked with these populations over the better part of three decades.
I'm curious to know how intelligent design isn't the same as a chef in the kitchen, pulling from ingredients already stocked in the cupboard.
I'm really not a scientist, so can't argue the science, just the concept. It seems like a puzzle, withing a problem within a never ending conundrum!
I'm confused. Do you or do you not accept evolution?
originally posted by: 5StarOracle
a reply to: Ghost147
It seems he is calling bullsh*t on the grand origin of species portrayed by the theory of evolution.
originally posted by: 5StarOracle
a reply to: Ghost147
I can't help but agree with him...
originally posted by: 5StarOracle
a reply to: Ghost147
Speciation is no more an answer then it is a question...
It's just, you know, "Who designed the designer?"
No sane person would ignore the evolution of an individual, a group, a species, a phylum, a theory, or anything else : everything constantly changes and evolves in various ways, and none of it shows speciation to me so far.
Because in order for fish to become people incrementally, quite a few mothers would have had to give birth to different species, so that would be a recurring thing, which come on.