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Originally posted by Gordi The Drummer
So Quickly? (Several million years.... one new generation every 20 years or so... hmm)
So Different? (2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 of most other things!)
Do you mean different colour? Because there may be a clue in the geographical location of each colours indigenous home...
Close to the equator = hot = darker coloured skin to avoid burning in the sun.
Far from the equator = cold = paler skin, (pigment not required to protect from sun.)
Yes, it is entirely possible for one species to adapt to it's surroundings, by developing several different strains to suit varied locations... almost all species do it!
peace,
G
Originally posted by conar
...Where do you get several million years from?
Homo Sapiens has only existed for 250,000 years
en.wikipedia.org...
...I'm mainly talking about the physically aspects, we are physically very different from eachother.
I live in the north, and I'm white. But in the summer we have 20 hours of sunlight, so we have more sunlight than at equater... so I dont know about the equater theory is any good
[edit on 20-12-2009 by conar]
Originally posted by JcOg323
reply to post by watcher73
I think people throw around the evolutionary word to much. When in reality they are talking about adaptation.
en.wikipedia.org... Adaptation is the process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat.[1][2] This process takes place over many generations,[3] and is one of the basic phenomena of biology.[4]
We dont see rats turning into birds and so on. JEEZ we do see animals and humans adapting to their enviroment. As in skin pigmentation, or in one of darwin's own examples on the galapogos finch (a bird)who has a longer beak than its mainland group. They adapted a longer beak because their food source lies lower in the sand then other food sources of the same population on the mainland. Thats not a new species its still a finch with a longer beak. Even darwin himself in his book had serious problems about his theory and clearly stated that, the problem is there are missing evolutionary fossils to link up the so called evolutionary changes. Not one has been found. Explain that. But i bet all you people crying evolution havn't even read his book Origins. You just spout out the BS our public school system and those who would like to discredit the work of a supreme being have fed you. Educate yourself on the facts before you throw your weight around.
[edit on Sun Dec 20 2009 by Jbird]
May 19th 2009
Feast your eyes on what a group of scientists call the Holy Grail of human evolution.
A team of researchers Tuesday unveiled an almost perfectly intact fossil of a 47 million-year-old primate they say represents the long-sought missing link between humans and apes.
On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.
Originally posted by Gordi The Drummer
Hi conar,
I was talking mammals in general, but...
OK Homo Sapiens... 250,000 years? = approx 12,500 generations!
(plenty enough for adaptive changes to take place?)
Originally posted by spikey
Look...there's a simple, 'Occam's razor' type explanation for these Out of place objects.
Typical scenarios would include (amongst others) volcanic eruptions..tsunamis washing away settlements and people into deep crevices and fissures in long established strata.
Covered by hundreds of thousands, even millions of tonnes of silt and debris from both the land and the sea, over a few thousand years, would form a type of natural concrete (concretions) that would appear to have been there for millions of years, and give the illusion that the objects had been there since the original strata was laid down aeons ago.
If the land raises due to calderas, earth heaves, quakes etc..the millions of years of concretion and regolith creates numerous routes for 'modern' (a few thousands of years) objects, utensils, people and their animals, tools and so on, can be broken up and displaced by the natural event, whatever that event happens to be, and enter into crevices created by geological processes, which can close up again, just as easily as they opened, leaving objects that look for all intents and purposes as though they had lain buried for millions of years.
THAT'S the realistic, plausible and rational explanation..HOWEVER, that is not to say, other more esoteric and / or strange phenomena are not to blame either...it's just that little bit more hard to believe.
Maybe, these object have NOT been placed there yet...(bear with me), but will be placed there in the next couple of years.
Why? How?
The LHC...
What if (and yes, it IS one of those 'what ifs), the LHC created a timewave anomaly (soon), and the resulting 'timewave' rushing across the Earth will displace objects and people from here (or from the past) and deposit them millions of years into the past..
This would account for the object too. Unlikely of course, but not beyond our capacity to imagine happening eh?
I'm a little doubtful of the humans from another planetary system coming here millions of years ago, as we are finding stone tools, and other rudimentary tools and objects that would be more associated with a low technology people, rather than a high tech, space fairing one.
Unless we dig us a millions of years old fleet of space craft..
Originally posted by sphinx551
Originally posted by radarloveguy
Evolution is not a theory ... , it's a myth !
Mankind has existed at an advanced stage 4 times in ancient history .
Here's what happened:
Humans came from other planetary systems and settled on Earth as settlement a long time ago. One major group in Australia and one in Burma. A group brought kangaroos from their home planet. The kangaroo had trouble at first on Earth but later adapted. The Red Sea didn't exist at this time and the ones in Australia later settled in Africa. In essence, the original people of the Earth are the Negroids and Mongoloids. At a time later some of the Negroids and Mongoloids mixed and thus created the Arabs. The group that stayed back in Australia and surrounding areas became the Australoids. I do not know how the Caucasians came here but there was a group of dark eyed brown-dark brown haired individuals that settled in southern Russia that later became the Jews. They settled because of the conditions in their home planets.
There was no evolution. Human's origins come from outer space and human beings are common in the universe. The universe is full of life.
[edit on 19-12-2009 by sphinx551]
Originally posted by GideonHM
Evolution is very, very real, but how we got here is most likely so unbelievable that people will reject it simply out of fear of the unknown.
Originally posted by radarloveguy
Evolution is not a theory ... , it's a myth !
Mankind has existed at an advanced stage 4 times in ancient history .
When open rebellion against God reaches a trigger point , WHAM !!!!
Originally posted by OZtracized
Originally posted by sphinx551
Originally posted by radarloveguy
Evolution is not a theory ... , it's a myth !
Mankind has existed at an advanced stage 4 times in ancient history .
Here's what happened:
Humans came from other planetary systems and settled on Earth as settlement a long time ago. One major group in Australia and one in Burma. A group brought kangaroos from their home planet. The kangaroo had trouble at first on Earth but later adapted. The Red Sea didn't exist at this time and the ones in Australia later settled in Africa. In essence, the original people of the Earth are the Negroids and Mongoloids. At a time later some of the Negroids and Mongoloids mixed and thus created the Arabs. The group that stayed back in Australia and surrounding areas became the Australoids. I do not know how the Caucasians came here but there was a group of dark eyed brown-dark brown haired individuals that settled in southern Russia that later became the Jews. They settled because of the conditions in their home planets.
There was no evolution. Human's origins come from outer space and human beings are common in the universe. The universe is full of life.
[edit on 19-12-2009 by sphinx551]
Are you serious or just joking? Where do get this information from?
It doesn't disprove evolution as such it just means we have our timeline wrong (or evolution occurred on another planet and they came here).
The view that macroevolution is a slow and gradual process is called gradualism. According to this view, small changes in each generation over time result in major biological changes.
This hypothesis suggests that the pattern of macroevolution consists of long periods of time when little evolutionary change occurs (stasis) and short periods of time when rapid evolutionary change occurs.
Originally posted by sphinx551
Originally posted by radarloveguy
Evolution is not a theory ... , it's a myth !
Mankind has existed at an advanced stage 4 times in ancient history .
Here's what happened:
Humans came from other planetary systems and settled on Earth as settlement a long time ago. One major group in Australia and one in Burma. A group brought kangaroos from their home planet. The kangaroo had trouble at first on Earth but later adapted. The Red Sea didn't exist at this time and the ones in Australia later settled in Africa. In essence, the original people of the Earth are the Negroids and Mongoloids. At a time later some of the Negroids and Mongoloids mixed and thus created the Arabs. The group that stayed back in Australia and surrounding areas became the Australoids. I do not know how the Caucasians came here but there was a group of dark eyed brown-dark brown haired individuals that settled in southern Russia that later became the Jews. They settled because of the conditions in their home planets.
There was no evolution. Human's origins come from outer space and human beings are common in the universe. The universe is full of life.
[edit on 19-12-2009 by sphinx551]
...the original question : how did life originate?