12-05-2011, 02:32 PM
(12-05-2011, 02:00 PM)IMaDick Wrote:(12-05-2011, 01:30 PM)Middle Finger Wrote: Now, a question or two if I may.
#1) Do you really think that all the species we see gradually appearing more complex through the geological record were sprinkled there in such a way as to simulate evolution? Please don't tell me that a God sprinkled them in gradually out of thin air over time like that.
#2) You do realize, right, that the hierarchy within plant and animal families, from fossils to DNA, is evolutionary in structure? Please don't tell me that God plays such tricks.
#3) You do realize that many modern sciences, disciplines, medicines, etc. would not work if evolution was false, right? God gave us a mountain of evidence for evolution and made the science functional and helpful just to tease us, I guess.
as soon as you can explain with a certianty the existence of one animal we can talk about the rest.
a first one is what evolution seems to be lacking, that and a continuation of the process.
Explain with certainty the existence of one animal?
I also don't know what you mean by continuation of the process. In many species, a practical flip animation book can be pieced together with the fossils. The wide variety of dogs we "force evolved" from wolves in a relatively short period of time is a good example. The different strains of bacteria we can "force evolve" into totally different strains that do very different things is a good lab experiment you should check out. The DNA evidence is also clear as day, for example, that humans and primates share a common ancestor.
At least check out these lines of evidence:
Fossil record
DNA/RNA
direct observation of prokaryotes
vestigial structures
Homologous structures
embryological evidence
More reading to help you:
http://teachthemscience.org/evidence
If there is even a small part of you that wonders something like "if we evolved from monkeys than why are there still monkeys" I submit to you that you really don't understand evolution at all and have clearly not taken any serious time to witness the amazing mountain of evidence for it. There is more evidence for it than a lot of things we all take as given. It is only due to how it conflicts with the outdated scriptures and our lack of practice in valuing evidence over belief that we still have schools in America that ban teaching it (mostly in the Bible Belt). The banning of evolution in schools is one of my favorite examples of religion fucking up progress and rational thinking.
What's sad is that the evolutionary story is so amazing and people are missing out on the highest drama tale possible. Far more dramatic than "Everything was magically popped in out of thin air and now we have to worship the magical popper."

