Evolution is when monkeys turn into other things. For example, the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz that are controlled by a magic golden hat worn by the Wicked Witch of the West. The most important lesson that can be taken from this movie is that whosoever wears the golden hat controls the future of evolution.
Unfortunately, I do not know the current location of the hat.
Evolution is where Dave throws a Bush light can across the apartment when you and I beat him at Mario tennis too many times in a row. Its Darwin at his best.
Lol you would start this thread.
Hmm now that i think about it though, you have already proven that Darwinism isn’t in effect. By this i mean surely the guy who holds onto a windshield of a moving car going 60mph can’t be the fittest. lol
I wish people who didn’t believe in evolution would at least glance at a college-level textbook for an evolution or comparative anatomy class. Or genetics or molecular biology or developmental biology for that matter.
It’d be silly to show up to a bible study class and argue about the meaning of a certain passage having never read the bible.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Lorisco wrote:
Next, evolution occurs on earth.
It happens everywhere. Evolution is merely change studied in specifically defined systems. These systems are not discrete they are contiguous and can be formed within each other.
Earth is part of the solar system, which is part of the galaxy, etc. It is the solar system and beyond that allow, and have allowed, life on earth to exists. For example, if the earth was a little closer to the sun it would be too hot for life to survive. If it moved too far away from the sun it would freeze and again life would eventually die out. So it is the stability of the solar system that allows life to exist. There are also many subsystems like the weather, etc.
What you are talking about is organic evolution – the specific changes required to bring about life.
But my point is that the process of evolution is change and adaptation, but only within the confines of a very stable larger system; the solar system, which changes very little.
Evolution can be studied irrespective of timescale. Time is completely relative in terms of the age of the universe. The evolutionary study of the universe in general is called cosmology. Those who study the evolution of physical planets would call it geology.
I view evolution in a much broader and more generalized sense – or try to.[/quote]
The person that started this thread was referring to human evolution, so that is what I was addressing.
The issue I was discussing was the relative stability of the solar system to continue to allow organic life. Regardless of the amount of change or evolution geologist’s state has occurred, it still has not changed to the extent to not allow organic life. That either supports a certain level of stability and lack of change in the universe or win the lottery 100, 000 times in one day kind of luck, that continues to occur.