Evolution: Fact Or Fiction

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[Phaeton]

HengeKhan

bluewolfcub

Phaeton

bluewolfcub

HengeKhan

Only idiots believe in a book word for word that they have no factual evidence to support who wrote it.

Yeah, that too.

Not to mention parts of that particular book have allready been debunked for historical inaccuracy.

I'm confused - do you people think I'm a creationist or something?

I was just supporting your argument sweatdrop

I don't think you're a creationist either, I was just chiming in.

[Angra-Mainyu]

ThePouch

we did not come from a common ancestor. my first ancestors were Adam, Eve and Cain. ( Abel was murdered by his brother so i'm pretty sure he did not have any offsprings.)

But that means that I am not descended from Adam! crying

Who was my great … great grandfather? cry

[TANSTAAFL]

ThePouch

we did not come from a common ancestor. my first ancestors were Adam, Eve and Cain. ( Abel was murdered by his brother so i'm pretty sure he did not have any offsprings.)

Wait, you say we didn't come from a common ancestor, then said that we all came from Adam and his sons. Surely that would make Adam the common ancestor of all humans. And surely that would allow us to do some tests to find out when he lived.

See, there is a nifty trick you can pull off on DNA to find the last common male or female ancestor of any group of inderviduals. They have run tests on masses of the earths population.

By running genetic clocks backwards, we can calculate that the last common male ancestor of every man alive today lived about 60,000 to 90,000 years ago. Any more recently, it would be easy to spot.

Running a similar test on women gives you a date of about 150,000 years ago. So 'Eve' would have lived over 60,000 years before Adam. Makes sense, if you understand evolution. For creationists, this is a problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosome_Adam

[Isamarewaswerebeen]

ThePouch

Relg

bluewolfcub

dragon_nymph

Well first, though we have common links, we could not have evolved from monkeys...

Only idiots claim we evolved from monkeys.

Exactly. We evolved from a monkey-like common ancestor.

we did not come from a common ancestor. my first ancestors were Adam, Eve and Cain. ( Abel was murdered by his brother so i'm pretty sure he did not have any offsprings.)

Evidence?

And if your ancestors were those three... where did Cain's wife come from? Hell, where did EVERYONE come from. Seriously, the population of humans would've died out in about two generations if it was Adam and Eve. Use some logic.

[Vryko Lakas]

MyxineDamion

Just like some single-celled animals (myxozoa) came (it seems) from multicellular, bilateral organisms. A U turn is always possible.

Don't forget my favorite single-celled critters, HeLa.
The immortal offspring of cervical cancer.

[Ihavenoarmz]

ThePouch

Relg

bluewolfcub

dragon_nymph

Well first, though we have common links, we could not have evolved from monkeys...

Only idiots claim we evolved from monkeys.

Exactly. We evolved from a monkey-like common ancestor.

we did not come from a common ancestor. my first ancestors were Adam, Eve and Cain. ( Abel was murdered by his brother so i'm pretty sure he did not have any offsprings.)

If you had read the Bible, you would know that Adam and Eve had a boatload (no pun intended) of offsprings. I'm not sure about Cain and stuff, but I think he pretty much only gave birth to other sinners and evil people and such.

[Epic Azure]

HengeKhan

chrisoya

Azure_Lightz

The mind is somewhat defined as any instinct like emotion and such. But the 10% of our brain that we use doesn't specify our minds so wouldn't that have to come from somewhere else? confused

We do not just use ten percent of our brains. That is a myth which has been repeated for so long that people believe it, but there is absolutely no evidence backing it up.
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Haha, sage'd!

@ Chrisoya:Even still there isn't a specified part of our brain that controls our conscience and such...

@ HengeKhan:Not exactly so don't speak if you aren't 100% sure I've quit... neutral

[BlackShadow03]

Azure_Lightz

HengeKhan

chrisoya

Azure_Lightz

The mind is somewhat defined as any instinct like emotion and such. But the 10% of our brain that we use doesn't specify our minds so wouldn't that have to come from somewhere else? confused

We do not just use ten percent of our brains. That is a myth which has been repeated for so long that people believe it, but there is absolutely no evidence backing it up.
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Haha, sage'd!

@ Chrisoya:Even still there isn't a specified part of our brain that controls our conscience and such...

@ HengeKhan:Not exactly so don't speak if you aren't 100% sure I've quit... neutral

And you get this idea from.......?

[Ihavenoarmz]

Vryko Lakas

MyxineDamion

Just like some single-celled animals (myxozoa) came (it seems) from multicellular, bilateral organisms. A U turn is always possible.

Don't forget my favorite single-celled critters, HeLa.
The immortal offspring of cervical cancer.

Immortality created from human cells infected with virus DNA? Heee.
I wonder if any Sci-Fi authors thought it would be that simple.

[Epic Azure]

BlackShadow03

Azure_Lightz

HengeKhan

chrisoya

Azure_Lightz

The mind is somewhat defined as any instinct like emotion and such. But the 10% of our brain that we use doesn't specify our minds so wouldn't that have to come from somewhere else? confused

We do not just use ten percent of our brains. That is a myth which has been repeated for so long that people believe it, but there is absolutely no evidence backing it up.
1 2 3 4

Haha, sage'd!

@ Chrisoya:Even still there isn't a specified part of our brain that controls our conscience and such...

@ HengeKhan:Not exactly so don't speak if you aren't 100% sure I've quit... neutral

And you get this idea from.......?

I'm not 100% sure, but I've gone over charts and it doesn't exactly mention that...

[Epic Azure]

BlackShadow03

Azure_Lightz

HengeKhan

chrisoya

Azure_Lightz

The mind is somewhat defined as any instinct like emotion and such. But the 10% of our brain that we use doesn't specify our minds so wouldn't that have to come from somewhere else? confused

We do not just use ten percent of our brains. That is a myth which has been repeated for so long that people believe it, but there is absolutely no evidence backing it up.
1 2 3 4

Haha, sage'd!

@ Chrisoya:Even still there isn't a specified part of our brain that controls our conscience and such...

@ HengeKhan:Not exactly so don't speak if you aren't 100% sure I've quit... neutral

And you get this idea from.......?

Also... I don't agree with the part in your siggy that says Theories aren't guesses because they are EDUCATED guesses, if they were fact then they would be a law and not a theory.

[Vryko Lakas]

Well there's always The Pak Protectors in Larry Niven's Ringworld series.
Not exactly immortal, but very long-lived (among other things) thanks to a symbiotic viral infection.

[HengeKhan]

Azure_Lightz

HengeKhan

chrisoya

Azure_Lightz

The mind is somewhat defined as any instinct like emotion and such. But the 10% of our brain that we use doesn't specify our minds so wouldn't that have to come from somewhere else? confused

We do not just use ten percent of our brains. That is a myth which has been repeated for so long that people believe it, but there is absolutely no evidence backing it up.
1 2 3 4

Haha, sage'd!

@ Chrisoya:Even still there isn't a specified part of our brain that controls our conscience and such...

@ HengeKhan:Not exactly so don't speak if you aren't 100% sure I've quit... neutral

You mean you still think we use 10% of our brains? Because that's what you're implying.

[Vryko Lakas]

Azure_Lightz

if they were fact then they would be a law and not a theory.

Go back a couple of pages and educate yourself.

[BlackShadow03]

Azure_Lightz

BlackShadow03

Azure_Lightz

HengeKhan

chrisoya

Azure_Lightz

The mind is somewhat defined as any instinct like emotion and such. But the 10% of our brain that we use doesn't specify our minds so wouldn't that have to come from somewhere else? confused

We do not just use ten percent of our brains. That is a myth which has been repeated for so long that people believe it, but there is absolutely no evidence backing it up.
1 2 3 4

Haha, sage'd!

@ Chrisoya:Even still there isn't a specified part of our brain that controls our conscience and such...

@ HengeKhan:Not exactly so don't speak if you aren't 100% sure I've quit... neutral

And you get this idea from.......?

Also... I don't agree with the part in your siggy that says Theories aren't guesses because they are EDUCATED guesses, if they were fact then they would be a law and not a theory.

You obviously don't understand the definition of a scientific theory. I have a great site handy that can explain the differences and why a theory does not become a law. It should be here.

P.S.: An educated guess is a hypothesis.......not a theory.