Batyah
ElusiveMuse
Batyah
well how come it dosent point toa common creator? and why are there not fossils of the evolution prosses, like beast turning into birds?
There are. Some are even living today, these in-betweens. If you're looking for a specific "missing link" - what connects mammals to birds, say - there are actually many. Each difference between species is subtle, which is why you might think they don't exist, or have to be as extreme as the platypus.
This is a really cool website.
It's fun to kind of play around with. Here is a list of all known species - and when I say 'known', it's because fossils or live specimens have been found to exist in nature. You can click one species, then another, then see what their common ancestor is, this 'common creator' you're asking for.
Evolution is a pretty well known process, as we can even induce evolution (natural selection) in nature if we want. Of course, if a creature lives longer, it'll take a lot more time, but in our lifetime we can see it happen with smaller organisms - insects, bacteria/archaea, sometime small mammals. Would you like an example? I wouldn't mind sharing.
If the idea of evolution bothers you because of religious views, it shouldn't. I'm Catholic, and very believing and practicing. I know most religions, not only Christian ones, would point to evolution being a hoax or interfering with the idea of their God, but this is how I think of it: evolution explains the how, not the why. And religion, to me at least, is all about the why and the faith it takes to believe in it.
I really don't mind continuing this discussion, and I hope I haven't offended you with my point of view.
my other debate guy, stay out of this till you finish your thesis
razz lol
but any way, my problem with this is last i took a fish out of water it died, but there are few mammals that can breath water and air, a salamander is the only thing i can recall, lots of other creatures hold their breath. one would think this would be a cool thong to keep. also what of the creatures that went back into the water??isnt that counter intuitive? in your vid the dragon fly developed nice long wings over generations, if it didnt develop with a use when it first came out, why was it keept till it did? this goes against what i was taught about evolution, which is hay suddenly something new, if it dosent work you lose it, if it works you keep it, basically
here is a link or two , sorry it does not link its refrences but thats what we have google for ^^
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/evidence-for-creationism-faq.htm
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/isd/andrew-mcintosh (my debate friend you should click this one)
and a vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vBqYDBW5s&feature=share
I'm gonna quote some things you said and comment on them.
"one would think this would be a cool thing to keep"
True, sometimes some species evolve something really awesome, and we have to wonder why all species aren't like this. Lungfish are fish that breathe air. That sounds great - why don't all fish breathe air as well as water if it evolved? Well the truth is, not all species are pressured into selecting for things like that. Example - picture a large lake with one main species of fish. Let's call them Fishers. There's something at the bottom of the lake that feeds on Fishers, something that wasn't always there. Now suddenly there's something the fish have to adapt to. Normal Fishers die because they get eaten, but some Fishers have little spikes on their back. It was random and not useful - like humans that are born with large hands or small hands, its random but something that happens - and these fish don't get eaten because it hurts the thing that tries to eat them. So, these Fishers with little spikes survive, and because all the other Fishers are dead, only have each other to mate with, and so the next generation (their babies) have a higher likelihood of having these little spikes since their parents both had. If they are born without them, they get eaten. Do this again and again and again, because unless the thing that eats them is removed from the lake, the ones without spikes will die. Then, when most Fishers have spikes, the thing that feeds on them still has to eat, so they'll eat the ones with smaller spikes, those with bigger spikes (again, by chance, like having two siblings from same parents having one more hair than the other, for example) will survive better. If they're the only ones alive, they'll have babies with those with big spikes, etc, until the Fishers are so different from what they used to be that they're considered a new species.
Also, I don't think I sent you a video of a dragonfly. <<; I think you're talking to the wrong person.
"if it didnt develop with a use when it first came out, why was it keept till it did?"
All organisms have a lot of different genes that, by chance, are shown more in others than in some. Even for people. Not everything is visible - some things are going on inside us that we have no use for, but exist anyway. By chance and mutations, they exist.
Now, let's think of a dragonfly, since you brought it up. Imagine its ancestor has no wings. Let's talk about how the wings evolved in that species, yes? You implied they were only useful when they were long, that when they first came out they were unuseful and so shouldn't have been kept. I challenge this by telling you that even tiny little wings that aren't strong enough to let them take off are useful, and give them an advantage over a creature almost the same, except without.
Imagine something, like in the lake, really likes to eat these things we'll call Dragonflies (even if we're assuming they have no full wings yet). Maybe something happened to its old home so it had to move, and where it moved to, there's a lot of Dragonflies, and they decide they love it and that's what they want to eat. It happens all the time in nature. Okay, so now these Dragonflies, which have no wings, have this new pressure on them. There's a few in that population that were 'freaks' until then, who had little nubs on their backs they could flap but had no use. It was a freak chance - it just happened, like people who are born with an extra thumb or who bald early. There's no use, it's a little weird, but it exists. Now these Dragonflies with just tiny nubs can flap them and create the
tiniest bit of wingspan/air beneath them. Because of this, they're a tiny bit faster than the others. The ones who were slower, 'normal' without nubs on their back, get eaten first. Who's left to make babies? The ones with the little things sticking out of their backs. And like the Fishers in the example below, when two Dragonflies with little nubs on their backs have babies, there's a chance that they have nubs, too. Those with larger nubs (tiny wings) will go farther, will not get eaten, and will have babies with others who are faster because they have larger wings. Again and again until the Dragonflies became what they are today, because they were fastest and not eaten and were able to make babies.
Why didn't they, like the land mammals that went back into the ocean (whales, dolphins, seals) go back into the water and breathe that instead of air to get away from the thing that eats them? Why didn't they just learn to jump higher than they did? Why didn't they get spikes, like the Fishers, or breathe fire or learn to stab their predator? Because, by complete chance, there was no freak of Dragonflies that had the gene that let them do that. None of the original population was able to breathe water or jump higher, none had spikes and none had the instinct to stab. If they did, Dragonflies would be a lot different. But they didn't. What appeared was the tiny start of wings.
So, to make a long story short, even a little bit is better than nothing.
"but there are few mammals that can breath water and air"
No mammal breaths water/has gills. Any mammal found in the ocean still breathes air. It has to resurface to accomplish this, can hold their breath longer than we can, but they still need to breathe air.
Thanks for the links, I appreciate learning what the other side of this debate thinks, even if it doesn't seem sound. I'll check it out when I'm out of class. That said, if there are any points from those sites you want to make, feel free to. I feel like my arguments are pretty sound, but if you find holes in them, feel free to question and I'll try to explain it better.
