I'm not totally convinced of evolution, though I am convinced of mutation, some people consider them the same thing.

What about that fish they caught which they thought was extinct, and had fossils dating back 75 million odd years, WHICH WAS COMPLETELY UNCHANGED FOR ALL OF THIS TIME? It didn't evolve for millions of years.

What about trees that don't change for millions of years, same deal as the fish.

Why can a black person breed with a yellow person, a white person etc etc etc.

Why can a lion and a tiger breed?

Why can a horse and a donkey breed?

Anyway, if evolution is true, humans are going to start going backwards. We marry and mate for money, status etc now, rather than genetic preference.

So yeah, look forward to returning to ape man.

All terrorists are there already.

By the way Easel, if you take the average 21st century office administrator or accountant and send him back to the Neolithic period to fend for himself, we'd soon see* who is best adapted to survive.

* I always get confused with tenses in hypothetical time-travel cases. 

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That is how natural selection works. Evolution involves a lot of extra theories which are not scientific.

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A sport? What are you talking about?

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Wrong. Find me an academic natural historian who agrees with you on that. Or do you subscribe to freediver's theory of sufficient genetic potential?

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Not really. You could wipe out 99% of the human race without losing significant genetic information. We may be in for tough times, but our genes will catch up pretty quickly if they have to. If anything they are getting tougher. You need a good immune system to survive a plague of your own species. Adapting to living among such concentrated germ sources was critical to our ability to form complex societies. It didn't happen overnight. It took a long time.

A sport? You don't know what a genetic sport is? Off to wiki with you!

freediver wrote on Nov 30^th, 2008 at 7:36pm:


FD,

In all other matters you seem to take a meticulously logical attitude, yet in the case of evolution, it's almost as if you undergo a personality change.

I studied Geology up to second year university and at that time, they insisted that we do detailed methodical drawings of fossils. I remember in particular, the adaptation of ammonites with their convoluted suture lines which showed adaptation to deeper water environments, and how by the Cretaceous period, the shapes of the ammonites had evolved into completely different forms to suit changing conditions.  

We can trace whole sequences of modern animals, including man all the way from the beginning of the Eocene, and in the case of crocodiles - even earlier.

Tell me, do you also believe that the Earth is only 8000 years old?

freediver wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2008 at 11:07am:


How do you understand the term "Evolution"?

Are you talking about evolution, or the appearance of life on Earth? - because they are totally separate things.

It is pointless for me to go any further until I get a grasp of what you do and don't accept.

If I was to say for example that the Cretaceous Period was from approximately 144 to 65 Million Years Ago, and that the Solar System has an age of approximately 4.5 billion years, are they statements that you would agree with?

If not, I don't see the point in continuing my contribution to this thread.