You guys are sad, real sad.
In Evolution class today I asked the professor about how long it would take for a fruit fly lineage (3 week generation length) to speciate; that is, to give rise to a new species. She said about 500 million years. (She knows fruit flies, by the way.) Can anyone here do the math besides me? What does this mean for organisms like humans with 10-30 year generation lengths? Now don't make me lead you by the hand.
The entire insect order only diverged from class arthropoda 300-350mya. Your professor is wrong (don't be too hard on her, professors are only human too.).
Oh, maybe I need to: 20 years is (20 * 52 / 3) times as long as 3 weeks. Apply that factor to the 500 million year figure: 500,000,000 x 20 x 17 = 170 Billion years. And that is even assuming humans have as many offspring as fruit flies!!!!! Something here is mathmatically impossible. Savvy?
LorentzHA, you would do well to learn some design skills. Computer programming is one of the easiest forms I know of. I've also got some electronics circuitry design in my background. Some people design buildings, vehicles, or manufacturing processes. Any and all of these design fields MUST ABSOLUTELY reckon with factors such as stability (which is basically overcoming entropy for as long as possible).