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Not that many as they lead you to believe. Mostly just doing a Google search. I was more doing a comparison of pre civilized man's health vs civilized man. It is well established that hunter gathers were more healthy.
And over millions of years what do all these micro evolutions add up to? I'll give you a clue it begins with macro.
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No, we just said that ISN'T what evolution is. One type doesn't change into another. One type splits into novel types. An early fly might split into fruit flies and house flies, but both are still flies. That early fruit fly might split into the common fruit fly and the asian fruit fly, but both are still fruit flies which in turn are still flies. If a group of those common fruit flies then speciate into a new species, they will still be a subset of common fruit flies, which are still fruit flies, which are still flies, which are still insects, which are still hexapods, which are still arthropods, which are still bilateria, which are still animals, which are still eukaryotes.
Well said. Believers who put their faith in evolution just don't seem to get this and when we ask for evidence in the fossil record of one species changing into another species (not a variant of the same species) they can't provide any. Then there are the artists impressions of what they think a creature looked like, based perhaps on one or two fragments of bone. Where is all the overwhelming evidence for evolution then? I'll tell you where, it's in the imaginations of those who adhere to the faith.
Perhaps it's because you expect to see something ridiculous, like a crocoduck.
Or, a non-Christian, who has rejected Jesus, finds out that the words that Jesus spoke are true as he stands before him on the great day of judgement...
We don't have to look in the fossil record to see new species emerging. That's happened in real time.
Starting where we are now, let's say that something kills off a large amount of the mammals on earth. Heck, let's say everything but rats. All those lineages that were lost, pigs, dogs, horses, etc. are gone and will never return. Since rats are the only mammal left, all mammals from that point on will be rats. Those rats probably initially have lots of resources since they are all that's left, so the spread throughout the world (as they have proven good at doing already). Now you have rats all over the world competing with each other in different environments. As they compete for those local resources, they change. eventually you have rats that are accomplished tree climbers to get at fruit first, others that that get better at hunting insects, etc. Eventually, they evolve to fit the various niches in which they find themselves.The massive number of available niches paves the way for an explosion of speciation.
And jesus also said
The Reality channel. (Not that that matters to you, the bible says it settles it mantra of yours.)
In that case, whose reality is bigger?
Oh-oh!HitchSlap said:
Now you're saying:
Reality is not a choice. There is only one reality. You just choose to ignore it.
But belief in its size and contents are.
Not even close.HitchSlap said:
Oh, now we're going to factor in 'savior deity,' aren't we?HitchSlap said:
how does this differ from the Bible where we are told God will preserve a remnants to repopulate the earth. Even a close reading of genesis says man is to replenish the earth.
