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Loke said:
The whole purpose of evolution was us, human beings, right?
Yes. The entire universe was created specifically for our existence. Earth and all the animals that live on it are mere playthings for us to use as we please. Human beings are the pinnacle of creation and evolution is not true because it implies that human beings are anything less than perfection. This "thoery" cannot be tolerated because it interfers with self-worship.
 
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Ampoliros said:
Someone? Well, I'm thinking my oxygen is made by plants, like the ones outside my window, and that plants were around for many years before us oxygen-breathers were. So, we evolved to breathe oxygen because its a good thing(tm).

Well that is a conundrum is it not? At what point was oxygen created? For the simplest living cell to even come close to forming, oxygen can't be present, yet when the cell is formed it needs oxygen.
That is why in lab attempts to re-create the 'organic soup' and the process of making life, they have to eliminate oxygen from their experiment. But that is only one of MANY problems they encounter in that experiment.
 
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Arafax said:
Well that is a conundrum is it not? At what point was oxygen created?

The element oxygen was created in stars before the planet even existed. In terms of free oxygen in the atmosphere, this did not exist in substantial amounts until roughly 2 billion years ago.

This is evidenced by banded iron formations. Without free oxygen in the atmosphere, iron rich rocks would not be oxidized by the atmosphere like they are now. Instead the iron could be dissolved into water and carried to larger bodies of water. It could precipitate out of solution by the production of oxygen by photosynthesizing archaebacteria as Fe3O4. These types of formations do not occur today because of the oxidizing nature of our atmosphere. There must have been a significant change in the chemistry of the atmosphere, with respect to free oxygen, in order for these banded iron formations to form.

For the simplest living cell to even come close to forming, oxygen can't be present, yet when the cell is formed it needs oxygen.

Haven't you ever heard of anaerobic bacteria?
 
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Big Rob said:
I blame the Platypus. That's one strangerous animal.

But very useful at barbecues.

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Loke said:
If we evolved from monkeys, how come monkeys still exist?
According to the Bible (I'm sure there is a quote in there somewhere) monkeys don't exist so the problem goes away. Now you may think that monkeys exist and indeed you may have even have thought that you have seen some but those are really just very small people with tails glued on.
 
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