Lots of Gaps. That is why the scientific community cannot agree.
Such gaps exist in each and every field of science. Why is the expansion of the universe accelerating? Can the universe be completely described in terms of a cellular automaton? Where does mass come from?
The existence of these gaps in no way invalidates the things we
do know. In the case of evolution, some of the things we know are that the life forms existing today are descended from one or a small number of primitive unicellular life forms that existed billions of years ago. We know that natural selection and mutation can account for such variation.
Fossil gaps, Gaps in complexity, dismissed with a "what if" or a "could have". Gaps in domestic animals. Where did the chicken come from? If not for man these animals probably would not survive.
The Grey Jungle Fowl of Ceylon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/29/scichicken129.xml
Evolution takes millions of years. Thats weird that it only took 6,000 years for wild animals to evolve into docile non defensive animals. like sheep.
Evolution is a continuous process, often with long periods of near-statis punctuated by periods of rapid change. Not all evolutionary changes require millions of years. Good examples include the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the advent of nylon-eating bacteria, and the speciation of mosquitoes in the London Underground. These all happened in recent history.
BTW, domestic sheep don't radically differ physiologically from wild sheep. The selective breeding of domestic sheep has
nothing on the proliferation of dog breeds in the past 200 years, and even that poses absolutely no difficulty for the theory of evolution.
First domesticated animal is supposedly a dog. that happened 6,000 yrs ago. The bible says they were created domestic. That makes more sense than a 6,000 year evolutionary transformation.
Do you ever do any research before you post?
1. The domestication of the dog goes back at least 9 000 years, and possibly as far as 14 000 years.
2. It doesn't take thousands of years to domesticate wild animals. In fact you can make great strides towards domestication in your own lifetime, if you're so inclined. I suggest you start by examining Russia's domestication experiments with the silver fox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tame_Silver_Fox
I know how it is used. I'm using it different. Darwin is the god of gaps, Gaps in where life cam from, gaps in the fossil record, gaps on how all the pretty, fluffy, lovable creatures came from.
That's not what the God of the Gaps is. When there is a gap in our knowledge of evolution, we simply admit we don't know what goes there and set out to find it.
The "God of the Gaps" is what
you're doing - in the absence of an explanation, appealing to a supernatural cause that admits no testing or inquiry and pretending you've found an answer.
Evolution is the theory of survival of the fittest, adaption, and natural selection. If that was the case why are there cute creatures and plants.
I don't know if I've ever seen a plant I would call "cute". Some plants produce bright flowers because they rely on insects to spread their pollen. Some plants produce attractive fruit because they rely on animals to spread their seeds. Most animals need to be attractive to the opposite sex, and babies that take a long time to mature need to hold adults' attention and tug at their heartstrings. Being ugly isn't some kind of "one-size-fits-all" survival strategy, and I'm dumbfounded as to why you would imagine it was.
Wouldn't everything have evolved to protect itself? How does sheep protect itself? They don't. Wolves can go in and pick which one it wants. They just run around and make lots of noise so the humans can come and protect them.
Domestic sheep are, well, domesticated. We
bred the agression and out of them because (get this)
we want to eat them. Go out into the Rockies and pick a fight with a bighorn ram; I guarantee you'll see the difference.
Your correct we have made many discoveries in science. It does not dismiss God.
Of course not.
Why had no one ever seen a rainbow before Noah?
There's no reason to suppose Noah ever existed, and even sillier to suggest that there were no rainbows more than 4500 years ago.
Here is a little bible science for you. In the bible it says the earth was surrounded by water.
Genesis1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
God made the air in between the waters. waters in the heavens and waters on the Earth. This would create a nice canopy around the planet, that kept heat in. The whole Earth was tropical. Thats why tropical plant fossils are every where.
1. What kept the water up?
2. Where is this canopy now?
Plus according to Genesis the plants were watered by a mist that came out of the ground.
Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
What happened to this mechanism?
We know this is possible. We still see this happen today, just not at the same scale.
Why do you suppose it isn't at the same scale?
Now when the great flood happened all the water that was above came down to the earth, opened the Earth to space for the first time and froze mammoth's in Siberia with food still in his mouth. and for the first time in history man saw sunlight filter through rain drops. They saw a rainbow for the first time. That is why Noah and his family were in awe of it. They had never seen one. They didn't understand how it happened, but we do.
God created the way for a rainbow. Not the rainbow itself.
Than prove it wrong.
Glad to. If this "Vapor Canopy" were to contain even a significant fraction of the water needed to flood the earth, its weight would increase the air pressure at ground level to the point that the earth would be uninhabitable. Further, the heat from all that vapor condensing in a short timeframe would steam-sterilize the entire planet.
No, that's just clear thinking. It makes no more sense to appeal to evolution to explain cosmology than it does to appeal to aerodynamics to explain acid-base chemistry.
They're all connected, one would not happen with out the other. Evolution is part of the big picture.
Of course it is. That doesn't mean it's the
whole big picture. Evolution has its part to play in explaining the universe, and that part is explaining the diversity of life on earth.
according to evolution physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, or cosmology.
This isn't even a sentence, so you'll have to explain it a little.
All had to happen for life to even start somewhere and help create the diversity.
Let's do a little word association, shall we?
Evolution is to __________ as nuclear decay is to Physics.
Physics, Chemistry, Cosmology, Meteorology, and Biology are sciences. They don't happen. They just are. Evolution is a theory within Biology.
You missed the point. Where did hydrogen come from?
The condensation of quarks from the Big Bang. Hydrogen formation is pretty much unavoidable when the quarks are present and the temperature isn't unbelievably high.
Nuclear fusion.
How do they know the Big bang created these things from nothing. There had to be something there.
The Big Bang doesn't say these things came from nothing. It brings us back to a point where everything is extremely hot and compacted and that's currently as far back as our knowledge extends.
Seriously, you've been instructed on this before.
What made the stars to make the Iron and Gold?
Gravity. Gravity makes matter in space clump together. In the early universe it was pretty much all hydrogen gas doing the clumping. Get enough hydrogen together in space and its own weight will initiate nuclear fusion.
How could Hydrogen and helium be products of an explosion.
Hydrogen was a product of the cooling off of the universe. The Big Bang was an expansion of space itself, not some kind of overgrown firecracker.
What would have caused the explosion. Something had to be there to explode. Where did that stuff come from.
Welcome to the frontiers of physics.
Your explanation is lacking evidence.
No, it's lacking
scope, namely an explanation that goes back further than our current understanding. Physicists and astronomers are working on those questions and advancing our knowledge, which is more than I can say for creationists and theologians.
Matter does not just come into existence from an explosion. Or we would see that phenomenon still happening. Matter created by explosion.
The Big Bang model never says it did, so you can drop that now.
