Evolutionists: answer me this.

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upon reviewing the thread and the username of the OP (simil may be a play on simian suggesting the OP accepts our simian ancestry) I call Poe.

 

[Willtor]

I'm generally a pretty strong proponent of Poe's Law except that I would weaken it to say that occasionally it's pretty obvious.

 

[cerad]

If we were intelligently designed, why weren't we designed with gills so we wouldn't drown?

(must have something to do with sin, I'm sure)

Yep. If people had gill's then Noah's flood would have been an exercise in futility.

 

[Phred]

If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?

I haven't read the thread yet but I'm sure you've been told it's because you don't know what you're talking about. Individuals don't evolve, populations do. The changes happen between generations not to individuals. You will die as you were born.

Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments, so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything. In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.

We, humans, have taken control of our environment and don't have any reason to change as a species. That doesn't mean that individuals, families and tribes haven't changed over the years. I'm betting examples have been given to you already. The two-toed tribe in africa, I'll tell you about Eero whatshisname in Sweden and his entire family with the genetic mutation that allows them to have better endurance so they win gold medals in cross-country skiing. But, you're looking for someone to grow a fin out of their backs and that's not going to happen...

There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.

Nah... that's not an answer to anything but your desire to be martyred here so you can feel good about taking shots in his name.

Feel better now? I'll go read the rest of this thread and see what the usual suspects have cooked up.

***well, I was wrong... nevermind.***

 

[TheOutsider]

If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?

Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments, so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything. In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.

There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.

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[Dannager]

Yup, Poe.

No actual creationist would give up so easily.

 

[RealityCheck]

Yup, Poe.

No actual creationist would give up so easily.

QFT

 

[gamespotter10]

If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?

Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments, so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything. In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.

There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.

the reason we dont have gills is because natural selection is blind. it is non-random survival of randomly varying mutations

 

[gamespotter10]

Well, if one was to be pedantic one could state that all mammals have gills...in their embryonic states. Haeckel's "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" argument has a lot to answer for (no less his drawings) but the fact that all the mammalia have pharangeal gills is interesting, and is cited by many as evidence of an evolutionaty past.

Blessings and love.

Omar

not just all mammals, ALL vertebrates
have phyrangeal pouches

 

[THX]

If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?

Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments, so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything. In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.

There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.

Oh my god.

I think that is possibly the most pathetic justification for creation I have ever read.

I have a few questions for you:
Do you spend the majority of your life in a swimming pool? Is it your living environment?

Secondly;

Would having gills increase your likelihood to survive and therefore pass on your genes?

No. You would get out of the swimming pool and die.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?

If people lived in swimming pools for millions of generations, then something akin to gills would almost certainly evolve. As it happens, this is not the case: humans live on land.

Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments,

Correction: evolution by natural selection is the process by which populations adapt. A change in the genome occurs at conception. Changes in the frequency of inheritable traits occurs in the population. A person will only ever have a certain pigment of skin, but the frequency of any given pigment changes over time to suit the enivroment.

so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything.

Because we haven't. We take a dip in water now and then, but we do not live our entire lives in water, and so there is no advantage for us to evolve into more aquatic lifeforms: we are land mammals, not aquatic mammals.

In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.

We have. But to grow a third eye (say) takes millions of years, not thousands.

There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.

Non sequitur. How do you link this conclusion with anything you have just said?

 

[Nathan45]

If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?

Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments, so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything. In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.

There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.

PHELPS AND CHICK FOREVER


I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this, but the above from the OPs signature spells out "PHELPS AND CHICK FOREVER" in greek letters.... its not actually greek, just transliterate the english letters to equivilent greek ones and thats what you get.

So yes, you all got Poed.

and no i don't speak greek, internet for the win. http://babelfish.altavista.com/

 

[MrGoodBytes]

PHELPS AND CHICK FOREVER


I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this, but the above from the OPs signature spells out "PHELPS AND CHICK FOREVER" in greek letters.... its not actually greek, just transliterate the english letters to equivilent greek ones and thats what you get.

So yes, you all got Poed.

and no i don't speak greek, internet for the win. http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Strange, I see the signature in Latin letters...

 

[Nathan45]

Boyleef...he is rising...we have little time...RUN

kthaxbai

also from OP's signature... thats greek letters for

Boyleef...he is rising...we have little time...RUN
kthaxbai

 

[Nathan45]

Strange, I see the signature in Latin letters...

hmm might be because your computer can't render greek so it just spells it out in regular characters. I don't know.

 

[MrGoodBytes]

hmm might be because your computer can't render greek so it just spells it out in regular characters. I don't know.

I love my computer.

 

[DrkSdBls]

Besides. Gills are would be a Step back in many cases.

Gills evolved in Primitive Aquatic Lifeforms to take advantage of the Oxygen in Water. Gills were a evolutionary Step up for them.

But We've moved out of the water into an Oxygen-rich Environment and have Lungs better adapted to take advantage of this Oxygen-rich Environment. Why would we revert to a state that's harder for us to get the Oxygen we need when it's easier just to still to lungs. Sure, Gills in Addition to lungs would be useful but not necessary.

 

[Chalnoth]

I think she ran off.

I think it'd be a good idea not to jump to such conclusions less than an hour after the original post.

That aside, in response to the original post, I think a better question is why do you think God made whales with lungs instead of gills? Evolution explains this perfectly, but why are there aquatic animals that have to surface to breathe? And remember, this is not easy on them: it has been shown that whales get the bends just like human divers who surface too quickly, and this takes a significant toll on them after a number of years of repeatedly diving and resurfacing for air.

 

[guzman]

Probably because we don't live in swimming pools. Breathing oxygen is still a useful thing to do.



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wait...that should have no bearing on randomly-mutating gills.

 

[Nathan Poe]

wait...that should have no bearing on randomly-mutating gills.

Actually, it has everything to do with that. Environment determines which traits are passed on.