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You should not confuse the absence of belief in God's plan, or of God, with opposition to such an imagined (by others) plan.Why would anyone ever seek to oppose God's Plan , to depart from God's Way, to seek what is opposed to God's Word ? Who is it that attempts to thwart God's Word, Plan, and Healing; who seeks to oppose Truth, Jesus, Life as God Says ?
Personally, my favorite story from evolutionary theory is the one where that cow who walked out of the sea one day decides to walk back into the sea and become a whale. What a brilliant, visionary move. When you compare how much beef McDonald's sells to how much whale blubber they sell...brilliant move. <slow clap>
I would expect that prior to becoming a whale, the mammal would have had a period of time where it simply spent lots of time in water, e,g the Hippo
Yes, cows and hippos are both even-toed ungulates. But can you elaborate?
I would expect that prior to becoming a whale, the mammal would have had a period of time where it simply spent lots of time in water, e,g the Hippo
How would any living creature ever adapt to an environment that is so hostile to it that in a matter of minutes of exposure to such an environment, said creature would literally die?That scenario is nothing like what would have to happen for humans to develop gills. To start with, even if humans were exposed to conditions in which they gradually developed the ability to breath under water, there is no necessity that the adaptation would even resemble the gills of a fish
Okay so if I as a human being wanted to develop gills so I could respirate underwater like a common fish, how would I go about it? Would I attempt to drown myself every day and force my descendants to do so for hundreds of thousands of years in order for evolution to "click" and say "I should give that man gills"
Somebody explain?
So the amoeba didn't develop organs? It had those organs already?it simply adapts what it already has
But it's not a ToE story. It's a naive strawman that creationists tell each other because the don't understand biology. It's no more a part of ToE than nanotubules or graphullerene.What I said was that the whale thing is my favorite TOE story.
Not aurochs specifically, but closely related hooved creatures.I agree. No one in their right mind would believe Barak Obama could evolve into Donald Trump. Same with cows and whales.
You can't.Okay so if I as a human being wanted to develop gills so I could respirate underwater like a common fish, how would I go about it?
It can't. I have to ask- why do you think it might adapt in a few minutes?How would any living creature ever adapt to an environment that is so hostile to it that in a matter of minutes of exposure to such an environment, said creature would literally die?
No, this is not a trick question.Is this a trick question? I said "monkey" and you said "apes". I thought humans were apes. Could it be that taxonomy is all just useless arbitrary semantics? For example, I have a banana in the kitchen which is yellow. I also own a shirt which is yellow. So obviously, bananas and shirts are the same type of thing.
According to evolution, yes, they do. Everything living thing at one point derived from a single celled organism.You can't.
Wait, do you think individual animals turn into something else?
That's my point. If there's no way for a marine animal to adapt to breathing oxygen with lungs, then other animals who have lungs shouldn't be able to get gills. The problem with evolutionary theory is that it explicitly states that marine animals developed the ability to respirate outside of water/gills. I am merely highlighting how absurd that proposition is, and you are agreeing with me.It can't. I have to ask- why do you think it might adapt in a few minutes?
If we were to observe the spontaneous generation of a living organism out of non-living or inorganic matter, that would be the sort of fact that could disprove evolution.What sort of facts could disprove it?
Does anyone have any?
I guess I'll take that as a "no, I cannot elaborate".Well, in your post you were claiming that evolution is a result of brilliant, visionary moves.
You also bizarrely claimed that a cow walked out of the sea, perhaps implying that cows lived in the sea??
and then bizarrely claimed that the same cow made a decision to walk back into the sea and become a whale?
I was just pointing out that your post is nonsense and is avoiding the intermediary forms.
There is no evidence that cows were sea bound creatures ever.
So the amoeba didn't develop organs? It had those organs already?
Doesn't even begin to address what I said. Thanks for nothing.This ain't rocket science. You begin with organisms comprised of very simple genetic building blocks. From those the potential to evolve organs is practically unlimited. And over time that's exactly what happens. However, once you begin to specialize it becomes easier to adapt what you already have, then to try to start all over from scratch. Which is why whales didn't evolve gills, they simply found a different way to survive in an aquatic environment.
If this is too difficult for you to understand then there's no sense in trying to explain it to you. Simply enjoy the wondrous bliss that comes with self-imposed ignorance.
Okay then. Tell me what actually happened.But it's not a ToE story. It's a naive strawman that creationists tell each other because the don't understand biology. It's no more a part of ToE than nanotubules or graphullerene.
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