Oicurmtoyoy wrote on Dec 20th, 2010 at 1:05pm:Are you telling me you need proof of natural selection? It obviously happens, you can see it anywhere. The fittest animals survive, obviously, and then they get to mate. Animals are also seen to select mates with certain qualities, even humans do it. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out. Pretending that things don't exist isn't the same as disproving them.
1/ Creatures come into being: they start to exist.
2/ They reproduce and pass down traits in genetic lineages that have foundational genetics that makes them the creatures they are. Mutations may occur, which change this foundation. The HAVE been observed.
3/ They remain the same genetic lineage creature for as long as they are here, with minor variations that include developing stronger immune systems, digestive abilities, tolerance to heat, cold, larger or smaller bodies, etc. These can accumulate, creating more noticeable changes.They never change into a whole new foundationally different genetic lineage, because lineages aren't changeable. Rather, a lineage diverges at parts, taking different paths, the more successful of which survive.
4/ They either go extinct or are still here in the same genetic lineage with varying morphology's depending on how successful their original shape was. This is shown by the fossilized evidence we have found for all living creatures, some of which have changed, some of which have remained the same, due to their success.
5/ There are trails of transition into any new creatures on this planet that vary off the foundational genetic structures at the start of a particular genetic lineage. They are shown in the fossil record, the data being gathered from the fossils' morphology.
These are based on logical deduction, not speculation, as you claim.
2x+5=11
If I were to say X is 3, would that be based on my opinion, or based on reasoning?
The fossil record shows plenty of trails leading from one species to another, you just deny it.
I don't recall anyone saying the our ancestors from 10 generations ago were of a different species. They are human, because they can reproduce with other humans.
The Camel and Lama can produce a viable offspring, because they have the same number of chromosomes. They are in the same genus. they are both "Camelus". The fact that they are different species, but interbreed-able is an oddity, and technically, they should be classified as different sub-species, but it dosen't disprove evolution. Evolution form one species to another dosen't necessarily happen every 2 million years, all that is stated is that it can happen.
Furthermore, there are plenty of species, like the horse and donkey, that can't produce viable offspring.
The word species has been settled upon, the debate is only about certain organisms, which may or may not fit within the bracket. I've never heard of the word "species" meaning anything other than what it means now.
The facts do fit, you have yet to name one fact that dosen't fit. If the facts really don't fit, then you should probably show me at least one or two facts that don't fit, explain it too. I don't see how an upright man found at that point dosen't fit, so you'll have to explain it. Primitive humans should be found in the past, there isn't really any kind of contradiction there.
The video is also flawed.
Fossils aren't rare, but fossilization is. The fact that they are numerous dosen't disprove this, because fossilization has happened many times. The possibility of getting a 12 on a pair of dice is 1 in 36, but if you roll the dice millions of times, you're bound to get plenty of twelves. Similarly, trillions upon trillions of organisms have died since the dawn of life, so of course there would be many fossils.
Also, the materials they are dating would have started "aging", for lack of a better word, when the fossilization process first started. In other words, they are measuring the rock that replaced the bone, but they're measuring how long it's been since said rock replaced the bone. Evolution: "that theory which sees in the history of all things organic and inorganic a development from simplicity to complexity, a gradual advance from a simple or rudimentary condition to one that is more complex and of a higher character." Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language. You are obviously living proof that people will fall for anything if there is enough social coercion and a need to believe in something.
I don't think I can help you to get free of this, because you are closed minded and think this feculence is real.
Breeding, killing, environmental conditions have NEVER cause any creatures to violate their genetic structures.
You are under the delusion that life has no organic organization nor structures. That is is some how magically "fluid" and changeable by some mystical causes. There is no evidence of any changes from a very simple life form to a complex life form. The opposite is true. There is only shown degradation to all genomes, gene function loss, and a general weakening of all creatures.
You are only speaking in religious rhetoric. You are so lost in this ideology, you don't even understand that you are doing it.
Opinions, religious slogans, axioms, and belief is NOT evidence.
You think this is logical, because you want to believe, not because it is logical.
When you have real physical irrefutable evidence, come and show it to me. But I don't think you even know what I am asking.
If 70% of the "mutations" are negative and reduce fitness, cause gene loss and genetic diseased then the NET is always de-evolution towards weaker, sicker, and eventual extinction as is shown in all evidence.