GoodScienceForYou wrote on Jan 12th, 2011 at 11:29am: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.
There are several definition of evolution.
The most common used to inflict this religious ideolgy that humans evolved from simple life and that this magical idea is real; That any change to any organisim is evolution. That is utter nonsense and "painting with a huge broad brush".
I much prefer to eleminate all the irrelevant defintions and go with the real one.
However the only defintion that counts is the original: 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.
Bacteria ,nor Virus have ever evolved. The adapt to live by adjusting to exist.
In order to show simple life evolving into complex, you must show that any single celled creature has added new cells with new functions that add more fitness and have an aim at a more complex life form.
Not one virus has ever added any cells and there are no samples of this evolution after all this time. We don't ever see any 2 or 3 celled virus.
This magical idea of evolution adding complexity is the problem.
The only thing we see in human evolution or any complex creature is genetic degradation that leads to an eventual extinction.
Viral mutations are the number one cause of human genetic degradation to this point.
The next is toxic chemcials, then come radiation.
There are over 1000 deleterious muations found in each human on average and 3 more are added each generation lately.
We are rapidly degrading from human behavior that promotes diseases, (viral changes) Virus attacks us on the cell level and causes cancer, and the regular deleterious mutations.