The theory of evolution does not and cannot explain so much about the universe that we know. For instance, when and how did water evolve? How does it happen that gravity can hold us to the Earth, and at the same time allow us to step up without any trouble? How did it happen that the Earth is spinning at the exact rate that keeps us from feeling that movement?
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You know, she's right. I have absolutely no idea what is holding me to the ground, and yet I can still move. I have no clue about how water evolved. I'd better go look in my science textbook, The Holy Bible...
Oy, vey! Get this through your heads, fundies: The Theory of Evolution has NOTHING to do with cosmology, physics, or chemistry. Water didn't "evolve"; hydrogen and oxygen atoms bonded.
Well she's is right. Evolution cannot explain any of those things, but it doesn't try to either. The fact that she is baffled by those last two things I find disturbing. That is the kind of thing you might here a first grader ask. Once again, someone so ignorant of basic science steps in as an expert on its shortcomings and inadequacies.
Oh, Alejandro, are you kidding?! Man, I'd love to see some of the responses that get printed as follow-ups!
1) "How did water evolve?" That's almost as classic as "why can't we speak monkey".
Crosis - that's why I left the physics side well alone. Batshit insane!
Once more, with feeling:
Crosis,
<<< Winds are caused by pressure gradients, and have little to do with the Earth's rotation. The wind's direction (on large spatial scales) is affected by the Earth's rotation via the Coriolis "force", but its strength is not. >>>
"The theory of plate tectonics does not and cannot explain so much about the universe that we know. For instance, when and how do supernovae occur? How does it happen that electromagnetic waves can propagate through a vacuum, and yet mechanical waves cannot? How did it happen that the universe is expanding at the exact rate that makes all of the redshift values of far-off galaxies as we observe them?"
"How did it happen that the Earth is spinning at the exact rate that keeps us from feeling that movement?"
1. Evolution has absolutely nothing to do with what you're talking about.
1. Water evolved when Juno pissed it all over the place.
2. Demon snot. Just the right adhesive properties. It's all over everything.
3. Be glad we're on a round planet and not a cube. Everything would be constantly tumbling uphill or downhill, and the demon snot isn't strong enough for that.
2 pairs of hydrogen atoms combining with 1 pair of oxygen atoms to form 2H2O - shortened to H2O for the school kids.
water is H2O, so hydrogen and oxygen. Burn hydogen and you get water.
you evolved muscles in earths gravity. This means you can walk. Run up 10 flights of steps and see how much work is involved.
inertia.
biology /= cosmology
Now go play in traffic.
"The theory of evolution does not and cannot explain so much about the universe that we know."
How does your car (really any car, or train, or plane, or any other vehicle you are travelling in) after accelerating or decelerating have always the right velocity that you don’t feel the movement? Even if that velocity is different every time? Maybe you should think about that for a while.
“The theory of evolution does not and cannot explain so much about the universe that we know.”
"For instance, when and how did water evolve?”
“How does it happen that gravity can hold us to the Earth, and at the same time allow us to step up without any trouble?”
"How did it happen that the Earth is spinning at the exact rate that keeps us from feeling that movement?”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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