I have never seen anything evolve, have you?
The Sea Shell I find up in the mountains is hundreds of millions of years old,,, ,, , looks just like the one you find on the beach today?
I guess it just plum forgot to evolve (lol)
For evolution to be true,
it would still be going-on today in an on-going process,, , meaning, we would still have things crawling out of the ocean in all different stages of evolution. But we dont do we.
Species do not change they never have and there is not one shred of evedence that they do, NOT one.
It is called Stasis, meaning, things simply do not change.
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Responce to first half of post: EVOLUTION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!
Responce to second half: The evidence is overwhelming that species change over time. If you spent one second researching for yourself you would realize this. What a fool...
Species do not change they never have and there is not one shred of evedence that they do, NOT one.
I bet that's why these guys are still easily treated with penicillin derivatives.
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So the next time you have a nice Staph A infection, you'll just have the doc give you some methicillin. That'll fix you right up.
Right, johncody?
The Sea Shell I find up in the mountains is hundreds of millions of years old,,, ,, , looks just like the one you find on the beach today?
And "looks like" to an amateur proves it hasn't changed?
"For evolution to be true,
it would still be going-on today in an on-going process,, , meaning, we would still have things crawling out of the ocean in all different stages of evolution. But we dont do we."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper
089 beat me to it.
johncody been pwned.
At least johncody isn't a young-earther.
In any case, factnet is a ridiculous site that has no broader influence outside of fstdt. can we *please* switch to sites that are more influental?
I guess it just plum forgot to evolve (lol)
nlol
Sure, things evolve.
Back in the bad old days, whenever I got beered up, the ex evolved into something nominally attractive.
Seriously though, it takes many many GENERATIONS for evolution to happen. If you could sit somewhere and watch for thousands of years , you could perceive subtle changes.
No, it is not like the cartoons, where all of a sudden A morphs into B.
Stasis can occur, if there are no environmental pressures to change. This explains why chimpanzees and the other apes are still around: they are, and have been, optimally configured for their environment.
I'm holding part of a fossil ammonite that's about 98 million years old right as I'm typing this. And there aren't any of them left. Even its closest relative, the chambered nautilus, still doesn't look exactly like it. In fact, ammonites evolved a number of different coiled shapes before going extinct. You won't find any of them on the beach, because they're extinct.
Also, I've found a ton of 157-million-year-old fossil shells from belemnites, which were squidlike creatures from the Jurassic period encased in bulletlike shells. Modern squid only have a tiny sliver of a shell left, and you will not find a living squid with a bullet-like shell anywhere.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylonase )
In 1975 a team of Japanese scientists discovered a strain of Flavobacterium living in ponds containing waste water from a factory producing nylon that was capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon-6 manufacture, such as the linear dimer of 6-aminohexanoate, even though those substances are not known to have existed prior to the invention of nylon in 1935. Further study revealed that the three enzymes the bacteria were using to digest the byproducts were novel, significantly different from any other enzymes produced by other Flavobacterium strains (or any other bacteria for that matter), and not effective on any other material other than the man made nylon byproducts. [1] This strain of Flavobacterium, Sp. K172, became popularly known as nylon eating bacteria, and the enzymes were collectively known as nylonase. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylonase )
Put another way, in a mere 40 years (1935 to 1975) or less a new, unique life form evolved to take advantage of a new niche in the environment. "Life will find a way."
Uh... you see, when you see a shell in a fossil bed that looks like a modern shell, all you have is the shell, and often not even as much of it as you think. It is entirely possible that the modern animal inside the shell is more or less identical to the original in physical appearance and size, but that doesn't bring into account various issues of biochemistry and the like (for example, some species of abalone are in a furious rush towards speciation based solely on a family of proteins connected to the reproductive system. These abalones don't look terribly different, but they have significant difficulties in reproduction.)
And how do we know we don't have things crawling out of the ocean? Certain kinds of marine fish and cephalopods can survive for short periods of time outside water, and labs have had serious security concerns regarding octopuses escaping from their tanks and eating other specimens on the other side of the lab. The guy who wrote "The Future Is Wild" and "After Man" didn't pull those gigantic terrestrial cephalopods out of his ass.
If it looked much different, you wouldn't call it a fucking seashell. It'd be something else, something that evolved to be something OTHER than shellfish. Your own method of observation and "reasoning" automatically negates evolution in your own mind.
I have devined, using my demonicly granted witch powers, the problem with all these people!
They have no sense of timescale, none at all! hell, I bet these people don't even believe in continental drift(probably misspelled, but bwatever)
Drs Peter and Rosemary Grant have.
You were saying?
I have never seen a god create the universe, have you?
If the niche a species evolved to fit is still the same now as hundreds of millions of years ago, there's no need to evolve.
Muddskippers:
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You were saying, again?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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