I believe in evolution yes. Micro-evolution, which is the change or improvement, unimprovement within a species. Take all our types of dogs for example; I have no doubt that that is an example of evolution. I do have a problem with macro-evolution, which is the change from species to species. A horse evolving into a fish for example. Show me a skeleton or a fossil showing a horse with fins. There is no fossil evidence for the type of evolution that needed to happen in order to have our many different animals and plants and such.
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I don't ask you to have a PhD in evolutionary biology.
I don't ask you to have a PhD in biology at all.
I don't ask you to have finished high school.
But please, PLEASE have a basic understanding of what you're talking about.
"A horse evolving into a fish for example. Show me a skeleton or a fossil showing a horse with fins. There is no fossil evidence for the type of evolution that needed to happen in order to have our many different animals and plants and such."
Absolutely fucking stupid.
Horses do not, and have never, evolved into fish. That is not what evolutionary theory says at all.
I'm glad you concede on genetic drift. That's downright decent of you.
[Show me a skeleton or a fossil showing a horse with fins.]
First, how about you show me a credible biologist who claims that horses evolved from fish.
"I believe in evolution yes. Micro-evolution, which is the change or improvement, unimprovement within a species. Take all our types of dogs for example; I have no doubt that that is an example of evolution. I do have a problem with macro-evolution, which is the change from species to species."
Please point to the mechanism that prevents millions and millions of "micro" evolutions from becoming a "macro" evolution. Describe it and you'll get a Nobel Prize for sure.
"A horse evolving into a fish for example."
An example of what? A straw man?
"Show me a skeleton or a fossil showing a horse with fins."
Why in the holy hell would you even expect such a thing to exist. A true chimera (not something like the platypus) would completely and utterly disprove evolution, not be evidence for it.
"There is no fossil evidence for the type of evolution that needed to happen in order to have our many different animals and plants and such."
Go retake Bio 101. Quickly.
If we found a fossil showing a horse with fins, that would probably disprove evolution.
Anyway, why wouldn't humans and chimps be an example of micro-evolution? The only real difference between them is the sizes of their parts. And we already know sizes of parts can change naturally (e.g., when a baby grows into an adult).
There is no fossil evidence for the type of evolution that needed to happen in order to have our many different animals and plants and such.
I timed it. It took me exactly 7.4 seconds to turn up a site that presents the fossil evidence for Human evolution---in 3D, no less!
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/#
And here's another site which will go over the fossil record with you, starting in PreCambrian times.
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/
Well you can't just make shit up and expect to find evidence for it you numb nut. No one has ever said that horse evolved into a fish. There is evidence, however, that fish like creatures evolved into mammals which evolved into horses.
On Christianforums, there's a concept called Willtor's Wager, which states that if such a beast were ever to be discovered, creationists would all have to accept evolution and scientists would have to abandon it.
Show me an environment where a horse would benefit by evolving into a fish, and explain what environmental pressures and biological advantages would exist for horse to become a fish.
Until you do that, your horse-fish example is horse-shit.
Dog is not a species, it's a subspecies of wolf, which is on its way to speciation. Just give it a couple of thousand years... Then you'll see a wolf evolving into a dog.
A lot of small steps eventually turn into a mile walk.
1. Why would a horse evolve into a fish? Is there an environmental need? Give it 6 million years (I know that 6 million has 3 more zeros than 6000(a number you guys can't seem to count above)) and the polar caps completely melting then you probably will get your evidence.
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