An amoeba wouldn't know WHAT to evolve, let alone HOW
Big Bangs DESTROY evereything - they CAN'T create matter
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MrVersatile48 is indeed versatile; he can spout nonsense in myriad ways, on multiple levels.
In fact, I'd say he's quite special -- as in the "short bus" kind of "special."
And now, to actually address the issue instead of just insulting the poor guy:
(1) Evolution has nothing to do with what the organism wants, except in the case of sexual selection (which may or may not take place at the microbial level, but I kind of doubt it). Natural selection drives evolution with nobody making choices about anything. Just because you don't understand it, don't like it, or can't accept it does not make the theory wrong.
(2) The Big Bang was the outrushing of all matter to create and fill the universe (and not really a "bang" as such -- that was a derisive term given to the theory by a disgruntled rival theorist) according to that theory, there was no matter already out here to BE destroyed. I'll admit I've never heard anyone ask about that possibility before, so I don't know how the theory might address it, but it seems that would have been covered somewhere.
~David D.G.
1) Evolution isn't directed by the organisms themselves. NO ONE is telling an amoeba what to evolve or how - the DNA mutates, and if the creature survives and reproduces, it gets passed on.
2) Trying to apply intuition to physics at the extremes (singularities, black holes, quantum mechanics, and relativity, for instance) just doesn't work. Physics is pretty weird at the extremes.
1) Evolution happens to creatures; it's not something that organisms do.
2) "Big Bang" is an inaccurate term created by a journalist to deride the theory. It didn't actually involve an explosion, in any meaningful sense of the word.
ETA: Appearantly, it was coined by Hoyle. My bad. I was thinking it was coined by someone else. Nonetheless, it was coined to deride the theory.
Anyhow, the poster is still a moron.
The term "Big Bang" was coined by Fred Hoyle in a radio series he did in the '50s.
Although he championed a rival theory, he always denied that "Big Bang" was intended to be derisory.
(I have the book he published, based on the radio series, so I can quote-mine it if anyone's interested.)
When something explodes, isn't the matter forced outwards by the explosion? To some extent, the "explosion" idea seems correct; little bit of matter explodes, the exact "item," ie the bit of matter is destroyed by the process, and the effects on surrounding objects is irrelevant here because there WERE no other objects. (Of course, it's a quarter to 3 right now, and I'm no expert. I'm taking Physics 101 right now, but have only been through a few classes. Since I'm no fundie, I can admit that this is just speculation from a non-expert.)
And what does the "short bus" signify? What's the connection between people who are less, um, mentally apt and busses that are less long?
<<< And what does the "short bus" signify? What's the connection between people who are less, um, mentally apt and busses that are less long? >>>
In most school districts (at least that I've seen, and the fact that this insult seems to be semi-universal indicates it's true elsewhere as well), special-ed students who don't want to (or can't) take the "real" bus get picked up by a short bus.
"When something explodes, isn't the matter forced outwards by the explosion? To some extent, the "explosion" idea seems correct; little bit of matter explodes, the exact "item," ie the bit of matter is destroyed by the process, and the effects on surrounding objects is irrelevant here because there WERE no other objects"
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist, cosmologist, or even a physics major. I'm a lowly general science major.
Sorry, but this is not an accurate description. It was not, in fact, matter which was forced outwards in the big bang. The "big bang" was the beginning of the inflationary state of the universe. In other words, spacetime is what expanded, not the matter in the universe (which, at that time, was more akin to energy than matter, anyhow).
OK, thanks for the Big Bang corrections. Like I said, I'm no physics expert, and don't claim to be.
And at my school, everyone took short busses to get there, since people came from a wide variety of different places, meaning one school bus route was not feasible, plus the mass transit system was lacking and driver's licenses/parents who could drive students in were rare. I think I might have been able to guess the "short bus" phrase, though.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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