i just wanna know how certain people can believe that a tiny single-celled micro-organism could have "evolved" into the extremely complex, free-thinking people we are now.. and if we did "evolve" like that then why are some male and some people female? we would have evolved the same way
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I just wanna how certain people can take one glance at the theory of evolution, not study it at all, and then rattle off some smartass comment like this, convinced that it's a completely new, earth-shattering argument that no scientist has ever considered before.
Cells splitting produce clones with a possible random mutation.
Sexuality produces organisms from a combination of DNA, half from each parent. Every offspring is unique, whether they have any mutations or not.
"i just wanna"
Stopped reading there.
"how certain people can believe that a tiny single-celled micro-organism could have "evolved" into the extremely complex, free-thinking people we are now"
Gradually. Like erosion. Small, miniscule changes adding up over time.
"why are some male and some people female"
Because at one point in the collective evolution of organisms, they developed the ability to reproduce sexually in addition to asexually, and, due to the fact that sexual reproduction helped to vary the genome of the children from the parents more than it would if they just passed down the genome intact via mitosis, sexual reproduction became favored in certain organisms and furthered their evolution.
Actually, that is how sex first evolved, where there was just one sex. They are called hermaphrodites and include worms and snails. That is how when mutations made them lose half of their reproductive system they could still reproduce. And yes, having half of it is an advantage because it allows for greater specialization and better allocation of resources.
“i just wanna know how certain people can believe that a tiny single-celled micro-organism could have "evolved" into the extremely complex, free-thinking people we are now..”
Um, I’m not afraid of complexity or deep time, and i understand how tiny incremental changes can accumulate. That’s how.
"and if we did "evolve" like that then why are some male and some people female? we would have evolved the same way”
Man, the biology unit in your high school science class was way over your head, wasn’t it?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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