If evolution were to have taken place as claimed then we surely would have the ability to fly. This would give us better selections and abilities for food and mates and resources etc.. The only way we have been able to fly is thru the use of our intelliect and NOT unaided as even a flying insect can.. I can't imagine Evolution exculting beneficial characteristics does not make any since does it?
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No, that makes absolutely no sense, and has nothing to do with evolutionary theory. You spouted off nonsense, then commented how stupid your own point was, just a few steps more, you might be able to graduate middle school yet!
No, you are correct, that does not "make any since". I don't know how anything could make "since".
Oh, and evolution does not work that way. But you know that, right? You're just kidding, right? Good, then I don't have to lose more faith in humanity.
does not make any since does it?
Well, sense nothing of what you have said, made any since , I guess we should stop right there.
Just because you think flying is a beneficial characteristic doesn't mean evolution does.
We can't fly.
Parakeets can.
Now tell me, who rules the world? Humans or the Parakeets? That's right asshole, Humans. Big brains win out over ability to fly.
Well evolution gave us thumbs and brains, which gave us tools, which gave us technology, which gave us the F-22 Raptor, which can kick the ass of any bird.
This is the same yahoo who on a separate thread stated if evolution was true, we would have really long arms to reach fruit in trees. Or wings and the strength of a lion. He then went on to try and use the giraffe as proof evolution is wrong.
This is what religion does. It kills critical thinking.
Tell you what.
When you hollow out your own bones, lose the bodyfat you need to survive the winter, and transform your arms from useful tool-manipulating appendages into clown-sized platforms for wing-membranes, THEN you can talk about "beneficial characteristics."
"If evolution were to have taken place as claimed then we surely would have the ability to fly."
Uh... no. We wouldn't.
"This would give us better selections and abilities for food and mates and resources etc.."
There's an energy trade off. You either get to fly or you get a large brain. You can't have both. Nor can you have a large brain and any of the other numerous stupid attributes you idiots think humans should have.
"The only way we have been able to fly is thru the use of our intelliect and NOT unaided as even a flying insect can.."
Your point? You seem to have made mine for me however.
"I can't imagine Evolution exculting beneficial characteristics does not make any since does it?"
What the holy hell is "exculting"? Beneficial, by the way, doesn't mean "way cool and totally awesome, dude!" Beneficial, in a biological sense, is pretty much anything that helps you survive in your environment long enough to reproduce. I fail to see how wings on humans, or any other type of flight, would be classified as "beneficial" given that definition.
"I can't imagine Evolution exculting beneficial characteristics does not make any since does it? "
Something here doesn't make any sense, and I'm pretty sure it's not evolution.
It takes an incredible amount of evolution to grant the ability to fly in mammals as large as humans. The process would have to have started when we were much smaller, so that smaller mutations could have a larger effect on our bodies, large enough to be favored by natural selection. So no, evolution could not grant us flight.
On the other hand, God could do it in a heartbeat, with no repercussions, because he's cool like that. Why doesn't he?
I think I know why he doesn't.
We surely would not have the ability to fly, and we don't. There isn't anything in our genetic code to allow for wings, and being able to fly serves no evolutionary purpose -- we have automobiles, planes and boats that negate any need for heightened speed and agility. If you can't understand why technology actually stunts our physical evolution (though it stimulates intellectual selection), you clearly don't understand evolution as a whole.
Stop pretending that you know anything about biology and go back to reading your bible. Your ass is polluting both the gene pool and the pool of intellectual knowledge.
If cars were designed as claimed than they surely would have the ability to fly. This would give cars much more room for manuevering, parking, etc..
"I can't imagine Evolution exculting beneficial characteristics does not make any since does it?"
No, but evolution does exclude characteristics that would require at least 1000 times our normal power output to even do anything.
Also, I spend the vast majority of my day indoors, wings wouldn't do shit anyway, especially not wings large enough to hold me in the air.
But you can fly, DC, you just haven't tried. Go up on your roof. Then jump. You'll fly, I guarantee it. (P. S. It helps if you tie a dishtowel around your neck as a cape.)
Because flying would force us to either lose our brains or be reduced to incredible frailty, probably both.
On the other hand, flying would provide us little advantage. Crocodiles don't give you enough warning, and few other predators will trifle with aware humans. Even in the Paleolithic, lions would fear spearmen. So it wouldn't help us be protected significantly.
We can come up with other ways to get high-hanging fruit (humans are generally pretty good at climbing trees compared to other mammals; we can lift a lighter person up to nearly double our effective height then share the fruit; or we can pick up a long stick and hit the fruit and catch it falling - works better if you have something to catch it in, other people to catch it, or if it's a tough fruit that doesn't bruise, which do exist in the tropics).
Long-distance mobility wouldn't be very useful; for most of our evolutionary history we were hunter-gatherers, who can actually travel at a pretty good rate. Also, as tropical-originating omnivores, we didn't need to migrate vast distances with the winter.
So what would we gain from flying?
If evolution were to have taken place as claimed then we surely would have the ability to fly
We do. See that giant thing flying through the sky, it's called an airplane.
I always take my science advice from some hack on MySpace who spells "Through" "thru", "Intellect" "intelliect", makes up words (exculting) and spells "Sense" "since".
You should be writing for Nature, genius.
yeah because evolution means that we will get wings, and since we dont have our wings it means that EVILution is fake.
but then again why hasnt gawd given me wings either? I KNEW IT! GOD IS FAKE TOO
so where am I going to get my wings from????
If evolution were to have taken place and we had the ability to fly, we'd also be a lot smaller, due to the amount of energy needed to lift larger objects in flight, we'd also be less intelligent due to the sheer amount of energy needed to run the human brain and how little energy that would leave for flying, we'd also have different rib cage structure to work the wings and possibly feather to help with the steering and so on.
In other words, we'd be birds. Therefore proving evolution.
"If evolution were to have taken place as claimed then we surely would have the ability to fly."
No, because, as others have pointed out, there was never a reason for primates to learn how to fly. They were too capable of surviving without the ability to fly. Plus, if we had wings, we wouldn't have opposable thumbs, and then how would we crack open a cold one?
Humans have evolved to the point that our minds have allowed us to construct aeroplanes.
We can therefore fly faster than any bird alive, and even into outer space.
Hmmm. Interesting hypothesis. For myself I'd prefer to keep those two hands for a good many reasons, but if you would rather trade them in for wings, go right ahead. And I'll make myself a nice dinner while you are snapping up flies and grasshoppers and whatever else you can eat without arms and hands. Does that make "since" to you?
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