I keep hearing about how wonderful evolution is, and I suppose it can be used as a teaching aid. But other than that, what difference has it really made. How is your life different, and how is the world we live in different because of Darwin's theory? No one really even paid all that much attention to it for the first 100 years. Just a few people here and there.
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Yes, those simple minded biologists, anatomists, physicians, bacteriologists, virologists, paleontolgists, geologists, et al. are simply misled fools, who have made no appreciable impact on our daily lives. Praise Jayzus, I should convert.
The Poincaré Conjecture may have recently been proved. I imagine JohnR7 whining, "But what difference does it make to your life? How is your life different?"
And yet I can never get a straight answer when I ask "How is your life different, and how is the world we live in different because of gay marriage?"
Odds are, you will get sick at some point and require antibiotics. When you do, you will learn first-hand what evolution has done for you.
It was only the ignorant and the stupid who paid little attention, John, remember, like when you were in school?
Aside from the examples already given by others in the field of medicine, evolution has not really had that much of an impact on the world. The sun still rises in the morning, sets in the evening, and peoples lives pretty much are unaffected by evolution. We work, we eat, we sleep, et. al. regardless of whether we are here due to evolution or some god that put us here some 6000 years ago as your Babble says it does. has had an effect, although not the only one, in assessing my view of the world in which I live. Since I can think for myself, I have reveiwed the results of scientific research, studied the Bible, and have come to my OWN conclussion that religion of any kind is nothing more than myth and superstition. Therefore, I reject any said religion and get more rest because I can now get 2 more hours of sleep on Sunday mornings.
Even if it doesn't improve the quality of my life, I prefer truth over a fairy tale that essentially tells me I'm automatically unworthy of existence and need to vapor-lock myself to some omnipotent being's insecure ass.
Gosh, he's right. Evolutionary theory is only the best explanation we have for why things are the way they are in the life sciences. It allows us to make predictions about how things work, and allows us to create technology that can improve our lifestyles and lifespans.
the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge is all the reason we need. but if this idiot doesn't think evolution has made a difference, then maybe he shouldn't take antibiotics and our understanding of the pathology of infectious diseases. also, with the rise of genetic algorithms in design and industrial sciences, its only a matter of time before some household appliance is designed using natural selection and mutation
Right, and of what possible use is E=mc^2, anyway? They're just letters and numbers, of no possible interest to anyone outside of a few crazy mathematicians. Oh, and that formula also happens to sum up the greatest source of power that humans have ever successfully harnessed. Like it matters to people such as JohnR7.
A lot of you are saying things that are not related at all to evolution. He's not questioning the scientific method or science in general (though he might at some other time) so citing e=mc^2 is useless. In general, evolution hasn't really changed the daily routines of people; it has, however, expanded the realm of science in other fields such as evolutionary psychology and biology.them instead of throwing unrelated science terms at fundies just as they throw stalin and naziism at us. You don't want them calling 'Dogwin' on us, do you?
Okay, offput, point well taken. But the points people made about how evolution has, in fact, DIRECTLY affected (and even shaped) modern life still stand beautifully, even without such items as my relativity metaphor. Heck, without modern medicine, much of which is informed by an understanding of evolution, many of us would not be here; that's about as thorough a way of "affecting" one's life as you can get!
Evolution made us what we are. Without evolution, there would still only be single-celled life in that primordial soup.
I've old enough to have had measles, rubella and mumps and a couple of the other "childhood diseases" that are now vaccinated against. Perhaps one of them made me sterile and childless...
Darwin wasn't the only one thinking along those lines, and people did pay attention to it, even in his lifetime.
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what difference has it really made
It's said there are a few people in the world who are immune to HIV.
The potential for not only vaccines but Gene Therapy-based cures based on what these people have evolved into could be worth hundreds of billions if not trillions to the pharamaceutical companies.
And not just against HIV.
Did your 'God' make those particular people - with a bigotry-obliterating cure in their DNA - like that, John Arse7...?! [/mega-paradox]
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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