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- 21 Feb. 2013 06:56pm #41
- 21 Feb. 2013 06:59pm #42
For simplicity's sake I called them myths but no matter what you call them, there's no way to disprove them. Just because monkey bones from 200,000 years ago bear resemblance to a modern human skeleton doesn't disprove any theory.
Also, I'm not trying to disprove anything. I'm simply making a point that just because certain people think it's true, it doesn't mean other people have to say that my beliefs aren't factual.
- 21 Feb. 2013 07:57pm #43
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It's not a debatable issue. Evolution is a proven scientific fact. We're not speculating about monkey bones. You can observe evolution through historic records, experiments, and test DNA. Evolution happened and is happening and has nothing to do with religion.
Also regardless what you call it, simply making a statement and not being able to disprove it does not make that statement more valid. It just makes it a baseless statement with no evidence to support it.
- 21 Feb. 2013 08:17pm #44
Reminds me of the Connecticut school shooting conspiracy theoryy
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- 21 Feb. 2013 11:01pm #47
Yeah I would have to agree with Coffin that it is demonstrated fact that atleast SOME degree of evolution happens to every species. It is the law of the land, you adapt to live in specific conditions or you die.
Hence why cacti can survive in deserts, why owls are nocturnal, why bats use supersonic, etc.
- 21 Feb. 2013 11:02pm #48
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- 21 Feb. 2013 11:43pm #50
ITT: No one here actually knows a lick about Science and just like hearing themselves talk.
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Origin of the domestic dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you understand dogs are domesticated, you actually believe in evolution.
That's actually evolution we've had a part in creating.
In fact there is a current extremely good example of evolution at work through selectively breeding foxes.
I'm not sure if you've heard about it, but there is/was a Russian Science experiment that was dedicated domesticate foxes.
Breeding them based on their temperament. (Originally so foxes used in the fur trade would be easier to handle.) They bred the non aggressive foxes with each other, while breeding the highly aggressive foxes with each other.
Each generation produced more docile and more aggressive foxes respectively.
The amazing thing is as these foxes were domesticated into more docile creatures, their features actually began to change and take on a more dog like form.
Some of them obtained curly tails, floppy ears, and a more dog like bark.
History
This is all documented and actually really interesting. I'm thinking the problem might be you don't really understand what evolution is.
If you get a chance I suggest reading this:
HowStuffWorks "How Natural Selection Works"
It explains it pretty well.
To make things extremely simple, evolution is basically passing down traits and reforming those traits through generations.
And as those things are reformed and change, they eventually evolve into the things we know today.
Like how birds are related to dinosaurs, even though they don't seem like they would be. =P
Or even less extreme things like eye color.
The reason being is it helps those animals survive or reproduce, including us. We're even still evolving.
It's not like they suddenly "change" into these things, it can take millions of years.
Or be relatively quick if you count things like selectively breeding for traits in dogs.
(But that's a whole other topic in it's self.)
Relation also doesn't really mean like your cousin or something. Or at least not in the way I believe you're thinking.
So you really can't deny evolution it's self exists. The only argument I can really see were to be admitting evolution existed but not believing in human evolution because we haven't found the definitive "missing link". Even still there is so much evidence in other creatures and in our own history that it's almost nitpicking at that point. =P
Personally I don't see why religion and science can't both live with each other. I don't believe in anything mind you but who's to say that god(s) didn't create evolution?
I mean that seems more reasonable to me than denying it all together. =P
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All hail kitty pig.
- 22 Feb. 2013 06:26am #58
- 22 Feb. 2013 03:53pm #59
Because even denying human evolution is willful ignorance.
- 22 Feb. 2013 06:36pm #60
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- 23 Feb. 2013 01:52am #63
A heated argument. If my english class were still doing these controversies.
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