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03-22-2006, 04:07 AM #11
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People are from outer space?
I am no more an "evolutionist" than I am a "gravitationist" or a "heliocentrist". I am just recognizing the facts discovered by modern science. Just because you have not observed the evidence and scrutinized it with proper logic does not mean that the overwhelming body of evidence isn't there. There is no doubt that evolution happened. Anybody who's ever seriously studied the fossil record and the distribution of fossils on this planet, or the molecular structures of various species of animals, could possibly deny this fact. It's not immediately obvious—like Einstein's theories you have to do a little studying to find out how evolution works and why alternative explanations were abandoned.
Originally Posted by C4nn4Bliss
You say that the processes behind life on this planet are unexplainable. Why do you start out with this assumption? We actually do have a lot of clues that show how life developed over billions of years, and there is information we can draw from this. Some things about life can be known, and one thing that we do know is that animals change over time.
Why should any animal stay the same? Does anything in this universe stay the same? No, everything is transient, everything changes. Nothing is permanent. That includes the genetic code of living organisms. Genetic changes manifest themselves as physical changes in the body of the organism. Sometimes those changes increase the chances of survival of that organism, and the offspring of that organism will have a greater chance of survival. Over long periods of time these greater chances will add up and that genetic change will spread to the whole species. Whether or not a change is beneficial is dependent on the organism's environment.
If one group of organisms is geographically separated from another, and they are unable to interbreed, they will be in different environments and will go on separate paths of genetic change. Over time, these changes add up to the point that the two groups can no longer interbreed and there are two species.
The origins of modern life forms are knowable, at least to an extent, because we have real concrete evidence to analyze. If you want to convince me that this analysis is incorrect, you're going to have to present to me a better alternative analysis of the fossil record and the body of molecular genetic evidence. Just saying "God did it" or "the aliens did it" explains nothing, especially when you don't have any real concrete evidence to back up the claim, and you have no explanation for where that form of intelligent life came from.
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