Hi,
You are in error ma'am---I am not different from my parents----. We are identical in our chromosomes----only due to a disease that may change the genetic sequence---we maybe different---but that is not evolution.
So what you are explaining is that evolution is taking place in parallel everywhere and is constant in its application and that is why we are not able to see the change.
So----then in the long run---Barnacle goose maybe a reality---hehn.
Nope - doesn't work that way. That's a common misconception, the last line of your post. Usually it is termed the "crocoduck" argument instead of barnacle-goose, but with the same meaning. That notion, of seeing hybrid creatures if evolution is true, has been thoroughly debunked by many. So I won't attempt to do it myself, instead I'll just post a few links that explain it. In fact, that notion is now used by scientists to ridicule creationists and other evolution-deniers, to make the point that they do not understand the theory of evolution.
Crocoduck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NeuroLogica Blog » The Crocoduck!
Crocoduck - RationalWiki
Crocoduck - Iron Chariots Wiki
So what you are explaining is that evolution is taking place in parallel everywhere and is constant in its application and that is why we are not able to see the change.
The reason we are not able to see the change is because it happens way too slow for us to observe. Human life span is about 120 years at most. Societies started forming only about 10-15000 years back, with the invention of agriculture. But the modern human species has been around for at least 100,000 years.
However, evolution can be and has been observed in fast reproducing life forms, like bacteria. Read about Richard Lenski's demonstration of evolution in bacteria, by meticulously observing some 20,000 generations.
Actually ma'am it was Aristotle's prime mover notion that laid the bedrock for the cosmological argument or the 'first cause' argument. And St. Aquinas expanded on it or rather refined it. So did Rousseau and other philosophers including some Muslim philosophers.
Yes, that's correct. My mistake.
short answer NO.
i am doctor and most of my colleagues belonging to different religions simply cannot fathom the fact that such a complex body can form simply by chance and trail and error from a single cell.
Nobody has ever said that the human body formed by chance. That's another popular misconception. Evolution has a very well understood mechanism. In fact, it is the very antithesis of chance. Please go through these links:
Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution
747 Junkyard argument - Iron Chariots Wiki
Evolution is not a theory of chance - Iron Chariots Wiki
My forefathers were not apes. Maybe yourss ....
We were not descended from apes - we
are apes.
You are yourself an African ape. And that is not meant as an insult, it happens to be true. So is he, and so am I. To be specific, humans are one species of 'hominidae', otherwise called "great apes". The other great apes are orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees. The other kind of apes, the lesser aes, include the gibbon and other Asian apes.
From WP:
Ape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The
Hominidae include
orangutans,
gorillas,
chimpanzees, and
humans.
[1][2] Alternatively, the family is collectively described as the great apes.
[3][4][5][6] There are two extant species in the orangutan genus (
Pongo), two species in the gorilla genus (
Gorilla), two species in the chimpanzee genus (
Pan), and a single extant species
Homo sapiens in the human genus (
Homo).
If you meant non human apes only, like chimpanzees, then neither he nor you nor any human is descended from them. Humans descended from homo erectus. But humans and non human apes share a common ancestor. It lived about 7 million years ago, and its name is Australopithecus.
BTW, all life forms share a common ancestor, if you go back far enough. But the last common ancestor we have with any non human species, is the common ancestor of all great apes, the Australopithecus. 7 million years is recent, on an evolutionary timescale.
if evolution theory is right, why is there only one intelligent species out of millions ??
Why not? Why would you expect something like human intelligence to evolve in several species? Evolution does not have any predetermined goals - it's not like evolution happens so that eventually organisms become intelligent. Evolution just takes its course, the best course that is required to survive. As far as survival strategies go, human intelligence is not that great - many non human animals and plants thrive in abundance, without intelligence.
You have that common misunderstanding, that evolution keeps making creatures better and better, and you also assume that intelligence is the best thing out there. That's a very human centric view of looking at it.
Neanderthal for example went extinct around 40,000 years ago and existed with modern humans for some time!.
Neanderthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Europeans share some genes with Neanderthals. It has been demonstrated recently that Neanderthals and Homo Sapien sapiens interbred in some places. Fascinating, isn't it?
Archaic human admixture with modern humans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
well, not our sad state, as i was quoting american doctors!
if you have tried for USMLE / USA residency you would know that a well know doctor in kaplanmed quotes" how likely it is that lump of steal falling down a mountain ends up into a Boeing 747"
there is a reason why its called theory.
p.s
i know indians are the smartest in world.
It has already been said a few times in this thread why it is so wrong to say "only a theory".
