I. Wikipedia has an entire page devoted to the origin of sexual reproduction. On YouTube, cdk007 has made an excellent video on the same topic. You should read it and watch it.
II. Not exactly sure what you mean by "conscience". Do you mean morality? If you were to read Question 10 on the free PDF on the top ten myths surrounding evolution (available online), the answer is there. Continued.
To answer questions on stars/elements: During the BigBang mainly hydrogen was formed (plus a little helium and traces of lithium). The hydrogen aggregated into stars which fuse H into He. Most stars die by becoming red giants then collapsing to white dwarfs. Very large stars collapse under their own gravity and form a super nova. At this stage the energy of gravitational collapse causes fusion of Iron into heavier elements. This means that all elements >Fe were formed in a supernova collapse.
Do you know where you should go and ask these questions? To nobel laureates in the sciences, they're ALL "evolutionists". Well, basically ALL scientists are "evolutionists" too, so asking any scientist would maybe be better than putting it on YouTube
@winterstellar And when I say "all scientists", I'm of course talking about modern, living scientists. Not some ancient guy like the christians like to mention no matter how ancient and irrelevant they are
9. Why can't matter, energy, and space time be eternal? We don't know where it came from. Possibly popped into existence.
10. "Information" is ill-defined. The best scientific definition of information is Shannon information, which corresponds nearly exactly to the length of the string examined.
I think you WANT to ask, "What is a single obviously beneficial mutation which provides some new function to an organism?"
HIV immunity in humans, nylonase production in flavobacterium.
8. Fossilization does not require rapid burial or immediate pressure. They simply require the need to be protected from rot and other organisms, and when they are later buried they will fossilize. Lakes which bones fall into or tar pits are good at collecting bones, which is why bones elsewhere are very rare. Moreover, a flood would be very bad at preserving fossils or burying them.
6. Elements CAN be fused past iron. However, it exhausts more energy than is produced. Stars, however, produce plenty of excess energy that can be used to fuse iron. Additionally, supernovas would cause instantaneous fusion of many heavy elements.
7. Stars need only hydrogen to form. All other elements appear to have been produced by hydrogen or helium.
3. Emotions are each controlled by specific portions of the brain (such as the Amygdala regulating fear) and most emotions have beneficial results. Even animals have emotions. These are just patterns of behavior in response to certain types of stimuli.
4. Proteins can form without RNA and DNA, and vice versa. It is just unlikely and energy consuming.
5. The KT boundary contains iridium (a lot of it) which is found almost solely in meteors. Oh, and it covers the entire Earth.
First: Don't call ANYONE an "evolutionist." Call them a scientist. Scientists agree with evolution. People who do not agree with evolution are rarely scientists.
1. Good question. No one is exactly sure. It may be that diploid Eukaryotes used a second set of DNA to repair their first, and they managed to attain a similar organism's copy of DNA.
2. The consciousness is a product of more complex neurological pathways. It is most likely an artifact of greater intelligence.
Very smart kid! Kudos! Here are the answers: 1) You can't! 2) You can't! 3) It can't! 4) The amino acid came first! (Idk beyond that...) 5) A layer of iridium in the sediment may suggest this, but does not prove it! 6) You can't! 7) Neither! 8) Precisely! (Cause bones decay faster than they'd like us to believe...) 9) From a previous Big Crunch! (Which came from another bang, which came from another crunch, etc, etc...) 10) Nope!
1)I'm no expert but I would guess through processes/mutations that enrich the genome, downs syndrome is one of those.
2) This is just bullshit,some animals clearly show feeling. Why are baby animals usually cute (mammals that is)...to invoke sympathy among other feelings, is that not conscience?
3)Motions are complex chemical processes in the brain....single cell organisms are also capable of complex chemical processes...so what's the problem.
@RafnHeimisson ...the answer is just...the one that came before. If the chicken is older than the egg it probably came before.
5) It probably wasn't just a meteor, although there are a few very large craters one in the Mexico at the yucatan peninsula. There are also clear evidences of super volcanic eruptions.
6) Wrong but the fusion is not exothermic so the process needs more energy than it gives.
7) The hydrogen (and other elements) was formed in the big bang so the elements came before.
9) This is actually a more difficult one. No one can really know what was before the big bang because there was no universe. Although there are theories too complex to talk about here (like brans predicted by string theory). however there is nothing that indicates that energy is not eternal. Matter is of course just one from of energy. Is time eternal...? The arrow of time is indicated by entropy so you could argue that if entropy reaches a maximum there.
9. I truthfully cannot come up with an answer, however we both know that matter cannot be created or destroyed. So with this law in mind we can correctly assume that it is eternal. Time, through Albert Einstein's theory is relative and energy is simply MC^2. In respect to mass being eternal, we can assume this is also eternal.
10. There is the new arsenic based cells that were found. Also there are 3000+ documented at ncbi. com
1. With the theory of evolution there comes the theory of devolution, the idea that if there is lack of diversity a species can die (anti incest). A-sexual organisms need to find other ways to spread genes or else they would die, through this necessity sexual reproduction evolves.
2. Some would argue animals do have consciences. In you own a dog, and it bites you it would either run away or lick your wound... but I am no expert on this field. I suggest you read Marc Bekoff's books for info.
3. Emotions are not a new development, it can be said to have come about during the early ordovician period, we however can be sure it was present in the carboniferous period. This is using emotion in it's simplified context.
4.The protein... seeing as one can create protein with covalent bonds and some elemental compounds while DNA/RNA require ionic and hydrogen bondings.
5. There is a crater in South America dated in the correct time period, and that has little to do with evolution.
6. This has even less to do with evolution. Evolution does not mean non christian science, but I will humor you. The Big Bang theory states that the elements along with their antimatter equivalent were already present.
7. If you are referencing Big Bang theory, it is the elements. Seeing as there were no stars before this.
Note: I am not a supporter of the Big Bang Theory though I support evolution. I do, however, believe in learning before deciding, so I do have knowledge on the Theory.
8. Animals do not require a quick burial in order to fossilize, just a substantial amount of pressure, not "lots". If there was a flood, however, there would be:
No plankton, coral, crustaceans, and fish (other than bull sharks) because of the fusion of fresh and salt waters and the change in depth.
In the end Bull sharks and mammalian predators would be 100% of sea life.
Also, the Ocean leaves few fossils, to be found by man.
Sorry, but I am very knowledgable in the field of BioGeography.
science is young give it time.... 200 yrs of modern science... i mean jeezus we just got the internet out for u not 2 long ago... slow ur roll... we'll try and answer them as fast as we can kk? Religion has been around for a bit longer and look where it was getting us "dark ages" ?? we are still learning..... our theory's evolve and change as we learn more..... yours..... dont..... well i guess if u call interpreting the word of god... change..... but who interprets... you(human)...
One of the things that puzzles me about creationists is their obsession with the term "information". They never define what it is. Also, the Kalam argument is just a repackaging of the already debunked Cosmological Argument. In any case, its flaws are discussed at the ironchariots site.
Ill give you one better than any question you asked... why do people die? Free Radicals.. basically the atoms within your body break down at a faster rate as the other higher aspects of your body fight against it, similarly to how the sun dies... its force of gravity tries to crush it however its nuclear fusion prevents it by well.. exploding, but eventually gravity wins either way
Animals do have consciouness, they have concepts that if you hit it after it doing anything, it will evenutally learn that after 2-3 times continually doing it... it will stop.. i think that was obvious to the fucking humans of 60,000 + years ago
Why we have consciences: Like animals, we can be trained. Since birth, our parents have been telling us right from wrong, what to do and what not to do. So, when we do something against that, we feel bad or ashamed, just like a dog for example. Thats why you see people who were not disciplined as a child grow up to commit crime or do drugs, because their understanding of right and wrong was not established beneficially (if that makes sense?).
I know where you won't find the answers to any of your questions....The Bible! Because like most people like Dr William lane craig if we don't have a logical nonsupernatural explanation, the simple answer is "God did it" I constantly hear it in christian videos. This short cut to thinking is all to common and yet many christians claim to use logic and reason, which i contest. But science is showing us the way little by little.
6. gravity powered the creation of stars which allowed fusion of light elements up to iron. That fusion releases energy. Fusion above iron needs energy input so needs a supernova which provides the power. So H and He fuse under gravity heat and pressure and then higher elements to Iron.
1. in steps, swapping a dna strand to use as a correction mechanism would be a first step.
2. I dispute your position. A family dog will act as though it knows it did something wrong. morals are a requirement for society and animals have them too. Food sharing among dog packs, elephants caring for others babies.
3. many animals have emotions , they get afraid or angry.
7 wel id be happy to awnser this one the first atoms where formes aprox when the universe was 500000 years old these where hydrogen and helium gravity did what it was suppost to do and clumbed those elements together please bear in mind that the big bang was an explosion so matter was unevenly distributed across the universe.that explains why there are places of empty space between the galaxys. but the elements to form stars came first
8: There are actually very FEW fossils of land animals. Marine life is a different story, I could go to the near by stream right now and bring back probably several fossils of trilobites, plant life, brachipods and other little swirly shelled creatures I forgot the name of. Most fossilized land animals died in tar pits and other such abnormal conditions.
9: That is unable to be studied at this time, but it is theorized dimensions collided to form the multidimensional universe you see now.
6: I believe that's still being researched. You'll want to look into the "theory of everything" and Cern's Large Hadron Collider. It is believed unknown particles existed instants after the big bang which only exist after events of similar energy output. And I do encourage you to look yourself, you never know what I might be wrong about.
7: I'd say they sorta all came at the same time, the big bang would have been even more hot and powerful than a star, but you should probably ask a physicist
@KevinLounsberry I just rechecked on 6 for you, it was pretty easy, I/you should have done that to begin with. so
6[2.0]: elements CAN be fused past iron, and it does happen, it just needs very large stars, super novas or some other massive output of energy. The big bang would have had a massive massive energy output.
2: I disagree, animals don't go killing each other for no reason. This is especially prevalent in certain nonhuman primates. Our evolved from certain specimines having unpleasant chemical reactions to events. What helps your community in turn helps you and decreases the chances of people ganging up to kick you out or murder you or not helping when you need help. Thus organisms with this feature survived and mated more often than those without.
3: Emotions are an extension of our conscience. All they really are is chemical reactions, so I don't see any potential problems with them having evolved from simple cellular organisms.
4: this is probably easy enough to find out, but I recall it being protein that came first. However, working DNA has been made in labs using only it's base materials to build it.
5: fossils, land formations, time line predictions. You could probably some pretty informative google results for that one.
8) Don't try to use the fossil record as evidence for the biblical flood. You will get called out on it. We see organisms fossilized within strata according to when they emerged in evolutionary time. "Newer" species on top in young layers. "Older" species in the older rocks in the lower strata. This is exactly what evolution would predict, not what a cataclysmic flood would produce.
9) Freshen up on Thermodynamics Laws. Matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Matter and energy exist today. Therefore, according to this law, they are eternal. Now, though I am an evolutionist, I am also a theist. I believe some kind of transcendent being explains why matter and energy exist at all because I do not believe that matter and energy would just always exist without a first cause. God is my idea of a first cause.
10) A gene duplication and subsequent mutation produces new information upon which natural selection can favor better fit genotypes over less fit ones. Here's a nucleotide sequence. ATATGGC. Gene duplication. Two ATATGGC's now exist. A mutation occurs in one. ATATGGC and ATATGGT now are two different sequences. We have successfully increased the information in the genome.
4) Read The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. The requisite for life is something that replicate itself. The modern way of DNA replication does require polymerase (a protein) to work. That doesn't mean that was the case 3.5 billion years ago. An organism that employed a replication-facilitator would have a survival/reproductive advantage over replicating molecules that are unaided in this regard. Natural at it's finest. This all theoretical. I wasn't around when the Earth was formed.
5) I'm a biologist. Don't ask me. Ask a geologist or paleontologist. You need to examine rocks for that. It struck the Yucatan Peninsula from what I understand. There's a probably a large crater there but I'm not sure. Perhaps some soot from the aftermath was fossilized. I don't know. I'm just drinking beer and answering your questions at 1 in the morning.
6) Ask a chemist. Why can't atoms be fused past iron? All I know is that all atoms come from nuclear fusion of Hydrogen atoms when early large stars were burning.
2) Consciousness stems directly from the nervous system. During human evolution, our brains quadrupled in capacity. Once again, this serves to increase our survivability and ability to successfully pass our genes along. Other animals aside from humans (yes, humans are animals) have primitive forms of consciousness and self-awareness. If you are truly curious, search "dot test in primates" on youtube to see that other animals are also self-aware.
I miss heard you. Conscience is tricky subject. It serves the purpose of allowing cohesion within social organisms. Having a sense of what's right and wrong facilitates success survival of groups. This sort of delves into game theory. If you investigate, I'm sure you'll find that other social organisms follow rules. This would be evidence for a primitive conscience. I'd suggest starting with dolphins.
3) Once again, emotion is a product of the brain. We have evolved relatively large brain. Single-celled organisms do not possess brains. By definition, it is impossible for them to have emotions. Look along the continuum from simple to complex. Specifically, narrow your search to organisms that possess brains. You merely need to devise ways to test and quantify emotions in these lower organisms.
1) In a broad sense, an evolutionary answer would start by saying that somewhere between 3.5 billion and 1 billion years ago, it became advantageous (in terms of reproductive fitness, which is the key to natural selection) for aggregations of cells to reproduce by bottlenecking back to a single-cell state that can undergo embryological and ontological development rather than replicating each individual cell in the aggregation. It is a matter of having a reproductive advantage.
1) Paramecia, single celled organisms today, engage in congugation, where they come together to exchange genetic information before reproducing asexually by binary fission at another time. This is a stepping stone between asexual and sexual reproduction.
#1 we see many animals that are both a sexual and sexual. we also see animals that can switch sexes. the reason for this is to increase variaty in genes (faster evolution/adaption) #2&3 simple answer: most animals have a conscience. wolfs, prerrei dogs, dolphins, etc have morals in their groups. they experience sadness when one dies, they share food even though there is no "immediate" benifit etc.
1. No-one knows exactly how it happened as there's no evidence left over from it. We do see certain intermediates in nature though, plenty of creatures can reproduce asexually AND sexually.
2. No-one knows how the conscience evolved. We also don't know that animals don't have them. Not sure where you got that.
3. No-one knows, once again- it's not something there could be any evidence for. It's very easy to imagine though. Try and imagine why pain might useful.
2) Consciousness is not science, so we can't answer that. (and cats can feel guilt, one thing they might do when they feel guilt (not only when they feel guilt) is "bathing")
I must say I am impressed ... While all your questions can be answered fairly simply by people studying these relative fields you have gone out of your way to think up questions outside of the standard ones thrown at us on a regular basis ..... I hope you got your answers swiftly
if u need answers like this to believe then there are answers u need concerning the bible too, many things are unlikely UNTIL u go deeper into the matter, but try and find reports made by scientists on how did god create adam only out of dust. creationists laugh at the "out of mud" used by scientists but the bible is full of things u should doubt now that u have the scientific approach towards things. but i guess u will go back to the mystical approach when speaking of the bible
Some of these are very well thought out questions, I just hope you see them as just questions that can be answered, not ad hoc arguments against evolution.
#'s 2 and 3 annoy me because I see lots of creationists using them in arguments and they come from romanticised religous views about humans and intelligence, not science. The human brain is complex, but it's not that different from other animals, it just uses more resources and is a little more efficient, which makes a big difference.
I am no expert in any of the things you were asking about. But I would suggest you make sure you go to university, you will find people there who can give you well informed opions, definte answers are truely difficult to find sometimes (The more we know, the less we know),
all of those questions have an answer except question nine...we do not know yet, since the laws of science break down before big bang. We know there was a big bang since we see the universe right now expanding...if we reverse it there had to be a moment where all matter and space were compressed in a point. And do you realize 4 of your questions were about not even evolution related, and all 4 of them you could learn from school...
Ever thought about reading a science book to answer these questions dickhead. Of course not that’s too easy. You thought I’ll ask everyone on Youtube instead. What a moron
Wikipedia the following: 1)Evolution of Sexual Reproduction 2+3)Evolution of the Brain 4)Coacervate 5)Chicxulub crater 6)Supernova nucleosynthesis 7)Timeline of the Big Bang 8)Fossil#Types_of_preservation 9)Matter#Origins 10 Yes - evolutionary process)Meiosis and/or Nondisjunction Even wikipedia has your answers. If you haven't heard them, that means you haven't looked.
there are also MANY types of "protein," which are combinations of amino acids which also constitute DNA and RNA. Yucatan and iridium. the stars, made of hydrogen, came first and fused the H to create the other elements, ending with Fe, further fusion requires more energy not available in typical stars and results from supernovas.
ur making too large a leap from single celled organism to humans. there are a VAST array of intermediary species that led to various traits such as emotion and conscience, which are a combination of chemical and synaptic interactions in the brain. these emotions in fact have a evolutionary benefits. fear for example allows us to run from otherwise insurmountable threats. love and compassion ensure the survival of a community of organisms
We seperated at the worm who does both and the worms that were created by sexual means were able to adapt faster and reproduce
How do you know?
Creatures that feel love are more willing to fight for the betterment of there race, anger allows animals to fight and survive, ect creatures that had emotions lived while others died
That is a bio genesis not evolution
The crater
Supernova explosion creates higher elements. that right we have a recycled sun
sorry mate, firstly RETARD :) secondly, its the fact that we evolved to have brains that control our emotions and guilt. we have far more complex brains than monkeys and apes meaning we are able to use our brains to use the resources that are on this plant. thirdly, protein OBVIOULSY cam first because PROTEIN MAKES DNA! fourthly, the meteor is a THEORY which means that its not necessarily right, and not necessarily wrong, however the HUUUUGE crater gives us a hint that it hit the earth.
I think you should look at the credibility of the alternative answers. The reason the Emperor Constantine ordered the Council of Nicea was because there were hundreds of different forms of Christianity being practised throughout the Empire and they all contradicted each other. The 2 main debating points were the divinity of Jesus (half the people didn't accept that he was God) and the other was whether to include the Old Testament which they knew shows a very ugly and biased side of God.
Up until the 17-1800s, it was scientifically accepted that God made the Earth in 6 days, 6000 years ago. Why?....because a guy called Moses said so about 3000 years ago. And why is it still believed?....It's not. People who follow religion have on average a much lower IQ score than those who don't.
The first thing you should try to understand is that the Earth is at least 4 billion years old and that life is at least 3 billion years old. It's easy to read that quickly and move on, but take the time and try to wrap your head around that. The scale of the timeline of life is one of the most awesome things that our conscience has to deal with before we can try to educate ourselves about the origins of life.
single cell can divide much more easily a simple genetic fluke so eventually it mutated in a way that made single celled organisms not single celled. (our cell still reproduce asexually.) now we don't see as many positive mutations in the body because our body destroys mutated and damaged cells. (if it doesn't the cells developed into cancer.)
agreed. Also on how to go from asexual to sexual: A lot of small organisms (mostly single cell) can reproduce in both ways. When there is enough food around and certain conditions are met they can choose to reproduce by mixing their genes with another organism. These organisms don't have a sex yet so they basically can reproduce with every other organism (the evolution of sexes can be explained with cells specializing). When there is not a lot of food around they fall back to cloning themselves
I wont claim to be an expert, I am not an atheist or a christian. I do, however know a few things (not expert knowledge) about the human brain. The human brain recieves info from an outside source (eyes, ears,etc.) and processes it. From our experiences and training, we form morals, from morals forms our conscience. I cannot say that the animal kingdom is devoid of conscience, but it does have morals which are much less defined and sophisticated than humans', (ie don't eat your packmates).
Furthermore, as far as emotions are concerned, they are mostly chemical reactions in the brain. Love is a feeling we get when receptors in our brain recieve Oxytocin and Vasopressin. There are many different chemicals that create the many different feelings that we get. It's in our biology. Thx OP.
10. Hemoglobin genes. There was one gene copy initially and gene duplication made multiple copies of the gene. After multiple copies were present the "extra" copies were able to mutate more rapidly as long as one of the copies was conserved to function in the organism. This gives us our Hb A,B,D, and F chains, all of which are important at some point in the life cycle of humans.
7. Hydrogen formed first, then coalesced into stars by gravity. Helium is formed in regular stars, elements heavier than helium (but smaller than iron) are formed in red supergiants.
Great questions kid. These juvenile comments your are receiving are proof of atheist ignorance. Dont be offended by this as these people are only frustrated when they realize their faith in other mens theories can not be backed by facts as they claim.
Plx LEARN about what ure trying to refute BEFORE questioning it.
You have a severe lack of knowledge and ure asking questions that, with ure knowledge, sounds Really awesome but are in fact Really stupid once u've gone thru a high school education.
10. There are many types of mutations in genes. One of these types is called gene duplication. This is when a certain gene is duplicated in order to make a backup copy. This extra is not necessary but can still be somewhat useful.
Then, if that backup gene becomes mutated then you have new information, without destroying any old information.
wow. I'm not an evolutionist but i'm definately not a christian either. What are your real intentions in asking those questions? you think that if people cant answer them that evolution is false? let me ask you a couple questions, HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD EXSISTS? HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE ISN'T SOME LONG ASS STORY BOOK WRITTED BY SOME RANDOM DUDE A LONG TIME AGO? EVER THINK IT MIGHT BE ALL MADE UP? yeah, you cant prove everything! its called faith!
Personally, I highly doubt that you're asking these questions because you're curious about the answers. If you really wanted to know the answers, you could of just looked them up. The only remaining purpose I can think of for positing these questions is to make a point, which, unfortunately is not well made.
interesting notice how these ppl avoid answering your questions but immediately fire questions at you, in the book derren brown tricks of the mind it says ppl hu do that are trying to avoid the situation. interesting.
1) cdk007 answers this in "The Origin of Sexual Reproduction" right here on youTube
2) I suggest picking up Robert Wright's "The Moral Animal"
3) This is silly. Are you seriously comparing the activity of single cells to that of hundreds of millions of interacting cells? I'm trying to be patient, but this really and seriously is ridiculous.
4, 6, 7) google the terms ribozyme, gamma ray bursts, Nucleosynthesis
I just stated the name of the argument. You clearly know enough about it to be able to tell whether or not it provides evidence for God, so you shouldn't need me to explain why it is evidence.
@scotzbhoy the kalam argument is wrong, quantum physics shows that particles can come from literally nothing, appearing in what was previously a vacuum.
@scotzbhoy the kalam argument is wrong, quantum physics shows that particles can come from literally nothing, appearing in what was previously a vacuum.
Actually, the kalam cosmological argument doesn't prove god exists, it doesn't prove he's personal, and it doesn't prove anything, it is a statement that the universe had to have a first cause. To say that is to say nothing about God you still have all your work ahead of you proving that a personal god exists.
only a few of your questions have anything to do with evolution. most are questions concerning physics. you say early on that "you are not asking to prove creationism" yet you refer to a worldwide flood.
so i have questions for you, are you not able to tell the difference between biological evolution and theoretical physics?
(6 cont.) but this has nothing to do with evolution but rather astronomy. why do people like you constantly equate evolution with physics?
7) elements to make the stars... hydrogen is abundant, due to gravity and friction you get stars.
8) there are actually not that many fossils when you think about it... 99% of all species that have ever existed have become extinct and we only have these few fossils left?
2) animals dont feel guilt or no conscience? do you REALLY want me to answer this? i sure do someone else has already... i mean... its so obvious.
3) emotions such as "love" have evolved to better protect our species. like when two people fall in love and protect their children to ensure their survival.
4) evolution explains the diversity of life. not how it started
5) the impact crater near the gulf of mexico.
6) super nova's create heavier elements essential for life.
Question 2: Haven't you ever seen a dog look guilty from being scolded?
Emotions are an emergent phenomenon and there is quite a bit written about this you just have to open a book.
The infrastructure for getting protein has changed. used to be that it was only RNA made into protein through a folded bit of RNA called a ribosome
The evidence that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs is that in the layer where we stop finding dino fossils there is a layer of iridium which is rare except in space.
number 2 is ABSOLUTELY wrong. In an experiment with rats, rats could eat but eating would harm their neighbour, and they would starve themselves instead of hurting their neighbours. Animals have a sense of right and wrong.
10) The information content of the genome would be increased by any change which made it more random (more Kolmogorov complexity). A mutation will generally make the genome either more random or less random. Either way the change is only rarely beneficial. That is why most mutations never even potentially get passed on. Those few which are beneficial are naturally more likely to get passed on and become increasingly common in the population - an example of natural selection in action.
8: When the wind blows it sometimes picks up a small amount of dirt and comet dust. Millions of years can eventually bury things deep below the ground.
9: Nobody knows yet. Maybe we're the result of an even bigger universe crashing 2 hadron beams. *Chuckle*
10: What? Sorry I can't answer that one, I think it can be answered by a rocket scientist. I'm only 13 years old!
You ask some pretty interesting questions, though.
5: Maybe this didn't wipe out the dinosaurs. This is a theory. Every million years an ice age happens that lasts a million years. Maybe the ice age killed them off. Also, maybe a meteor happened too to help it, how do you explain the Gulf of Mexico?
6: Gravity, my boy. Everything has gravity, the bigger the object the more gravity causes it to compress itself into something heavier.
7: The elements to make the stars came first I think. Our sun was made when H2 compressed on itself.
1: I think that asexual and sexual have been around the same time and sexual did not branch off asexual.
2: Who knows? Maybe animals do have consciousness and feelings, you don't realize it because it is hard to play out of your species. Scientists said that 'life organisms' have been floating in space and maybe we caught 'planted' and 'brained'.
3: I think I explained it in 2, there's some holes in evolution but it doesn't make it wrong.
Finally, what leads you to imagine that animals other than humans have no conscience? That's rather presumptuous. Also, man is capable of abstract thinking (including emotions, which are entirely mental processes) because his adaptation to bipedal locomotion freed his hands and allowed his forebrain to develop dramatically, which it had to do for our survival. Man is a lousy predator. Evolution gave giraffes long necks, cheetahs speed, and man wits and the capacity for abstract thinking.
Most of these questions betray an igornace of what evolution is. First, it has nothing to do with the origins of the universe or of matter. Darwin wrote on the origin of *species*. Second, in the scheme of things, there aren't "so many fossils". The fossil record represents a miniscule fraction of a fraction of the organisms that have existed. Third, there is no "chicken or egg" in regards to DNA and protein. Both evolved over time as described in the volutionary model.
Q6. *facepalm* You ask great questions, though all of these are addressed in college biology, and you seem non confrontational so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. This one is not a biology question. It is astrophysics/cosmology; however, I will answer it anyway. Super novas and hyper novas. When a star's core is fused into iron, the energy input is greater than output. The star collapses on itself and explodes. This explosion unleashes the energy needed to fuse heavier elements.
Q5. A large crater off the coast of the Yucatan Pens. Mexico is now the accepted crater that wiped out the dinos. It's 200 km in diameter and has been dated to be around 65 million yrs old. Furthermore, you can find shocked quartz (evidence of a enormous amount of heat and pressure) and large amounts of elements found frequently in asteroids or comets, BUT not on Earth.
Q1. I don't know. That's a big question, but I assure you it is being studied.
Q2. Because we are the only animals with a developed frontal lobe. That's the part of the brain that controls all the things that would define an organism as a "human" i.e. emotion, logic, creativity.
Why would you assume that matter, space, and time cannot be destroyed? Energy is always conserved, but it's possible that the total amount of energy in the universe is zero, if you add in negative gravitational potential energy.
So you don't need anything to be eternal. It's also possible that the big bang wasn't the beginning, that there's a cyclical universe.
It's possible that energy conservation is only a law upheld under most-but not all-conditions.
dont worry you will never have sex and animals are con-shusss sides fuck Britain yeah i see better nicer answers down there but you should look at the higher sciences like quantum but hell no offense i dont think you see how it fits god is silly he was made by man when man lacked science
About the elements, stars are over mostly made of the simplest elements, hydrogen and helium (we conclude through spectroscopy). Fusion within the stars generate the heavier elements. We are literally made of stardust from stars that exploded long ago (crazy, huh?). How the simple elements formed? Subatomic big bang theories made by people far smarter than I.
Wikipedia usually has the best answers to these questions, and you can always look up the scientific steps as to how those conclusions were reached. Stay away from Conservapedia, that site is an elaborate joke site.
Your questions were asked reasonably, so I hope you'll get reasonable answers. I do want to say that it's presumptive to say animals lack conscience - how could we know? Many exhibit behavioral cues that resemble conscientious actions.
(at least to start with) Stars are/(were) made up only of hydrogen - the gravity of such a huge mass pulling more in from space, and causing the hydrogen atoms to fuse (only giving helium, and stuff up to iron at that point).
At the end of a stars life, It only has helium and hydrogen left - if it is big enough, it will supernova. This has enough energy to cause even heavier elements to be formed from the fusion of other things, giving us things like plutonium etc...
These answers are easy to find if you get out from under your bed and take some biology, humanities and psycology classes... Your just asking the same tired questions over and over and over again...
"Animals have no concept of what is right and wrong'
That is incorrect. People make the mistake of thinking of morality as unique to them. Observe behaviour in social animals, such as wolves, who actually live by social rules, such as not to randomly attack one another, as they are dependent on one another for survival. There are more examples of morality in humans, as we are a more complex animals
If you want serious answers to your questions you can easily find them in any textbook or website (objective website). If you want ridicule and banter then read the text and watch the video responses. Some of your questions don't relate to evolution, but pursuing a higher degree in any public institution will provide you with the basics in study and research and the tools to find the answers on your own and even give you some on your way to a degree. Good luck chap!
You should watch videos by the youtube user "thunderf00t" He might answer some of your questions regarding evolution, but he mostly owns the creationist arguments against evolution.
It's called the "Why do people laugh at creationists" series.
I would have to agree that animals have a conscious. Some use facial expressions to convey feelings, they have a nervous system, and some of higher intelligence(Apes, some canines) know if they're being disobedient or doing something wrong. Then again, that might just be the product of negetive reinforcement.
the answer to the first question is that as we have evolved we have become much more complex animals that need more many chromosomes to create a new life which comes from the mother and fathers dna code a single celled organism is simple enough that it can reproduce right from the dna strain while humans who's genetic code is extremely complex need many different types of proteins and dna strains which some only exist in certain genders.
I'd like to know how rare or not you think fossilization is. Please tell me, how many percent of living organisms have fossilized. Just your honest opinion.
It isn't easy to become a fossil Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.
Bearing in mind that they can be buried anywhere within an area of slighly over 9.3 million square kilometres, little of which will ever be turned over, much less examined, it would be something of a miracle if they ever were.
That begs the question of when they appeared and by what means. And please don't repeat one suggestion put forth on this website that one-celled organisms may have emotions. Sheesh.
Q2: Animals do have consciences (putting aside the fact that we are animals) for example apes have been known to have died while trying to save others. So, empathy in this case, is not unique to humans.
Q5: Do a google search for chicxulub. It's a gigantic meteor crater located in the Yacatan peninsula.
Q7: Heavier elements are made in stars by nuclear fusion.
Q8: We don't. Fossilization is rare - just think of the number of organisms that have lived
I applaud your effort for trying to understand, but I also believe that if you were truly trying then you would have been able to answer them yourself (most).
Some of the questions posed answers, but I also get the impression that you do not have a complete grasp of simple evolutionary mechanisms. For example, traits do not need to be passed on from an ancestor species; they can evolve. Just because whales are unique doesn't mean that they couldn't have evolved for example.
"Animals have no consciences? Have you ever scolded a dog before? "
You are anthropomorphizing. A dog' s reaction is basic stimulus/response behaviourism.
Don't be too hard on the kid. His point is well taken. Forgot the dog. When DID conscience appear? And by what incremental steps? Instead of jumping on the bandwagon of ridicule, honest answers to honest questions would give you more credibility.
I think you can sort of do away with the term "evolutionists" at this point. It's sort of like people from 1000 years ago calling someone a "round earthist." I tend to just sort people into "people who understand how science works" and "people who prefer to believe in magic and refuse to learn."
The conscience one cracked me up. Animals have no consciences? Have you ever scolded a dog before?
But seriously, you could pretty much google any of these dumb questions and get good answers.
I. Wikipedia has an entire page devoted to the origin of sexual reproduction. On YouTube, cdk007 has made an excellent video on the same topic. You should read it and watch it.
II. Not exactly sure what you mean by "conscience". Do you mean morality? If you were to read Question 10 on the free PDF on the top ten myths surrounding evolution (available online), the answer is there. Continued.
TheHeidelbergKid 1 week ago
To answer questions on stars/elements: During the BigBang mainly hydrogen was formed (plus a little helium and traces of lithium). The hydrogen aggregated into stars which fuse H into He. Most stars die by becoming red giants then collapsing to white dwarfs. Very large stars collapse under their own gravity and form a super nova. At this stage the energy of gravitational collapse causes fusion of Iron into heavier elements. This means that all elements >Fe were formed in a supernova collapse.
aden302000 4 weeks ago
Do you know where you should go and ask these questions? To nobel laureates in the sciences, they're ALL "evolutionists". Well, basically ALL scientists are "evolutionists" too, so asking any scientist would maybe be better than putting it on YouTube
winterstellar 2 months ago
@winterstellar And when I say "all scientists", I'm of course talking about modern, living scientists. Not some ancient guy like the christians like to mention no matter how ancient and irrelevant they are
winterstellar 2 months ago
9. Why can't matter, energy, and space time be eternal? We don't know where it came from. Possibly popped into existence.
10. "Information" is ill-defined. The best scientific definition of information is Shannon information, which corresponds nearly exactly to the length of the string examined.
I think you WANT to ask, "What is a single obviously beneficial mutation which provides some new function to an organism?"
HIV immunity in humans, nylonase production in flavobacterium.
TaslemGuy 3 months ago
@TaslemGuy
"HIV immunity in humans"
CCR5 delta 32. =P Also granted immunity to the black plague.
verzen 2 months ago
8. Fossilization does not require rapid burial or immediate pressure. They simply require the need to be protected from rot and other organisms, and when they are later buried they will fossilize. Lakes which bones fall into or tar pits are good at collecting bones, which is why bones elsewhere are very rare. Moreover, a flood would be very bad at preserving fossils or burying them.
TaslemGuy 3 months ago
6. Elements CAN be fused past iron. However, it exhausts more energy than is produced. Stars, however, produce plenty of excess energy that can be used to fuse iron. Additionally, supernovas would cause instantaneous fusion of many heavy elements.
7. Stars need only hydrogen to form. All other elements appear to have been produced by hydrogen or helium.
TaslemGuy 3 months ago
3. Emotions are each controlled by specific portions of the brain (such as the Amygdala regulating fear) and most emotions have beneficial results. Even animals have emotions. These are just patterns of behavior in response to certain types of stimuli.
4. Proteins can form without RNA and DNA, and vice versa. It is just unlikely and energy consuming.
5. The KT boundary contains iridium (a lot of it) which is found almost solely in meteors. Oh, and it covers the entire Earth.
TaslemGuy 3 months ago
First: Don't call ANYONE an "evolutionist." Call them a scientist. Scientists agree with evolution. People who do not agree with evolution are rarely scientists.
1. Good question. No one is exactly sure. It may be that diploid Eukaryotes used a second set of DNA to repair their first, and they managed to attain a similar organism's copy of DNA.
2. The consciousness is a product of more complex neurological pathways. It is most likely an artifact of greater intelligence.
TaslemGuy 3 months ago
stfuplz13 4 months ago
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Be very careful about what you consider to be evolutionary questions.
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todoz11 5 months ago
10. Look it up there is hundreds of examples like nylonase.
Oh and don't pretend that you just posted this because you were curious, you are obviously making a point (although poorly).
Ollyoxenfree1 5 months ago
9. We can't know what was before the big bang because any trace would have been destroyed when the universe was small, hot, and extremely dense.
Ollyoxenfree1 5 months ago
5. Well there is a layer of chemicals that only come from space in a layer of strata around the world thought to be 64 million years old.
6. Fusion in stars would create heavy elements they would then be spread around by supernovae.
7. All the elements in stars would be around because of the big bang (hydrogen and helium).
8. A lot of flooding and quick burials happen in 4.6 billion years.
Ollyoxenfree1 5 months ago
1. Look it up, their is lots of theories out there.
2. Social Construct, how do you know animals don't have consciences? A cow might think the same of humans before going to the chopping block.
3. They come from complexity and because they give animals an evolutionary advantage.
4. RNA and DNA do not need protein to form and they create proteins. However there would be large amounts just mixing around in the primordial soup.
Ollyoxenfree1 5 months ago
1)I'm no expert but I would guess through processes/mutations that enrich the genome, downs syndrome is one of those.
2) This is just bullshit,some animals clearly show feeling. Why are baby animals usually cute (mammals that is)...to invoke sympathy among other feelings, is that not conscience?
3)Motions are complex chemical processes in the brain....single cell organisms are also capable of complex chemical processes...so what's the problem.
4) This is not a practical paradox, ...
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RafnHeimisson 7 months ago
@RafnHeimisson ...the answer is just...the one that came before. If the chicken is older than the egg it probably came before.
5) It probably wasn't just a meteor, although there are a few very large craters one in the Mexico at the yucatan peninsula. There are also clear evidences of super volcanic eruptions.
6) Wrong but the fusion is not exothermic so the process needs more energy than it gives.
7) The hydrogen (and other elements) was formed in the big bang so the elements came before.
RafnHeimisson 7 months ago
@RafnHeimisson 8) The earth is very old.
9) This is actually a more difficult one. No one can really know what was before the big bang because there was no universe. Although there are theories too complex to talk about here (like brans predicted by string theory). however there is nothing that indicates that energy is not eternal. Matter is of course just one from of energy. Is time eternal...? The arrow of time is indicated by entropy so you could argue that if entropy reaches a maximum there.
RafnHeimisson 7 months ago
@RafnHeimisson (9) would be no time, but that is an if.
10) Again downs symdrome.
RafnHeimisson 7 months ago
It was aliens, proof is everywhere your argument is invalid
thirtyminuteslater 7 months ago
Did not do the research
Offthehookdude 8 months ago
1. your question is flawd, it is impossable to do it in small steps, but we did it from mutations over time
2. we adapted to think, we used tools, ect. but this question you aked is also flawed becuse you cant prove animals dont have concenses
3. we mutated and evolved
4. thats like asking what came first, the chicken or the egg
5. wtf dose this have to do with evolution?
6. niosus said it best
8. fossilisation occurs when minurals replace the cells in the bones, it can be done if the bone
theeater23 8 months ago
9. I truthfully cannot come up with an answer, however we both know that matter cannot be created or destroyed. So with this law in mind we can correctly assume that it is eternal. Time, through Albert Einstein's theory is relative and energy is simply MC^2. In respect to mass being eternal, we can assume this is also eternal.
10. There is the new arsenic based cells that were found. Also there are 3000+ documented at ncbi. com
ThatBlackPanda 9 months ago
1. With the theory of evolution there comes the theory of devolution, the idea that if there is lack of diversity a species can die (anti incest). A-sexual organisms need to find other ways to spread genes or else they would die, through this necessity sexual reproduction evolves.
2. Some would argue animals do have consciences. In you own a dog, and it bites you it would either run away or lick your wound... but I am no expert on this field. I suggest you read Marc Bekoff's books for info.
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ThatBlackPanda 9 months ago
3. Emotions are not a new development, it can be said to have come about during the early ordovician period, we however can be sure it was present in the carboniferous period. This is using emotion in it's simplified context.
4.The protein... seeing as one can create protein with covalent bonds and some elemental compounds while DNA/RNA require ionic and hydrogen bondings.
5. There is a crater in South America dated in the correct time period, and that has little to do with evolution.
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ThatBlackPanda 9 months ago
6. This has even less to do with evolution. Evolution does not mean non christian science, but I will humor you. The Big Bang theory states that the elements along with their antimatter equivalent were already present.
7. If you are referencing Big Bang theory, it is the elements. Seeing as there were no stars before this.
Note: I am not a supporter of the Big Bang Theory though I support evolution. I do, however, believe in learning before deciding, so I do have knowledge on the Theory.
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ThatBlackPanda 9 months ago
8. Animals do not require a quick burial in order to fossilize, just a substantial amount of pressure, not "lots". If there was a flood, however, there would be:
No plankton, coral, crustaceans, and fish (other than bull sharks) because of the fusion of fresh and salt waters and the change in depth.
In the end Bull sharks and mammalian predators would be 100% of sea life.
Also, the Ocean leaves few fossils, to be found by man.
Sorry, but I am very knowledgable in the field of BioGeography.
ThatBlackPanda 9 months ago
science is young give it time.... 200 yrs of modern science... i mean jeezus we just got the internet out for u not 2 long ago... slow ur roll... we'll try and answer them as fast as we can kk? Religion has been around for a bit longer and look where it was getting us "dark ages" ?? we are still learning..... our theory's evolve and change as we learn more..... yours..... dont..... well i guess if u call interpreting the word of god... change..... but who interprets... you(human)...
Lagunaz23 9 months ago
first stars burned hydrogen and helium, they explode and collide nuclei together to form more atoms...
stars to create more elements, that one is easy.
tailsmilesprower24 10 months ago
how do you know if animals dont have conscious?
no one does, they cant tell us.
tailsmilesprower24 10 months ago
the closests answer to 2) is a dog. But I am supportive of this.
JohnGreene444 10 months ago
One of the things that puzzles me about creationists is their obsession with the term "information". They never define what it is. Also, the Kalam argument is just a repackaging of the already debunked Cosmological Argument. In any case, its flaws are discussed at the ironchariots site.
criskity 10 months ago
Ill give you one better than any question you asked... why do people die? Free Radicals.. basically the atoms within your body break down at a faster rate as the other higher aspects of your body fight against it, similarly to how the sun dies... its force of gravity tries to crush it however its nuclear fusion prevents it by well.. exploding, but eventually gravity wins either way
Alyxm 11 months ago
Animals do have consciouness, they have concepts that if you hit it after it doing anything, it will evenutally learn that after 2-3 times continually doing it... it will stop.. i think that was obvious to the fucking humans of 60,000 + years ago
Alyxm 11 months ago
Why we have consciences: Like animals, we can be trained. Since birth, our parents have been telling us right from wrong, what to do and what not to do. So, when we do something against that, we feel bad or ashamed, just like a dog for example. Thats why you see people who were not disciplined as a child grow up to commit crime or do drugs, because their understanding of right and wrong was not established beneficially (if that makes sense?).
mythoughtsvlogs 11 months ago
Nr1: I actually dont know, but I think thats a part of A biogenesis, not evolution.
Nr2: Yes they do. We evolved intelligence, and thing like emphati and understandings are bi-products of evolution.
Nr3: Emotions are benefitial and are also a bi-product of intelligence.
Nr4: Again, thats A-biogenesis.
Nr5: There are two huge marks that have been found on the earth. And it didnt whipe them, they were already on the way to being whiped out.
Nr6: And thats not evolution
Nr7:
gulbirk 11 months ago
I know where you won't find the answers to any of your questions....The Bible! Because like most people like Dr William lane craig if we don't have a logical nonsupernatural explanation, the simple answer is "God did it" I constantly hear it in christian videos. This short cut to thinking is all to common and yet many christians claim to use logic and reason, which i contest. But science is showing us the way little by little.
stagehandbob 11 months ago
6. gravity powered the creation of stars which allowed fusion of light elements up to iron. That fusion releases energy. Fusion above iron needs energy input so needs a supernova which provides the power. So H and He fuse under gravity heat and pressure and then higher elements to Iron.
SqueakerAlpha 1 year ago
1. in steps, swapping a dna strand to use as a correction mechanism would be a first step.
2. I dispute your position. A family dog will act as though it knows it did something wrong. morals are a requirement for society and animals have them too. Food sharing among dog packs, elephants caring for others babies.
3. many animals have emotions , they get afraid or angry.
SqueakerAlpha 1 year ago
7 wel id be happy to awnser this one the first atoms where formes aprox when the universe was 500000 years old these where hydrogen and helium gravity did what it was suppost to do and clumbed those elements together please bear in mind that the big bang was an explosion so matter was unevenly distributed across the universe.that explains why there are places of empty space between the galaxys. but the elements to form stars came first
festum666 1 year ago
8: There are actually very FEW fossils of land animals. Marine life is a different story, I could go to the near by stream right now and bring back probably several fossils of trilobites, plant life, brachipods and other little swirly shelled creatures I forgot the name of. Most fossilized land animals died in tar pits and other such abnormal conditions.
9: That is unable to be studied at this time, but it is theorized dimensions collided to form the multidimensional universe you see now.
KevinLounsberry 1 year ago
6: I believe that's still being researched. You'll want to look into the "theory of everything" and Cern's Large Hadron Collider. It is believed unknown particles existed instants after the big bang which only exist after events of similar energy output. And I do encourage you to look yourself, you never know what I might be wrong about.
7: I'd say they sorta all came at the same time, the big bang would have been even more hot and powerful than a star, but you should probably ask a physicist
KevinLounsberry 1 year ago
@KevinLounsberry I just rechecked on 6 for you, it was pretty easy, I/you should have done that to begin with. so
6[2.0]: elements CAN be fused past iron, and it does happen, it just needs very large stars, super novas or some other massive output of energy. The big bang would have had a massive massive energy output.
KevinLounsberry 1 year ago
@KevinLounsberry I suppose I shouldn't really be saying "massive" but "very high" energy output.
KevinLounsberry 1 year ago
1: This should help you /watch?v=1w0FiwfyUMM
2: I disagree, animals don't go killing each other for no reason. This is especially prevalent in certain nonhuman primates. Our evolved from certain specimines having unpleasant chemical reactions to events. What helps your community in turn helps you and decreases the chances of people ganging up to kick you out or murder you or not helping when you need help. Thus organisms with this feature survived and mated more often than those without.
KevinLounsberry 1 year ago
3: Emotions are an extension of our conscience. All they really are is chemical reactions, so I don't see any potential problems with them having evolved from simple cellular organisms.
4: this is probably easy enough to find out, but I recall it being protein that came first. However, working DNA has been made in labs using only it's base materials to build it.
5: fossils, land formations, time line predictions. You could probably some pretty informative google results for that one.
KevinLounsberry 1 year ago
8) Don't try to use the fossil record as evidence for the biblical flood. You will get called out on it. We see organisms fossilized within strata according to when they emerged in evolutionary time. "Newer" species on top in young layers. "Older" species in the older rocks in the lower strata. This is exactly what evolution would predict, not what a cataclysmic flood would produce.
aplee2006 1 year ago
9) Freshen up on Thermodynamics Laws. Matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Matter and energy exist today. Therefore, according to this law, they are eternal. Now, though I am an evolutionist, I am also a theist. I believe some kind of transcendent being explains why matter and energy exist at all because I do not believe that matter and energy would just always exist without a first cause. God is my idea of a first cause.
aplee2006 1 year ago
10) A gene duplication and subsequent mutation produces new information upon which natural selection can favor better fit genotypes over less fit ones. Here's a nucleotide sequence. ATATGGC. Gene duplication. Two ATATGGC's now exist. A mutation occurs in one. ATATGGC and ATATGGT now are two different sequences. We have successfully increased the information in the genome.
aplee2006 1 year ago
4) Read The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. The requisite for life is something that replicate itself. The modern way of DNA replication does require polymerase (a protein) to work. That doesn't mean that was the case 3.5 billion years ago. An organism that employed a replication-facilitator would have a survival/reproductive advantage over replicating molecules that are unaided in this regard. Natural at it's finest. This all theoretical. I wasn't around when the Earth was formed.
aplee2006 1 year ago
5) I'm a biologist. Don't ask me. Ask a geologist or paleontologist. You need to examine rocks for that. It struck the Yucatan Peninsula from what I understand. There's a probably a large crater there but I'm not sure. Perhaps some soot from the aftermath was fossilized. I don't know. I'm just drinking beer and answering your questions at 1 in the morning.
aplee2006 1 year ago
6) Ask a chemist. Why can't atoms be fused past iron? All I know is that all atoms come from nuclear fusion of Hydrogen atoms when early large stars were burning.
aplee2006 1 year ago
7) Ask a theoretical physicist. Next.
aplee2006 1 year ago
2) Consciousness stems directly from the nervous system. During human evolution, our brains quadrupled in capacity. Once again, this serves to increase our survivability and ability to successfully pass our genes along. Other animals aside from humans (yes, humans are animals) have primitive forms of consciousness and self-awareness. If you are truly curious, search "dot test in primates" on youtube to see that other animals are also self-aware.
aplee2006 1 year ago
I miss heard you. Conscience is tricky subject. It serves the purpose of allowing cohesion within social organisms. Having a sense of what's right and wrong facilitates success survival of groups. This sort of delves into game theory. If you investigate, I'm sure you'll find that other social organisms follow rules. This would be evidence for a primitive conscience. I'd suggest starting with dolphins.
aplee2006 1 year ago
3) Once again, emotion is a product of the brain. We have evolved relatively large brain. Single-celled organisms do not possess brains. By definition, it is impossible for them to have emotions. Look along the continuum from simple to complex. Specifically, narrow your search to organisms that possess brains. You merely need to devise ways to test and quantify emotions in these lower organisms.
aplee2006 1 year ago
1) In a broad sense, an evolutionary answer would start by saying that somewhere between 3.5 billion and 1 billion years ago, it became advantageous (in terms of reproductive fitness, which is the key to natural selection) for aggregations of cells to reproduce by bottlenecking back to a single-cell state that can undergo embryological and ontological development rather than replicating each individual cell in the aggregation. It is a matter of having a reproductive advantage.
aplee2006 1 year ago
1) Paramecia, single celled organisms today, engage in congugation, where they come together to exchange genetic information before reproducing asexually by binary fission at another time. This is a stepping stone between asexual and sexual reproduction.
RPBiohazard 1 year ago
#1 we see many animals that are both a sexual and sexual. we also see animals that can switch sexes. the reason for this is to increase variaty in genes (faster evolution/adaption) #2&3 simple answer: most animals have a conscience. wolfs, prerrei dogs, dolphins, etc have morals in their groups. they experience sadness when one dies, they share food even though there is no "immediate" benifit etc.
happypants30000 1 year ago
Ok I'll have a bash.
1. No-one knows exactly how it happened as there's no evidence left over from it. We do see certain intermediates in nature though, plenty of creatures can reproduce asexually AND sexually.
2. No-one knows how the conscience evolved. We also don't know that animals don't have them. Not sure where you got that.
3. No-one knows, once again- it's not something there could be any evidence for. It's very easy to imagine though. Try and imagine why pain might useful.
GodTheHypothesis 1 year ago
I like how most people aren't even answering the questions he asked.
guitarguy1634 1 year ago
2) Consciousness is not science, so we can't answer that. (and cats can feel guilt, one thing they might do when they feel guilt (not only when they feel guilt) is "bathing")
321Carl2000 1 year ago
I must say I am impressed ... While all your questions can be answered fairly simply by people studying these relative fields you have gone out of your way to think up questions outside of the standard ones thrown at us on a regular basis ..... I hope you got your answers swiftly
Edwarddoom 1 year ago
if u need answers like this to believe then there are answers u need concerning the bible too, many things are unlikely UNTIL u go deeper into the matter, but try and find reports made by scientists on how did god create adam only out of dust. creationists laugh at the "out of mud" used by scientists but the bible is full of things u should doubt now that u have the scientific approach towards things. but i guess u will go back to the mystical approach when speaking of the bible
gix500 1 year ago
Some of these are very well thought out questions, I just hope you see them as just questions that can be answered, not ad hoc arguments against evolution.
#'s 2 and 3 annoy me because I see lots of creationists using them in arguments and they come from romanticised religous views about humans and intelligence, not science. The human brain is complex, but it's not that different from other animals, it just uses more resources and is a little more efficient, which makes a big difference.
Houshalter 1 year ago
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FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 1 year ago
I am no expert in any of the things you were asking about. But I would suggest you make sure you go to university, you will find people there who can give you well informed opions, definte answers are truely difficult to find sometimes (The more we know, the less we know),
Aydosh1991 1 year ago
all of those questions have an answer except question nine...we do not know yet, since the laws of science break down before big bang. We know there was a big bang since we see the universe right now expanding...if we reverse it there had to be a moment where all matter and space were compressed in a point. And do you realize 4 of your questions were about not even evolution related, and all 4 of them you could learn from school...
darryllobo14 1 year ago
Ever thought about reading a science book to answer these questions dickhead. Of course not that’s too easy. You thought I’ll ask everyone on Youtube instead. What a moron
stewpotb62 1 year ago
Moron... -___-
asylumteddybear 1 year ago
6. supernova
7.The element, hydrogen came first, gravity formed it into stars.
8.There is no mud layer with all the dead bodies.
9.There was no 'time' before the big bang.
10. Feathers on dinosaurs
gregrutz 1 year ago
sidelingscroll 1 year ago
there are also MANY types of "protein," which are combinations of amino acids which also constitute DNA and RNA. Yucatan and iridium. the stars, made of hydrogen, came first and fused the H to create the other elements, ending with Fe, further fusion requires more energy not available in typical stars and results from supernovas.
aznsteve128 1 year ago
ur making too large a leap from single celled organism to humans. there are a VAST array of intermediary species that led to various traits such as emotion and conscience, which are a combination of chemical and synaptic interactions in the brain. these emotions in fact have a evolutionary benefits. fear for example allows us to run from otherwise insurmountable threats. love and compassion ensure the survival of a community of organisms
aznsteve128 1 year ago
1) Lateral gene transfer.
2) This is likely due to genetic mutations of the CNS which may increase overall intelligence.
3) See 2.
4) Protein. DNA/RNA are polymers that are thought to have formed afterwards.
5) The Yucatan Peninsula and a worldwide anomaly of iridium from the meteor.
6) Nucleosynthesis via supernovae.
7) Elements.
8) Volcanic ash in particular, but there are other causes.
9) Don't think anyone knows.
10) Down's Syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra 21st chromosome.
MattBT12 1 year ago
6: it takes a lot of energy to fuse those, but It can happen. Likewise you get a lot of energy by separating them.
7: The stars don't produce elements like factories. The elements were created by the big-bang an event of enormous energy.
8: most fossils are found where water used to be plentiful. ancient swamps.
9: science is learning. we didn't always know what caused gravity either.
10: Down's syndrome. Viruses add to their information.
evolution is about modification of genes. not number
Becky2009 1 year ago
1: small steps? millions-billions of years? sexual resproduction adds biodiversity which protects against disease.
2: The Brain. NOTE:not everyone has a consciousness. Ex. psychopaths.
3: The Brain. Compare the complexcity of our brains to theirs.
4: DNA+RNA are made from nucleic acid, not proteins. They JUST assemble them based on the blue prints.
5: fossil records indicate that the dinosaurs disappears arround the same time a meteor hit the earth. a meteor causes wide-spread damage.
Becky2009 1 year ago
We seperated at the worm who does both and the worms that were created by sexual means were able to adapt faster and reproduce
How do you know?
Creatures that feel love are more willing to fight for the betterment of there race, anger allows animals to fight and survive, ect creatures that had emotions lived while others died
That is a bio genesis not evolution
The crater
Supernova explosion creates higher elements. that right we have a recycled sun
Elements Hydrogen is used to make first star
ebilly99 1 year ago
sorry mate, firstly RETARD :) secondly, its the fact that we evolved to have brains that control our emotions and guilt. we have far more complex brains than monkeys and apes meaning we are able to use our brains to use the resources that are on this plant. thirdly, protein OBVIOULSY cam first because PROTEIN MAKES DNA! fourthly, the meteor is a THEORY which means that its not necessarily right, and not necessarily wrong, however the HUUUUGE crater gives us a hint that it hit the earth.
wtfisindahaus 1 year ago
I think you should look at the credibility of the alternative answers. The reason the Emperor Constantine ordered the Council of Nicea was because there were hundreds of different forms of Christianity being practised throughout the Empire and they all contradicted each other. The 2 main debating points were the divinity of Jesus (half the people didn't accept that he was God) and the other was whether to include the Old Testament which they knew shows a very ugly and biased side of God.
irishdecky2 1 year ago
Up until the 17-1800s, it was scientifically accepted that God made the Earth in 6 days, 6000 years ago. Why?....because a guy called Moses said so about 3000 years ago. And why is it still believed?....It's not. People who follow religion have on average a much lower IQ score than those who don't.
irishdecky2 1 year ago
The first thing you should try to understand is that the Earth is at least 4 billion years old and that life is at least 3 billion years old. It's easy to read that quickly and move on, but take the time and try to wrap your head around that. The scale of the timeline of life is one of the most awesome things that our conscience has to deal with before we can try to educate ourselves about the origins of life.
irishdecky2 1 year ago
F.A.G
BlackBeardDelight187 1 year ago
I don't recall Darwin every saying anything about the Big Bang theory.
I bet this kid wishes his father would have evolved into an orthodontist.
therealthemichael 1 year ago
6) Elements past Fe are formed during supernovas. that's why they appeared so late (billions of years later than the lighter elements)
Niosus 1 year ago 10
single cell can divide much more easily a simple genetic fluke so eventually it mutated in a way that made single celled organisms not single celled. (our cell still reproduce asexually.) now we don't see as many positive mutations in the body because our body destroys mutated and damaged cells. (if it doesn't the cells developed into cancer.)
0nemest0 1 year ago
agreed. Also on how to go from asexual to sexual: A lot of small organisms (mostly single cell) can reproduce in both ways. When there is enough food around and certain conditions are met they can choose to reproduce by mixing their genes with another organism. These organisms don't have a sex yet so they basically can reproduce with every other organism (the evolution of sexes can be explained with cells specializing). When there is not a lot of food around they fall back to cloning themselves
Niosus 1 year ago
I wont claim to be an expert, I am not an atheist or a christian. I do, however know a few things (not expert knowledge) about the human brain. The human brain recieves info from an outside source (eyes, ears,etc.) and processes it. From our experiences and training, we form morals, from morals forms our conscience. I cannot say that the animal kingdom is devoid of conscience, but it does have morals which are much less defined and sophisticated than humans', (ie don't eat your packmates).
FadeStepper 1 year ago
Furthermore, as far as emotions are concerned, they are mostly chemical reactions in the brain. Love is a feeling we get when receptors in our brain recieve Oxytocin and Vasopressin. There are many different chemicals that create the many different feelings that we get. It's in our biology. Thx OP.
FadeStepper 1 year ago
10. Hemoglobin genes. There was one gene copy initially and gene duplication made multiple copies of the gene. After multiple copies were present the "extra" copies were able to mutate more rapidly as long as one of the copies was conserved to function in the organism. This gives us our Hb A,B,D, and F chains, all of which are important at some point in the life cycle of humans.
darwinsdangerousidea 1 year ago
dude dont say evolutionist 1 look up donexodus2 aronra or cdk007
patrickledford420 1 year ago
It's sad when guilt about "Zombie Jesus" overcomes a proper education.
Just the answer to number 10.
That would the recently seen, and new organism "Nylonase" This new organism eats nylon.
Nylon was created in 1935, so the ability to digest nylon is new information added to the "newly evolved" organisms "genome" in question.
bigboy45454545 1 year ago
7. Hydrogen formed first, then coalesced into stars by gravity. Helium is formed in regular stars, elements heavier than helium (but smaller than iron) are formed in red supergiants.
hrothgleas 2 years ago
Great questions kid. These juvenile comments your are receiving are proof of atheist ignorance. Dont be offended by this as these people are only frustrated when they realize their faith in other mens theories can not be backed by facts as they claim.
smitterxnn 2 years ago
@smitterxnn Have you ever seen the video, "Why doesn't God cure amputees", or do you simply avoid any notion that you might be incorrect?
therealthemichael 1 year ago
lmfao? these questions are Really stupid.
Plx LEARN about what ure trying to refute BEFORE questioning it.
You have a severe lack of knowledge and ure asking questions that, with ure knowledge, sounds Really awesome but are in fact Really stupid once u've gone thru a high school education.
mastela88 2 years ago
dumb kid, this is sad
smartDefender4all 2 years ago
10. There are many types of mutations in genes. One of these types is called gene duplication. This is when a certain gene is duplicated in order to make a backup copy. This extra is not necessary but can still be somewhat useful.
Then, if that backup gene becomes mutated then you have new information, without destroying any old information.
sammywilloe 2 years ago
wow. I'm not an evolutionist but i'm definately not a christian either. What are your real intentions in asking those questions? you think that if people cant answer them that evolution is false? let me ask you a couple questions, HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD EXSISTS? HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE ISN'T SOME LONG ASS STORY BOOK WRITTED BY SOME RANDOM DUDE A LONG TIME AGO? EVER THINK IT MIGHT BE ALL MADE UP? yeah, you cant prove everything! its called faith!
TJSismines 2 years ago
How about you tell me why humans have a tailbone?
And lets assume Adam and Eve were white skinned, Why aren't all humans white skinned?
Universe does not need a creator, it may be a cycle which also is eternal!
Big bang is just a theory, made by a christian.
Thanks.
Guard655 2 years ago
Personally, I highly doubt that you're asking these questions because you're curious about the answers. If you really wanted to know the answers, you could of just looked them up. The only remaining purpose I can think of for positing these questions is to make a point, which, unfortunately is not well made.
psychosavant 2 years ago 11
interesting notice how these ppl avoid answering your questions but immediately fire questions at you, in the book derren brown tricks of the mind it says ppl hu do that are trying to avoid the situation. interesting.
Conor1928 2 years ago
@Conor1928 Interesting how you type. Might it be a result of your keyboard being covered in drool?
therealthemichael 1 year ago
@therealthemichael
how am i wrong then?
Conor1928 1 year ago
@therealthemichael hahahahahhaha nice one :)
wtfisindahaus 1 year ago
1) cdk007 answers this in "The Origin of Sexual Reproduction" right here on youTube
2) I suggest picking up Robert Wright's "The Moral Animal"
3) This is silly. Are you seriously comparing the activity of single cells to that of hundreds of millions of interacting cells? I'm trying to be patient, but this really and seriously is ridiculous.
4, 6, 7) google the terms ribozyme, gamma ray bursts, Nucleosynthesis
5, 8, 9, 10) ignored, now go find out why...
Do some research, its not hard!
AutodidacticPhd 2 years ago
im 13 and dont understand half of that but i have 1 question for creationist WHAT PROOF OF "GOD" DO YOU HAVE?
solomen2345 2 years ago
The Kalam Cosmological argument.
scotzbhoy 2 years ago
That's not proof at all.
TheDarkKnight987 2 years ago
It would reflect better on you if you could actually offer a refutation rather than just say 'it's not proof'.
scotzbhoy 2 years ago
Interesting you should say that when you did not say how it was proof in the first place.
TheDarkKnight987 2 years ago
I just stated the name of the argument. You clearly know enough about it to be able to tell whether or not it provides evidence for God, so you shouldn't need me to explain why it is evidence.
scotzbhoy 2 years ago
lol gf
mahxvids 2 years ago 2
@scotzbhoy the kalam argument is wrong, quantum physics shows that particles can come from literally nothing, appearing in what was previously a vacuum.
billybobs309 1 year ago
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@scotzbhoy the kalam argument is wrong, quantum physics shows that particles can come from literally nothing, appearing in what was previously a vacuum.
billybobs309 1 year ago
@scotzbhoy
Actually, the kalam cosmological argument doesn't prove god exists, it doesn't prove he's personal, and it doesn't prove anything, it is a statement that the universe had to have a first cause. To say that is to say nothing about God you still have all your work ahead of you proving that a personal god exists.
sidelingscroll 1 year ago
@solomen2345 look at a tree, something can't come from nothing
laxter127 1 year ago
@solomen2345 well done you young good man
Alyxm 11 months ago
EM WELL YOU SEE... SHIT, PRAISE JEBUS
Alyxm 11 months ago
only a few of your questions have anything to do with evolution. most are questions concerning physics. you say early on that "you are not asking to prove creationism" yet you refer to a worldwide flood.
so i have questions for you, are you not able to tell the difference between biological evolution and theoretical physics?
what do you know about evolution?
what do you know about physics?
TheGeneral159 2 years ago
(6 cont.) but this has nothing to do with evolution but rather astronomy. why do people like you constantly equate evolution with physics?
7) elements to make the stars... hydrogen is abundant, due to gravity and friction you get stars.
8) there are actually not that many fossils when you think about it... 99% of all species that have ever existed have become extinct and we only have these few fossils left?
9) the singularity, white holes, etc.
10) akita538 below me answered well.
TheGeneral159 2 years ago
2) animals dont feel guilt or no conscience? do you REALLY want me to answer this? i sure do someone else has already... i mean... its so obvious.
3) emotions such as "love" have evolved to better protect our species. like when two people fall in love and protect their children to ensure their survival.
4) evolution explains the diversity of life. not how it started
5) the impact crater near the gulf of mexico.
6) super nova's create heavier elements essential for life.
TheGeneral159 2 years ago
So are you saying love and emotions are nothing more than chemicals?!
777ForeverChristian 2 years ago
elements higher than iron were made in supernovae which collapse then spew out elements.
Hydrogen came first then it aggregated due to gravity and collapsed into stars, then fused into heavier elements through ongoing fusion reactions
VoteNixon2008 2 years ago
Question 2: Haven't you ever seen a dog look guilty from being scolded?
Emotions are an emergent phenomenon and there is quite a bit written about this you just have to open a book.
The infrastructure for getting protein has changed. used to be that it was only RNA made into protein through a folded bit of RNA called a ribosome
The evidence that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs is that in the layer where we stop finding dino fossils there is a layer of iridium which is rare except in space.
VoteNixon2008 2 years ago
number 2 is ABSOLUTELY wrong. In an experiment with rats, rats could eat but eating would harm their neighbour, and they would starve themselves instead of hurting their neighbours. Animals have a sense of right and wrong.
Skepnostic 2 years ago
10) The information content of the genome would be increased by any change which made it more random (more Kolmogorov complexity). A mutation will generally make the genome either more random or less random. Either way the change is only rarely beneficial. That is why most mutations never even potentially get passed on. Those few which are beneficial are naturally more likely to get passed on and become increasingly common in the population - an example of natural selection in action.
Akita538 2 years ago
8: When the wind blows it sometimes picks up a small amount of dirt and comet dust. Millions of years can eventually bury things deep below the ground.
9: Nobody knows yet. Maybe we're the result of an even bigger universe crashing 2 hadron beams. *Chuckle*
10: What? Sorry I can't answer that one, I think it can be answered by a rocket scientist. I'm only 13 years old!
You ask some pretty interesting questions, though.
JordanMaster22 2 years ago
5: Maybe this didn't wipe out the dinosaurs. This is a theory. Every million years an ice age happens that lasts a million years. Maybe the ice age killed them off. Also, maybe a meteor happened too to help it, how do you explain the Gulf of Mexico?
6: Gravity, my boy. Everything has gravity, the bigger the object the more gravity causes it to compress itself into something heavier.
7: The elements to make the stars came first I think. Our sun was made when H2 compressed on itself.
JordanMaster22 2 years ago
1: I think that asexual and sexual have been around the same time and sexual did not branch off asexual.
2: Who knows? Maybe animals do have consciousness and feelings, you don't realize it because it is hard to play out of your species. Scientists said that 'life organisms' have been floating in space and maybe we caught 'planted' and 'brained'.
3: I think I explained it in 2, there's some holes in evolution but it doesn't make it wrong.
4: Maybe both?
JordanMaster22 2 years ago
Im pretty sure you have number one wrong.
catpuncher7 2 years ago
the answer to most of your questions is brain developement
laxdawgg39 2 years ago
Finally, what leads you to imagine that animals other than humans have no conscience? That's rather presumptuous. Also, man is capable of abstract thinking (including emotions, which are entirely mental processes) because his adaptation to bipedal locomotion freed his hands and allowed his forebrain to develop dramatically, which it had to do for our survival. Man is a lousy predator. Evolution gave giraffes long necks, cheetahs speed, and man wits and the capacity for abstract thinking.
jdsunnyvale 2 years ago
Most of these questions betray an igornace of what evolution is. First, it has nothing to do with the origins of the universe or of matter. Darwin wrote on the origin of *species*. Second, in the scheme of things, there aren't "so many fossils". The fossil record represents a miniscule fraction of a fraction of the organisms that have existed. Third, there is no "chicken or egg" in regards to DNA and protein. Both evolved over time as described in the volutionary model.
jdsunnyvale 2 years ago
why even make a video to answer these questions? these can all be simply be answered with google searches, stop being lazy.
pewpewlasergunz 2 years ago
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The Bible says the earth is flat.
And that the sun revolves around the earth.
And that humans are made of dirt.
And that snakes and donkeys talk.
And that insects have 4 legs.
And that bats are birds.
And that Pi = 3 rather than 3.1416...
And that animals appeared AFTER man but BEFORE woman.
This is a better source of information
than the careful collection and examination of data?
Imaginefree69 2 years ago
Q6. *facepalm* You ask great questions, though all of these are addressed in college biology, and you seem non confrontational so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. This one is not a biology question. It is astrophysics/cosmology; however, I will answer it anyway. Super novas and hyper novas. When a star's core is fused into iron, the energy input is greater than output. The star collapses on itself and explodes. This explosion unleashes the energy needed to fuse heavier elements.
biophys22 2 years ago
Q3. See answer 2.
Q4. RNA before DNA. Protein before RNA.
Q5. A large crater off the coast of the Yucatan Pens. Mexico is now the accepted crater that wiped out the dinos. It's 200 km in diameter and has been dated to be around 65 million yrs old. Furthermore, you can find shocked quartz (evidence of a enormous amount of heat and pressure) and large amounts of elements found frequently in asteroids or comets, BUT not on Earth.
biophys22 2 years ago
Q1. I don't know. That's a big question, but I assure you it is being studied.
Q2. Because we are the only animals with a developed frontal lobe. That's the part of the brain that controls all the things that would define an organism as a "human" i.e. emotion, logic, creativity.
biophys22 2 years ago
Why would you assume that matter, space, and time cannot be destroyed? Energy is always conserved, but it's possible that the total amount of energy in the universe is zero, if you add in negative gravitational potential energy.
So you don't need anything to be eternal. It's also possible that the big bang wasn't the beginning, that there's a cyclical universe.
It's possible that energy conservation is only a law upheld under most-but not all-conditions.
killingthyme 2 years ago
I don't understand why you got such a mediocre rating. These are very interesting questions.
I just have a problem with the definition 'evolutionist' it's 'ism' implies that it's an ideology which it is not.
BaileysBeads 2 years ago
dont worry you will never have sex and animals are con-shusss sides fuck Britain yeah i see better nicer answers down there but you should look at the higher sciences like quantum but hell no offense i dont think you see how it fits god is silly he was made by man when man lacked science
orkasteez 2 years ago
About the elements, stars are over mostly made of the simplest elements, hydrogen and helium (we conclude through spectroscopy). Fusion within the stars generate the heavier elements. We are literally made of stardust from stars that exploded long ago (crazy, huh?). How the simple elements formed? Subatomic big bang theories made by people far smarter than I.
FluffyBunniesOnFire 2 years ago
Wikipedia usually has the best answers to these questions, and you can always look up the scientific steps as to how those conclusions were reached. Stay away from Conservapedia, that site is an elaborate joke site.
Your questions were asked reasonably, so I hope you'll get reasonable answers. I do want to say that it's presumptive to say animals lack conscience - how could we know? Many exhibit behavioral cues that resemble conscientious actions.
FluffyBunniesOnFire 2 years ago
an easy 6/7 answer.
(at least to start with) Stars are/(were) made up only of hydrogen - the gravity of such a huge mass pulling more in from space, and causing the hydrogen atoms to fuse (only giving helium, and stuff up to iron at that point).
At the end of a stars life, It only has helium and hydrogen left - if it is big enough, it will supernova. This has enough energy to cause even heavier elements to be formed from the fusion of other things, giving us things like plutonium etc...
MetalAtheist93 2 years ago
These answers are easy to find if you get out from under your bed and take some biology, humanities and psycology classes... Your just asking the same tired questions over and over and over again...
mkr32208 2 years ago
"Animals have no concept of what is right and wrong'
That is incorrect. People make the mistake of thinking of morality as unique to them. Observe behaviour in social animals, such as wolves, who actually live by social rules, such as not to randomly attack one another, as they are dependent on one another for survival. There are more examples of morality in humans, as we are a more complex animals
weefeatures 2 years ago
If you want serious answers to your questions you can easily find them in any textbook or website (objective website). If you want ridicule and banter then read the text and watch the video responses. Some of your questions don't relate to evolution, but pursuing a higher degree in any public institution will provide you with the basics in study and research and the tools to find the answers on your own and even give you some on your way to a degree. Good luck chap!
jasondemon 2 years ago
Yet, you claim billions and billiions.
commeci1commeca 2 years ago
You should watch videos by the youtube user "thunderf00t" He might answer some of your questions regarding evolution, but he mostly owns the creationist arguments against evolution.
It's called the "Why do people laugh at creationists" series.
iPhap 2 years ago
I would have to agree that animals have a conscious. Some use facial expressions to convey feelings, they have a nervous system, and some of higher intelligence(Apes, some canines) know if they're being disobedient or doing something wrong. Then again, that might just be the product of negetive reinforcement.
Chaoticfilter 2 years ago
the answer to the first question is that as we have evolved we have become much more complex animals that need more many chromosomes to create a new life which comes from the mother and fathers dna code a single celled organism is simple enough that it can reproduce right from the dna strain while humans who's genetic code is extremely complex need many different types of proteins and dna strains which some only exist in certain genders.
espltd12 2 years ago
Your Pastor put you up to this didn't he??
You ask the 'chicken or the egg' question twice.
gregrutz 2 years ago
"prove single celled organisms don't have emotions before we continue with this one"
The burden of proof is never on anyone too prove that something DOESN'T exist. You prove that it does.
carpediemdios 2 years ago 2
"Fossilization is rare"
Rare???? You guys talk out of both sides of your mouth.
carpediemdios 2 years ago 2
I'd like to know how rare or not you think fossilization is. Please tell me, how many percent of living organisms have fossilized. Just your honest opinion.
antipul446 2 years ago
It isn't easy to become a fossil Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.
Nashy119 2 years ago
Bearing in mind that they can be buried anywhere within an area of slighly over 9.3 million square kilometres, little of which will ever be turned over, much less examined, it would be something of a miracle if they ever were.
Now tell me why fossils are common.
Nashy119 2 years ago
"Animals do have consciences"
That begs the question of when they appeared and by what means. And please don't repeat one suggestion put forth on this website that one-celled organisms may have emotions. Sheesh.
carpediemdios 2 years ago
Just a few things that spring to mind:
Q2: Animals do have consciences (putting aside the fact that we are animals) for example apes have been known to have died while trying to save others. So, empathy in this case, is not unique to humans.
Q5: Do a google search for chicxulub. It's a gigantic meteor crater located in the Yacatan peninsula.
Q7: Heavier elements are made in stars by nuclear fusion.
Q8: We don't. Fossilization is rare - just think of the number of organisms that have lived
LukeWhitehorn 2 years ago
I applaud your effort for trying to understand, but I also believe that if you were truly trying then you would have been able to answer them yourself (most).
Some of the questions posed answers, but I also get the impression that you do not have a complete grasp of simple evolutionary mechanisms. For example, traits do not need to be passed on from an ancestor species; they can evolve. Just because whales are unique doesn't mean that they couldn't have evolved for example.
davidus3 2 years ago
Interesting....search
Mathematical Proof of a Creative Intelligence
superwhuffo1 2 years ago
"prove single celled organisms don't have emotions before we continue with this one"
Do you not realize how ludicrous this statement is? Do you talk to your plants too?
carpediemdios 2 years ago 2
"Animals have no consciences? Have you ever scolded a dog before? "
You are anthropomorphizing. A dog' s reaction is basic stimulus/response behaviourism.
Don't be too hard on the kid. His point is well taken. Forgot the dog. When DID conscience appear? And by what incremental steps? Instead of jumping on the bandwagon of ridicule, honest answers to honest questions would give you more credibility.
carpediemdios 2 years ago
This kid can tell you what animals think and dont feel yet has no concept of the oragins of fight or flight.
bandwith01001 2 years ago 2
yea go to school, some of it have nothing to do with evolution,
mollen19 2 years ago
please, go to school
ampeyro 2 years ago
I think you can sort of do away with the term "evolutionists" at this point. It's sort of like people from 1000 years ago calling someone a "round earthist." I tend to just sort people into "people who understand how science works" and "people who prefer to believe in magic and refuse to learn."
The conscience one cracked me up. Animals have no consciences? Have you ever scolded a dog before?
But seriously, you could pretty much google any of these dumb questions and get good answers.
Negativepositiv 2 years ago