The Process of Evolution for Dummies: Simple Steps to Complexity

[AlzAnderson]

Blah Blah Blah.......I'll bet he still prays to God before he loses his shirt at the craps table.

[ShalomYal]

Thanks for this dice example - I will use it in my biology classes!

[willsmackyoudown]

I have question and this is serious, I'm not being a smartass. We evolved from Chimpanzees right. So neanderthals were killed off by cro magnons and we killed off the cro magnons. blah blah blah. So my question is this. Why didnt the very first evolution of the chimpanzee kill off all the other chimpanzees? Every other species that has involved to create man has killed off the other? So why did Chimpanzees last? Im really curious about that.

[dookdawg214]

@willsmackyoudown

Evolved organisms don't kill off the species they evolved from. If this were true, the earth would always have just one organism at a time. We never would've gotten past single-cell organisms, much less sponges and plants. Amphibians and reptiles came about by fish pushing their way out of the water, then adapting to their new surroundings. Why would they then go jump back into the sea and start killing off fish? They evolved because they left that environment.

[willsmackyoudown]

the sun to where a mile difference determines whether this planet is frozen in ice or burnt to a crisp. There may not be a God. But there are some forces in work in this Universe we dont know about. Cause that shit just doesnt happen. And finding water and bacteria on Mars doesnt mean theres life in this universe other than earth. Nothing has led us to believe life is somewhere else other than our imagination.

[dookdawg214]

@willsmackyoudown

A mile difference? Bullshit. It's even likely that Mars and Venus could've sustained life. And this is just our miniscule solar system. There are billions of solar systems and billions of galaxies, all with the same components, so it is highly likely that there are pleny other planets with similar biological processes.

[willsmackyoudown]

@dookdawg214

No they could not have sustained life. So many factors. That's you playing sci fi. Yeah life could be there and there probably is. But not the magnitude that Earth is. Theres no super aliens running around the galaxy.

[willsmackyoudown]

are now. A completely fuctioning human being. Now am I saying a man in white suit pointing a stick did it. No. Obviously this had to have happened. What I cant stand is you jackasses sitting here and not questioning it and throwing it all on evolution like its just a run of the mill type of thing. Because im pretty sure the big bang, an explosion of particles doesnt result in organized galaxies and solar systems. Im pretty sure planets with oxygen atmospheres arent place in the exact place from

[willsmackyoudown]

Now since you like using the dice thing. Lets use coins. Genetic mutation is like flipping a coin 30 times in a row and getting heads every single time. Thats stretching it man. Now for all that to occur in 4.5 billion years is fucking incredible. Beyond incredible. Whats even more incredible is a meteorite shower bombarded earth about 1.5 billion years ago. Which many scientists think wiped out most of the life on earth. So now we have 1.5 billion years for us to evolve all the way to what we

[willsmackyoudown]

Now. Lets look at random mutation of genetics. Which is what scientists agree is the main contribution to drastic evolution. That means most mutations that cause evolution were just random and NOT because the organism's environment affected it.

Type in Evolution 101: Mutation Is Random on Google.

It wont let me post the site for some reason

[willsmackyoudown]

now then billions of years ago. Now there are millions of species competing to survive, now should be the time of rapid evolution... I dont think we're rapidly involving. We're finding new insects in the Amazon... that have probably already been here. So something had to have occured in the early stages of the world to spawn abiogenesis and then something had to have occured to rapidly increase the speed of evolution. Keep in mind only 4.5 billion years here.

[willsmackyoudown]

had to occur, which we still dont know how that happened. Natural selection is a process in which a species evolves by taking dominant traits in better order to survive. Ok. That alone during the first stages of earth would have taken billions of years. Lets be real. Natural selection usually occurs out of neccessity. What reason would the beginning Eukaroytes have to evolve at the speed it had to evolve in. To evolve into small animals? If anything evolution should be occuring at a faster rate

[gailsteve]

Chance versus Purpose?Is this the point of your explanation about dice?

The eyeball has purpose(whether simple or complex)

Chance is mindless,nothing comes about by chance

The fact we are here and able to think shows purpose

God gives life, brought about everything from nothing.

Natural selection as an Automated survival system providing

adaptation to a changing natural world is Evident but Humans

have a special purpose all above this, a relationship with God

revealed in the Life of Jesus.Steve

[Akatam0t0ma]

@gailsteve:

"Chance is mindless,nothing comes about by chance"

Mutations come about randomly, but natural selection is not random, and thus it's not "chance".

"God gives life, brought about everything from nothing."

Once again, a baseless assertion without a shred of evidence.

"have a special purpose all above this, a relationship with God"

Same as above.

[willsmackyoudown]

@gailsteve

dude you totally not even understanding what I'm saying. Animals do evolve from each other and usually they kill of the prior existing species. Nod your head yes.

[ShalomYal]

@gailsteve In addition to the comment made - in the dice game - the snake of 6's was presumed to be fit (if you understand that). The game could be used to produce any sequence (complexity) of numbers. The process would be the same. The feature that leads to survival - i.e. a specific number - is only added if it occurs randomly - but once the feature/number do occur - they are selected for. Remember most of the "throws" of the dice result in non fitness and are not selected for.

[jusgetout]

Explain polystrate fossils then please. I'd rather have faith in a supernatural creator who gives my life a purpose for living than believe that I came from nothing and my life means nothing and I was one bad "dice throw" away from not existing.

[Akatam0t0ma]

@jusgetout:

"Explain polystrate fossils then please"

Here's a video which explain it much better than I ever could:

watch?v=fgpSrUWQplE

You are of course free to believe in a supernatural creator as you see fit, but since the idea is inherently unfalsifiable and untestable, please do not expect other people to pretend like it has anything to do with scientifically observable reality, when it clearly doesn't.

[willsmackyoudown]

@Akatam0t0ma

Lol, bro. God is farfetched I know. But dont sit here and play stupid about how evolution occurs. My biggest problem with atheists and evolutionists. I too agree evolution is how we came about. You need to understand this process is a combination of natural selection and genetic mutation. RANDOM GENETIC MUTATION. Second, lets ignore the second part and focus on the first. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Long time right? Not really. During that time. A process of Abiogenesis

[willsmackyoudown]

@jusgetout

I believe in Evolution. Yet there are many things about it you fail to explain and they are big issues.

[Diabolojr]

@willsmackyoudown Im not sure I understan what you mean either. Killing the previous species?. By the way, humans dont come from Chimps, thats a misconception. Chimps are related to humans, but they both come from a common ancestor. That common ancestor "died out". That only means that ancestor branched and one of those branches went to us. Yes they are still gaps, but they are details. Evolution has been proven by genetics. So its not about believing anymore, its about accepting the facts.

[willsmackyoudown]

@Diabolojr

I don't exactly mean that literally.I mean it was a process of natural selection. I AGREE WITH EVOLUTION. What I don't agree with is how evolutionists prance around like its abc's/ The process is whats wrong. What you're saying is a fish somehow died and was cut up and processed and magically found its way into a can buried in Alaska. its beyond expectations. Evolution could not have occured on this earth in the time it did as rapidly as it did. People need to study this process

[Diabolojr]

@willsmackyoudown sorry but I dont understand your analogy. Then, what part of evolution do you agree with? The process is what is actually called evolution. The time frame fits because the fossils give the time. The dating on them gives the million of years mark. So I really dont see where is the problem. Millions of years seems to me a reasonable time for a species to acumulate enough changes. Cont.

[Diabolojr]

@Diabolojr cont. Of course this can never be verified "as it ocurred" because of the time frame, thats why asking to reproduce the effect in a lab is really illogical. But the ramifications of the relation between species is verifiable. Genetics proves it. Biology makes sense with evolution taken into account. Medicine has been using evolutionary science for a while and it makes sense. Those applications verify the process along with fossil records.

[willsmackyoudown]

@Diabolojr

You're not getting it man. Try again

[Diabolojr]

@willsmackyoudown Is it too much to ask for a little detail? You dont agree on the time frame but you agree in the process?? so your only problem is that evolution as it is explained minus the dating is plausible, it just didnt happen because the life of the planet has been too short??

[willsmackyoudown]

@Diabolojr

Yes! Well im not saying it didnt happen. It had to happen otherwise we woudlnt be here but everyone is totally forgetting the complexity and the time limit of it. Either the universe is far older then we believe it is or something is tinkering with our genetics. Especially the complexity of human beings over animals. That leap is the greatest of all. I agree in evolution but damn there are bigger questions out there and its these questions evolutionists are just ignoring.

[Diabolojr]

@willsmackyoudown Honestly I dont have a problem with the timing, but it could be that the age of the earth is a little off, but I wouldnt say by much. Anyway. Im curious about your sugestion that something is tinkering with genetics. What do you mean by this? I saw an episode of NOVA recently that talked about how they have discovered that traumatic events can also shape our genetic code in a way. So changes can happen, from generation to generation by stuff that is not that random.

[Anghellik9]

I wish Gisburne had, well, any of his videos online. They're not even on his website anymore.

[Palluke]

Building on top of what has gone before.

I never thought of phrasing it like that. Thanks. Let there be stupid!

[anglaismoyen]

y'oreet, lad? nice video.

[OurBestLife]

i love islam :)

[j0hnwi11iams]

Sucker.

[Grymyrk]

Retard.