Discovering Religion - Part 7: Transitional Species

[roadsideflowers]

I dunno crazy lady, I've seen quite a few monkeys masquerading as people.

[snackynak]

I've never found a crocoduck, but I found this thing with a duck-like bill, beaver tail, vemonous barbs, and it lays eggs. I think it lives in ray comfort's native country.

[birdandthe]

another nail in the rotting coffin of creationists, they make me sick.

[stephen2152002]

Apes were biologically engineered into humans. The question is, who did this? That explains the deficit and abrupt change, so no missing link is needed. Look it up. Has to do with aliens lol. Sounds crazy, I know. Also, new research suggests an asteroid with bacteria hit earth and life grew. Or God exists and we are the most dominant and only intelligent beings in the universe; and you go to hell when your bad- thats 90%

[andyzohoury]

I know these conspiracy theories, and although very entertaining, they are no better than the creationist's hypothesis for how life began. I am a scientist and I always try to think like one when approaching new information, no matter what it. There is absolutely no evidence aliens genetically engineered us. However, what there is evidence for is evolution. There are over 20 different transitional hominid species in the fossil record. So we weren't genetically engineered and God did deign us.

[TuPaCaLyPsE1872]

is that woman fucking serious "where are the monkey babies?" Wow, what a fucking tool, seriously, to any christian, believe whatever crazy shit you want, but please, for the love of YOUR god, don't teach that shit to your child, it just rots their brain and completely fucks up their ability to gain knowledge after being deluded that badly. Seriously, christians, fuck off.

[isamu135]

"Why are there still apes?" Stupid question..

Americans are descendent from Europe, why are there still Europeans around?

[hismadjesty]

It's also funny when they say "if humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes here?" umm... because they didn't all commit suicide when they saw their cousins being all "more evolved" and stuff? This would also be the reason all the fish didn't die out when the first land-dwellers started crawling out of the ocean.

[hismadjesty]

It's funny when they quote Darwin's saying he couldn't find any fossil records showing transitional forms. That was 200 years ago and no-one was looking. For 200 years, people have been looking, and finding a lot.

[wizardninja]

cells to fish to reptiles and (eventually at some point in time) mammals? Insects i assume came from the sea as well as plants...then the big comet killed off most of the great big reptiles but leaving smaller reptiles still alive including small mamals, then some mamals went back to the water thus becoming ancestors to the whales during which time large dinosaur (reptilian) water species died off but still allowing large mamal type species to survive? But fish were always present...

[daskallu]

@wizardninja cells evolved after millions of years into invertebrates. arthropods, wich are a very huge family of invertebrates, contain other subfamilies like crustaceans, trilobites and later xexapods(primitive insects), myriapods and chelicerates.

insects and fish are completly different families of animals. Although they started from the same ancestor, they are invertebrates and respectively, vertebrates, a huge difference.

[daskallu]

@wizardninja, hexapods* my mistake there

I can't remember the name now, but there was at some point an invertebrate, with just a barely visible spine. Ofcourse not as durable as yours or a fish's, it was probably very spongy and weak, but it was the beginning of the primitive vertebrates.

Also, there were no large sea mammals when the dinosaurs and large reptilian sea creatures died out, 65 mil years ago. Cetaceans, I think, appeared 50 mil years ago.

[daskallu]

@wizardninja, in fact the doglike creature in this video, shows how cetaceans evolved. Also, note than cetaceans(dolphins, whales and narwhal, all 3 are moder representatives) and completely different from seals and their family. Seals are pinnipeds and evolved around 20 mil years ago from a bearlike ancestor.

You can read more if you want on wikipedia, it's a great site for starting :).

Also, as a base rule, don't consider that cells evolved into fish, wich evolved into reptiles, then mammals.

[daskallu]

@wizardninja, you can say that cells eventually evolved into mammals, or even fish, although a very small group of fish actually evolved into land animals ( check out animal armaggeddon fall of the fish age, or something, from zuke696's channel)

I'm not 100% sure, but i think fish evolved into amphibians, and then, this group split into (atleast) 2 groups, one eventually becoming the reptiles as we know them, the other, mammals.

do check wikipedia tho, and zuke696,if this interests you:)takecare

[TuPaCaLyPsE1872]

Don't quote me, but im pretty sure mammals evolved from reptiles. The Platypus and Echidna are both mammals that still lay eggs. They also don't have nipples, they secrete milk through their skin to feed their young. Cool stuff, eh?

[hismadjesty]

Not all fish were always present. There were plenty of large and powerful species that dominated before sharks kicked their tail-fins.

[wizardninja]

How is it that plants survived and dinosaurs (among other creatures) died off? wouldnt a large amount of smoke covering the earth cause a break in the seasonal activities of plants during that time if they existed? Life apparently begins in the sea,  so plants would also have to as well. Where do insects fall into the theory of evolution? Where do they originate and whats their common ancestor?

[MarxIzalias]

Because plants have seeds which can survive under ground without growing until a chemical trigger sets it off.

[DarthVega7]

What about the lungs? If they had gills, they couldn't have lived on land. If they had lungs, they couldn't have been in the water. If they had both... well how? How would they have known that they needed lungs? How does this information get passed to the genes? How do they obtain this information in the first place? Evolution makes no sense.

[andyzohoury]

LOL Youre asking a lot of questions you could answer for yourself if you took the time to study. If you are in college spare a few credits on an evolutionary biology course or take some genetics. Amphibians can live in water and on land by breathing through their skin and lungs. However, they are tied to the water for reproduction. Reptiles are the next evolutionary step up, moving away from the water b/c their eggs developed a hard shell. Natural selection favors variations based on environment

[andyzohoury]

Remember, every animal you see today is a modern animal. There are billions of year of evolutionary history, when such a different array of animals existed that we cannot even imagine. Even 300 million years ago when the atmosphere was higher in oxygen there were dragonflies the size of eagles. Hell, just a100 thousands years ago there were giant ground sloths over 17 feet tall. We cant know every single step in evolution, but what we do know is that evolution is an indisputable fact.

[MarxIzalias]

"If they had lungs, they couldn't have been in the water." One answer, Dolphins...

So go fuck off asking dumb questions and do some proper research.

[16and30]

and another thing is the noahs ark story,basicaly noah gathered all of his close family and 2 of every species in an ark to protect it from a mass killing(flood).. after the flood soppusedly the couple will try to mate and produce offspring but inbreeding wont sustain a specie..and inbreeding in people is a death to the human specie aswell.

[16and30]

i always argue to my religion teacher (though i am christian) that if the story is creation is true? (according to the bibble),why are there dinosaur fossils found!??

[16and30]

i am christian but i am open to this evolution science things..i think strong faithed christains think that there is no evolution because go created animals trhrouh his vission (see creation in bibble);;faith will be fath but in reality evolution is taking in place...

[LordSlag]

WOW!!! At 2:48 there is this beautiful, OVER-ENDOWED, huge brained woman. I hope she finds and equally good looking, huge brained man and has a billion kids with him.

Excellent video!

[andyzohoury]

I agree!

[kelfid]

"Oh God what a numb nut !" lmao. Great vids, thank you. More people should watch these.

[Kurtlane]

That woman at 1:07 asks not a really good question, but it has a good core.

And the answer is that it does happen. Sometimes people are born with tales. Sometimes people are born with two rows of nipples instead of two nipples.

But monkey is too far from humans, so people cannot give birth to monkeys.

So good core of the question, honestly asked, for which there is a good answer.

Kirk, Cameron, on the other hand, is a dishonest wheeler-dealer.

[OccamsRzzr]

Cameron is a donkey poo.

[PeHoz]

Could not be that just recently instinct creatures ?...since in the last 100 years we ha so many..... in a couple thousand we can have more.... before we say transitional species...

[shumebute]

the crocoduck? what an ignorant... why does he make a fool of himself... i do belvie in god but evolution is a beautiful theory, and both god and evolution can live together

[argetfalcon]

I thought the fossil she found was tiktallik

[andyzohoury]

Hello, thanks for watching. Clack discovered Acanthostega in Greenland in 1987. You can search wiki for "Jennifer A. Clack" for the reference.

[argetfalcon]

Oh I thought that was referencing the 2005 discovery of tiktalik. I often get the two mixed up

[flyingscience]

Kirk Camerom is Gods gift of Christian poster boy of dumb creationists .

[majesticrecords]

kirk cameron is a dummy