Re: Tough Questions for Atheists #5: Human Evolution and Surviva

[PyroMancer2k]

Some Indian tribes hunted Bears with nothing more then sharpened sticks. Often in 1 on 1 fights with the bear. If I'm not mistaken it was a right of passage. They got the bear to stand up on it's hind legs then come lunging down on them as it was a common bear attack method. The bear would end up throwing itself onto the stick and impale itself.

Not sure how well their tactic would work on lions.

[The0Kitch]

ha is that master of puppets i hear at the start??? :L Bril

[mikealex08]

You're a fucking loser. Just face it, don't argue, you are a fucking loser. And you're making yourself look like a complete goof to the entire internet.

[morsec0de]

Thank you, little boy. Your opinion is very important to me...

[The0Kitch]

actually his facts are coheirentand well explained,

your comment isn't making you look any way intelligent ...

[ColoradoMikeyS]

God is Santa Claus for adults.

[PuppetXeno]

Well done, you summed it all up. Man's survivor mechanism is the brain, developing techniques and tools to make life safer, more efficient, eventually easier, and more comfortable. This trait has only expanded over time, we build massive structures, we put sattelites around the earth for communications, we find treatments against killer diseases etc. That's how we've evolved, and that's how we survive.

[BoozyBeggar]

I think there have been times where lions with horrible dental hygiene (couldn't think of a better way to say bad toofers, unfortunately) have begun to prey on humans. I would imagine that the coevolution of their normal prey meant that with all the pain that comes from broken teefers and such they couldn't bite as hard or for as long as normal and were driven to try and find weaker prey, and some of them just happened upon villages at night, and so learned. These are solitary lions, mind you.

[middlekk]

Baboons, bonobos, chimps, gorillas, orangs and all of the other primate species seem to do just fine in their native environments.

Why should ancient hominin species be any different? They were adapted to their environments.

You're seeking complex answers to what fundamentally is a simple question.

Why did ancestral species survive in their environment? Because they were adapted to that environment. Simple.

[KingTheist23]

Thank you for the response morsce0de! Sorry I did not respond sooner, I hate the fact that YouTube has the 'video responses' section on the homepage but it never shows when someone posts a video response... silly... I will post a response in the next few days.

[IceMetalPunk]

Nice. You seemed to hit every point, though it's been a few days since I've watched KT23's video, so I don't know if he mentioned anything else.

However, your comment on "evolution has not had enough time to physically change us radically" should be revised to "evolution did not...". Why? Society and medicine has pretty much F'd up natural selection in humans (PM me for more detail), so I doubt we will evolve physically or mentally any farther, beyond POSSIBLY becoming a smarter species.

-IMP

[AtheistAtLARGE]

skin tones was an accelerated change due to the suns radiation, or lack there of.

The first signs of skin lightening seem to have had a positive sexual selection in the species

Why do theists ask stupid questions ?

[morsec0de]

Of all the theists, King Theists seems to be a good one. Meaning, he seems to be legitimately asking and desiring an answer. He'll argue if he disagrees, but he doesn't give me the impression that he's willfully ignorant.

[AtheistAtLARGE]

ok, Ill take your word for it, guess Im a bit jaded from all the stupidity I see in theists that come by in the chat room

[CatholicofRome]

AtheistAtLARGE, don't be too hard on theists, sometimes I think to myself how stupid and irrational atheists are. I know what you are talking about, there are many theists that post comments that are fiery, emotional and very poorly argued and thought out, but I see just as many of those from the atheist side of the argument. Doesn't matter what your side it, if you can't argue it respectfully and rationally then you don't belong in the debate.

[MrBiological]

Humans like most apes are communal animals. Hominids don't solo. Safety in numbers, plus swapping of ideas, genes, and other neat stuff... anyways I bet you if walkout side your house right now you might see another Homo Sapien, why is that? Also look up the effects on people who are solitary confined, pretty awful what happens mentally. Humans want to communicate, it's written in our DNA, and that's our survival strategy.

[sabertooth1980]

That's why we are here on youtube sometimes. Reaching out and trying to figure out if there is another sapien out there.

[jollychris1010101]

A good rebutal to his points well done.

[morsec0de]

Cheers.

[Atheistblindchick]

well said...

You could have mentioned that we as humans did not suddenly appear, but that our ape ancestors alread had knowledge that they were able to convey... Look at other ape species (yes, we too are apes), they know for example what to eat and what not to eat, and they are able to pass thqt knowledge on...

[morsec0de]

A very good point. Thanks.

I think I was talking fast enough just to keep this all in one video, hehe, so that may be why I left a LOT of stuff out.

[jfredett]

Punctuated Equilibrium is the observation that Evolution happens slowly in big populations, and quickly in small ones. Simply because useful genetic changes can become ubiquitous more quickly. The idea is that a splinter group of a population will break off, evolve a useful adaptation apparently quickly, then reintegrate and spread those genes to main population. Good example is the reptiles that were found on the island recently, name escapes me. They evolved plant eating organs. Damn Char lim.

[morsec0de]

Thank you.

[jfredett]

No problem, punctuated equilibrium is one of the weirder bits of evolutionary theory, and consequently, also my favorite. :)

[unclexbob]

very good rebuttals

congrats