7 -- The Theory of Evolution Made Easy (for schools)

This is #7 in the series that looks at our origins, from the big bang to the human migration out of Africa. This version has been edited for use in schools.

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[truthforchrist]

Thank you for the response, and again, please do not think I'm trying to argue :) Is it possible that we may never find the gaps in the fossil record? Can an event cause dead bodies to never be fossilized (for example, can a comet or volcano vaporize them)? Or is it as simple as the fossils just haven't been found yet?

[potholer54]

@truthforchrist =Is it possible that we may never find the gaps in the fossil record?= Not just possible, but a certainty. If you find a fossil to fill a gap between two fossils, you open up two new gaps. If you find two fossils to fill those gaps, you now have four more gaps. Most organisms don't fossilize, by the way, especially land organisms.

[truthforchrist]

If I may ask a question, you said there is still more that needs to be understood about all science. While I will certainly not say you are wrong, my question is, what areas of evolution are not fully understood? Your videos make evolution pretty easy to understand, so im wondering what do scientists still not know about the subject?

[potholer54]

@truthforchrist =what areas of evolution are not fully understood?= There are still huge areas yet to understand. In biology, what drives the changes that are naturally selected? In paleoanthropology, why did we lose our body hair? Why did we stand upright? In paleontology there are still gaps in the fossil record that need to be filled. That doesn't detract from the huge amount of information we already have, but we can always learn more.

[TheMrFourteen]

@potholer54 i'm an atheist and thought that your logic about gravity and evolution was very amusing. However, just because gravity is true, it doesn't mean evolution is too. however, i think your point is that people don't dismiss gravity as "just a theory" so why evolution? i looked more into depth about gravity, and im confused about whether its a law, theory, or observation. explain?

[potholer54]

@TheMrFourteen - An observation is just that – We “observe” the positions of planets, for example. From that we infer that they are orbiting the sun, and from that we infer that masses are attracted by gravity. And we infer that the same theory holds good for falling objects. The law of gravity is the mathematical relationship of this attraction. So there is a theory of gravity and a law of gravity, and both are based on observations.

[Misterb0z]

@fred1671 So go on, then. Say for the sake of argument I worship a sun god. I deny nuclear physics. It's clearly a fabricated 'science' designed to separate man from the Truth of the Sun god. Matter can't fuse. Nobody's ever witnessed it happening.

What do you say to me?

[fred1671]

@Misterb0z I've been known to enlighten a few wayward drifters from time to time, so why not toss in some time-traveling, ancient Egyptians for good measure.

Let me know the time and date of the field trip - I'm ready to kick this party into high gear.

[Misterb0z]

@fred1671 "The theory of evolution (was).... constructed for the sole purpose of separating man from God."

If an ancient Egyptian were to travel to us in a time machine, they might argue that current atomic theory that explains the way the sun shines is merely a 'fiction constructed to separate man from Isis'. Would you bother to try to enlighten them? Perhaps you would introduce them to your more modern idea of a god that is not refuted by atomic theory.

[fred1671]

@truthforchrist Also worth noting... Carbon dating was on track to change the world and the mind-set of every man, woman and child believing in God, However, some of the fossils that were once thought to be 100's of millions of years old were re-tested and found to be roughly 12 -15 thousand years old. This information and said fossils were quickly gathered and destroyed, so as not to cause a massive butterfly-effect through the annals of our horrifically inaccurate history books.

[fred1671]

@truthforchrist Simply stated... the theory of evolution is merely a construct - the meaningless existence of illogical and adventitious ideals, created for the sole purpose of separating man from God.

I'll be flamed and ridiculed for making such an assessment, but we all know that debating this theory is completely argumentum ad nauseam! Scientist know it never be accepted (as law) by the Catholic Church and there is nothing they can say or do to change it from a fiction novel to fact.

[PointlessSteel]

@sallyamis if there is a long period of time between the two fossils, it is impossible to think there was no natural selection in between. It can take it's course over shorter periods of time as well, unless the species are too close together in time. Then it would appear as if one suddenly gave birth to another, but we know that does not happen.

[skarloeyable]

@2camjohn I'm currently imagining hundreds of little Potholers running about in a big warehouse somewhere. FYI, they all look like dwarfs from Snow White.

[2camjohn]

LOL they made the British narrator say zeeebra (American) instead of zebra (English).