Old stuff? Then I guess my university teaches the wrong stuff then...
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Old stuff? Then I guess my university teaches the wrong stuff then...
most intro bio courses teach the basics. how are you to expect to grasp complex ideas without knowing the basics ?
unfortunately thats the way with science, and i dont really agree with the way it is taught either, but since new stuff seems to happen every year or so, they cant all keep up realistically.
if u like the subject, you can always attend lectures that the researchers give every month or so. sometimes you can meet a celebrity of their world lol...
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"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Scientists have gotten closer to the ancestor that humans and primates share before evolution split the two. The oldest hominid that has been found thus far is Ardipithecus. And, we did NOT spawn from sand and ashes, that and other things including the english translation of the Koran, just make me believe that whoever wrote the books, was smoking something that the rest of you probably want. That is why I believe evolution is real. And you religious people out there can think of it like this: We are a petri dish colonization in God's lab, he has flipped genetic switches that would have us evolve.
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I think the easiest way for religion to fit is to say that God created the Big Bang and basically controlled everything leading up to our creation through evolution. The Bible (and all other holy books) are symbolical.
Yes, God is an evil genius and we (the universe) are his petri dish colony.
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I don't really find our life diverse, btw. It's all based on the same stuff, heck, even has a common ancestor, it seems. Don't see anything diverse here. Everything has cells, breathes oxygen (excluding low level junk), and the high level creatures especially are all very similar to each other.
I don't really find our life diverse, btw. It's all based on the same stuff, heck, even has a common ancestor, it seems. Don't see anything diverse here. Everything has cells, breathes oxygen (excluding low level junk), and the high level creatures especially are all very similar to each other.
So you are throwing away the entire theory simply because you do not think the world is diverse?
So you are throwing away the entire theory simply because you do not think the world is diverse?
No, just parts of it. And, generally, I don't specifically throw away evolution. I just prefer to say it's hardly explains everything nor is it the only possible answer. Therefore, I do not believe in it, as the one and only theory.
Small-scale evolution is pretty hard to throw away so I automatically assumed this thread was specifically about the kind of evolution that says humans originated from bacteria.
So you are throwing away the entire theory simply because you do not think the world is diverse?
No, just parts of it. And, generally, I don't specifically throw away evolution. I just prefer to say it's hardly explains everything nor is it the only possible answer. Therefore, I do not believe in it, as the one and only theory.Small-scale evolution is pretty hard to throw away so I automatically assumed this thread was specifically about the kind of evolution that says humans originated from bacteria.
what! there are plenty of examples of macroevolution! you can have genetic drift, horizontal transfer, allopatric speciation...
I do not recall seeing any flying radiation immune tigers yet.
I see what you mean, but you are throwing away almost all of the evolution theory.
You can not simply say you believe in micro-evolution and not believe in macro-evolution. It is a paradox. It would be like me saying that I believe in humans, but not cells. It is a mathematically impossible. Why? Because macro-evolution is simple a lot of micro-evolution. You can say that we are another species of a lost primate, and we survived because out intelligence had such a huge advantage over the rest the primates that we literally exploded in population.
It would be like believing in millimeters, but not kilometers. Macro-evolution just takes place longer, and is a term used when a species "creates" its own species when it adapts so much due to natural mutations that it literally moves away from the very species it was once in.
what! there are plenty of examples of macroevolution! you can have genetic drift, horizontal transfer, allopatric speciation...
I do not recall seeing any flying radiation immune tigers yet.
oh a joke.
if youre serious, its because theres nothing driving tigers to fly yet, or have immunity to radiation. tigers are actually an apex predator in their natural environments.
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"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
unfortunately thats the way with science, and i dont really agree with the way it is taught either, but since new stuff seems to happen every year or so, they cant all keep up realistically.
if u like the subject, you can always attend lectures that the researchers give every month or so. sometimes you can meet a celebrity of their world lol...
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Macroevolution? No.
Then how do you explain the diversity of life?
And you didn't answer my question!
Yes, God is an evil genius and we (the universe) are his petri dish colony.
I don't really find our life diverse, btw. It's all based on the same stuff, heck, even has a common ancestor, it seems. Don't see anything diverse here. Everything has cells, breathes oxygen (excluding low level junk), and the high level creatures especially are all very similar to each other.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
So you are throwing away the entire theory simply because you do not think the world is diverse?
Small-scale evolution is pretty hard to throw away so I automatically assumed this thread was specifically about the kind of evolution that says humans originated from bacteria.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
I see what you mean, but you are throwing away almost all of the evolution theory.
You can not simply say you believe in micro-evolution and not believe in macro-evolution. It is a paradox. It would be like me saying that I believe in humans, but not cells. It is a mathematically impossible. Why? Because macro-evolution is simple a lot of micro-evolution. You can say that we are another species of a lost primate, and we survived because out intelligence had such a huge advantage over the rest the primates that we literally exploded in population.
It would be like believing in millimeters, but not kilometers. Macro-evolution just takes place longer, and is a term used when a species "creates" its own species when it adapts so much due to natural mutations that it literally moves away from the very species it was once in.
if youre serious, its because theres nothing driving tigers to fly yet, or have immunity to radiation. tigers are actually an apex predator in their natural environments.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."