02/09/2010 03:46:49 PM EST
An Intelligent Blog
posted by MC Stevie
"I would love to have the faith to believe that the earth is only 6000 years old... BUT... I have thoughts."
Lewis Black (one of my favorite comedians) says it plain and simple right there. There are some people in this world that just go about life believing whatever they hear because whoever said it was good at public speaking. I cant stand people that are so blinded by their feelings or stubborn thoughts that they completely ignore facts. They don't choose to research what they preach and they dont want to hear it when someone has a sensible argument against theirs.
l really want to talk about Anti-evolutionists. There arent many people that believe the Earth-is-6000-years-old thing, but there are TONS of anti-evolutionists. Mostly christians, these people think that everybody is related through Adam and Eve. The entire earth... all cousins. They say there are many holes in the theory of evolution, but they neglect the fact that the Bible talks of stories of giants, and an Ark, carrying 2 of every animal in existance. People who have only had science classes at a high-school level (and many that have already forgotten it), slandering Darwin: one of the most brilliant scientific minds of all time.
Here are their reasons for their beliefs:
Our body systems are way too complex to have been a random act of nature. They must have been designed and createdWhile i have no problem with the idea of God designing us, the argument that it is too complex to just happen over time is simply wrong. Evolution is not random. Mutations may be random, but natural selection is not. Its just a matter of small changes over long, long periods of time. When one member of a species has a gene that is good (for instance, longer claws), then that member will mate, and hopefully the gene will be passed down and kept through generations until all the members of the species have it. While if its a bad gene (shorter claws), then the gene will die out because the specie will need longer claws to survive, and the memebrs with the bad gene will not live as long. Natural selection is the key element in evolution
No Transitional Forms have been found in the fossil record
Actually ya. ya there has. Heres a list (with pics if u wanna check it out)
Ardipithecus- (monkey-lookin)
http://www.talkorigins.org/
faqs/homs/sangiran17.jpgAustralopithecus afarensis - (big-jaw, small head. Lucy)
http://www.boneclones.com/i
mages/bh001_web-lg.jpgAustralopithecus Robustus (more human-like gorilla)
http://www.skullsunlimited.
com/graphics/bh-003-lg.jpgHomo Habilis (first to walk upright, used tools. think Early Cavemen)
http://www.geneticarchaeolo
gy.com/Images/Homo_habilis.
jpgHomo Erectus (Neanderthal. Think Geico Cavemen)
http://starcosmos.files.wor
dpress.com/2009/05/t012882b
.jpgHomo Sapiens (Us. what we are today)
http://www.glendale.edu/sku
ll/homo_sapien2/homo_sapien
2_l.jpgEvolution is not testable and requires faith like creationism
If you havent noticed, it HAS been tested.
Every new fossil discovered.
Every new genome sequenced
New species discovered
New simulation run-
Is a test of the theory.
Scientists accept evolution based on evidence, not faith. If they do doubt it, they can examine it. And of course it can be proven wrong. Just find a paleozoic chicken. Or a pre-cambrian horse
Humans have never seen evolution happening
Ya, we see it a lot actually. We’ve seen speciation, variation of a feature in a species based on environmental change. Humans have actually unknowingly driven evolution through selective breeding. Do you have a dog? It used to be a wolf. There are DDT resistant insects, anti-biotic resistant bacteria, drug resistant HIV. Its all around us! And yes, that IS evolution. Evolution happened by little changes over time. Are those not changes? (Big or little?)
Speciation has never been observed
Sorry to be redundant, but yes, we’ve seen this too.
Culex Molestus (a type of mosquito) evolved from Culez Pepiens (I’m not just using big words, look it up if you think I am). There are many others as well. But anti-evolutionists say that this is just a member of one “kind” changing into a different member of the same “kind”. But “kind” is not a scientific term… Every time we find evidence, it changes the meaning. They they say “Well, show us a fish that turned into a monkey.” Fossil records show that that took over 400,000,000 years. And thats a long damn time.
All Mutations are Bad
Have you never seen Spiderman??? I say that jokingly, but the notion that all mutations are bad is simply ludicrous (not the rapper…). Studies have shown that a lot of mutations have no effect. The ones that do are either good or bad. Species with bad mutations die off and good genes get passed on through generations. Yup, there are actual studies, done by real scientists in labs, making mutations and testing their effects. Wow… backing up your side with evidence… whodathunkit?????
Good mutations:
HIV becoming resistant to drugs
Bacteria becoming resistant to anti-biotics
Insects becoming resistant to DDT
There is evidence against Evolution
Fact is, there IS evidence FOR evolution. Over 200,000 scientifically reviewed articles in the past century… amounting to millions of pieces of evidence. There has been absolutely NO evidence to counter evolution. THAT is a fact.
And no, we aren’t hiding evidence that it doesn’t exist. If it could be proven that it doesn’t exist, the discoverer would win the Noble Prize. Any scientist would jump on that opportunity.
"It is wiser to find out than to supose."
-Mark Twain
