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Originally Posted by vvq
man. you don't even understand what im trying to explain to you. ill try again. this is a very crude explanation.
mold = cannot fathom the universe in the way perceive it.
monkey = cannot fathom the universe in the way we percieve it, but undoubtedly is more complex and intelligent than mold, but is still a long ways a way from understanding things the way we do.
humans = we all know what it's like to be human. we're able to reflect on all of the other lifeforms and undoubtedly know we are more intelligent than them.
now, this next part is where you're having problems. i guess in whatever school you went to they taught you that evolution was a system that once existed, but is now no longer in use? they told you mother nature retired?
evolution does not stop. right now you are unable to fathom what complexities a few more billion or even million years of evolution might bring forth. it's like mold trying to learn calculs, it's just not possible. either the concept clicks with you and you realize anything is possible, or you're just a religious nut playing for the wrong team.
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Where did I say that evolution has stopped? Of course I know that evolution is an ongoing presence. I think you have misundestood, or I have misunderstood - I thought you were trying to say that because we have made it this far, then there must be other entities more advanced than us.
If you are referring to where I said that simple genetic mutation in a multicell organism no longer relates to evolution, then yes, evolution in that way is pretty much non-existent - or at teh very least at a rate million-fold less than single-cellular organisms.
No, evolution now occurs in the germline - the sperm or the oocyte where the progeny has the advantages...
Unless of course you are talking about non-natural evolution ie where we are now more evolved than for example our great great grandfathers. Genetically and naturally, we are the same, yet our knowledge has evolved...
Sorry I wasn't clear, but I do fully understand evolution, believe it, and am living proof that it is ongoing
