Regarding evolution

[Drake]

Yesterday their was a 5 page discussion about evolution. Most agree that is exists and is the explanation for the life we see around us.

Just to clarify my position. First, I'm not religious and secondly, I think science holds the key to answers. However, as it stands evolution falls short of explaining the immense diversity we see in living things.

Does natural selection occur? Yes sometimes, not always. In isolation we can observe it occur. But life is never taken in isolation. We can look at sickle cell and malaria, but what about all the thousands of other diseases out there. If we focus on sickle cell and malaria in isolation it appears to prove it exists and works. Have we shown in the lab germs mutating? Yes in some germs we have, not always and not for all germs.

Even assuming that natural selection and germ mutation is a given, their still remains an huge "fill-in-the-blank" as to how we would have evolved from single cells. To brush it off by saying, well it's a process that takes millions of years, isn't a thorough enough answer. It's not a scientific answer. Each creature on earch is composed of billions of cells, cells for the eye, the brain, the heart, the skin, and so on. To take what we know about natural selection and germ mutation and extrapolote that they account for us and all living things is not proven or a given. It also does not prove beyond doubt that we evolved from other creatures, which seems proposterous.

For one, it would require millions of ideal conditions to have existed on earth to produce one creature and/or one group of living things much less all the millions of creatures that co-exist in harmony on earth.

It has not been proven or demonstrated that a single cell was able to survive and to work in concert to create living things composed of more than just one cell.

Off the top of my head yesterday I proposed 3 criteria which I think are fair and scientific, that if met, we could assume with greater certainty the validity of evolution:


1) Dig up all the missing links and put them in a row so we can see how apes turned into man. This way we could see the sequence of man evolving.

and

2) Demonstrate in the lab evolution at work. Speed up the process so we can see a single cell becoming varied species or able to develop in concert to create a living creature, the simplest of living creatures like an insect which in itself is so complicated and their are millions of insects on the planet.

and

3) Create life in the lab. If one is able to create life in the lab, we could say they probably know something about the origin of life and life development. So far, we can't create life. We can only inject it with genes or chemicals, or kill it. The ability to create even the simplest form of life, a single cell, would give validity to the big bang theory because we could show that single cells derive from a combination of rock and minerals.


Evolution is an incomplete theory, a speculative theory, which holds a lot of promise. It is far from perfect and has not been proven to be able to explain life as we see it on earth.

[freeadultcontent]

One two and three will be soon Master frankenstien.

[Drake]

Originally posted by freeadultcontent
One two and three will be soon Master frankenstien.

It would be awesome if it could be, and I certainly hope it will!