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Originally posted by On-top
It's gradual. You don't have a donkey flop out a york terrier. You're correct. But given environmental changes...animal bodies adapt differently. Given hundred of thousands of births of a species in new environments..the ones with the most survivable characteristics are the ones that are most likely to survive and reproduce.
Have you ever seen the 13 yr. old girl that can climb walls, etc..and has beat all the women in almost every climbing even event? She's faster, more agile, has a longer reach, etc.
She moved to Africa when she was only 4...and her only real friend and influence was this pet monkey she had. Well...she learned to climb trees, jump form one limb to another, etc. But since she was so young, and her bones were still impressionable...here hands and body grew different than yours and mine.
Here arm span is longer than her height. Not extreme..but more like that of a monkey. If you look at her fingers, her joints/knuckles are oversized and her fingers look different. Here grip is unbelievably strong. She's just a regular girl..but she has amazing capabilities.
I'm not saying she partially turned into a monkey...but I'm saying our bodies, and those ov other living things, are built to adapt. The ones that do it best survive the best. And if this girls was part of a tribe..and they lived in isolation for thousands and thousands of years doing monkey like stuff..they would probably look different, and have different capabilities than you and I.
Evolution is a very, very slow process. But sometimes it does get jump starts...such as environmental changes (ice ages, etc), isolation, radiation, chemical reactions, etc.
For 13-year-old Tori Allen, the youngest of the top U.S. boulderers, the sky's the limit, because she can climb like ... well, like a monkey
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Again, she is still a human and not a new species. Even if she had children and hundreds of generations of children after her, that all shaped their bones to grow that way, they would all still be humans. Human anatomy is much deeper than just physical appearance, i am sure you agree. Just because an entire clan of people have hair all over their body and down to their ankles, does not make them a different species, nor will they ever evolve into a new species. Sure it's possible that if a woman and man start creating children that have longer arm bone structure and what not, but underneath the exterior, they are still a human species and will never produce anything other than human species, unless they can alter their DNA and genetic make up as well. All through history, there has NEVER been a case of this happening. Humans may have evolved in their appearance, but there is no proof that we are the product of another species. We may be SIMILIAR to other species, but it's not possible for a species to give life to anything but their own. There's no evidence of it and no matter how hard science tries to force it, it has not been done yet. Maybe in the future it could be possible, but as of now... it hasn't happened naturally or forcefully. So to think humans or any other creature, has evolved from the same cell or from other existing creatures, is unlikely and cannot be proved by either records or fossils, same as creation.
If humans evolved from other species, there would be "halfway" points, such as half human/half apes etc. Like you said, evolution is slow... so therefore, there would be other fossils and archeological finds of remains that would provide evidence of the missing link, but it has never been discovered and I don't believe it ever will be. So ruling out creation would be just as naive as ruling out evolution, because there is no exact proof of either. Faith is not fact, that's why it's hard to prove one's belief, compared to one's findings.
Again, I believe in evolution, as a universe and planet, but not as another species to form another. People produce red hair, blonde hair, black hair, blue eye, brown eye, light skin, dark skin kids... but they are all still of human species, like pit bulls and maltese are still the same species, even though they don't look alike. If humans start having purple and green polka dotted kids with 6 toes and 9 fingers per limb, that would still be another race/ethnicity and not a whole new species.