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Originally posted by Joe Citizen
The one thing that all those in this thread arguing against evolution have in common is a basic ignorance of the subject.
If you are going to argue against something it's a good idea to actually KNOW something about it in the first place.
Arguing from ignorance is as pointless as pissing in the wind.
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution"
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975)
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Joe you're probably a bio major eh? Your post on evolution is excellent. So was Amp.
Anyway, people are looking at evolution the wrong way. It's not a single pathway, like a straight line from chimip to man. It's more like a family tree with multiple branches. A human specie like the Neanderthal was outsted by our modern human ancestor (this is still debatable, but debatable using evidence).
A core to evolution is the theory of natural selection. It is a simple concept that if one specie or a few individual within a specie adapt better, than that specie or unique individual within that specie may survive to reproduce and the rest may simply go extinct.
The shortest span of evolution I have heard of was on the English peppered Moth (I think that was the specie, every bio. major knows this, so correct me if I'm wrong). Before the industrial revolution, in Great Britain this English moth was mainly white in coloration. However, during the industrial revolution, smog became a problem and white moths were easily spotted by predators such as birds and lizards.
A few mutated black moths that were easily spotted before now thrive in this environment since they were better camaflage. As a result, white moths were dying out while black moths due to a mutation survive to reproduce, thus creating a new species of moth with different genetic traits.
Humans have 23 pair of chromosomes. If we had one more pair, 24, we wouldn't be humans, we'll be gorillas. One extra pair of chromosome makes alot of difference.
