How fast is the change? The speed of evolution is related to generation times: thirty minutes for bacteria up to thirty years for elephants and other large mammals. Where change is too fast for a species then it goes extinct. The environment for Passenger Pigeons changed too fast, so they are now extinct.
It doesn’t so it can. Antibiotics, insecticides and herbicides have been around for a lot less than a million years and evolution has already developed counters to many of them.
Someone does not understand how bacteria reproduce. Asexual reproduction is more common than sexual reproduction.And these random mutations just happen to work their magic perfectly every time to always produce a male and female…how convenient .
This is what people have been pointing out, that evolution is based on assumptions. The raw data is stated in that metaphor. Interestingly, when the odds of having complex organ structures, or life itself appear randomly, it said that it is impossible to derive these variables. If we are talking about science, present the evidence.
Design does, and that is why there are genetic, epigenetic and instinctive mechanisms where by a creature adapts to or modifies its environment in order for its offspring to multiply.
Evolution claims it does. I suppose the issue boils down to the concept of final causes. Evolutionary science describes what would be a meaningless universe resulting in diversity and fitness by chance.Techno2000:
What makes you think it takes millions of years to do anything?
It’s odd how some people speak of evolution like it’s an omnipresent guiding force
:man_facepalming:t2:These minute adaptations haven’t changed what the bacteria, insect, or plant is. They’re still the same species. Also, there’s no proof that these adaptations will be permanent.
These are some of the built-in mechanisms that allow the organism to fit in its environment. Bacteria have been found resistant to novel antibiotics in a cave closed off to the rest of the world for more than two million years million years. Moods and bacteria were created to live together in harmony. Molds produce antibiotics to restrict the spread of bacteria, and conversely bacteria produce antibiotics to limit that of molds. This problem is that with the fall, death entered the world and genetic aberrations resulted. There is now disharmony. Every once in a while bacteria with a particular resistance to an antibiotic appear and transfer the genetic material to others. Design messed up by human beings who thought they could do better than God.
No, it does not. Very large and complex evolutionary changes of course take millions of year, but many small to medium sized changes can take place in much shorter time spans, some as small as 100 years.PickyPicky:
Evolution claims it does.Techno2000:
What makes you think it takes millions of years to do anything?
Evolution does not “clean up” pollution. At most it will make species that can better tolerate pollution. There are many species right now that do much better in a polluted world. Our species may not be one of them.
Is that supposed to be of some comfort? I guess it is like saying “It’s better than a sharp stick in the eye.”
Indeed there isn’t. Because they aren’t necessarily permanent. If the environment changes so that the adaptions are not beneficial, then there will be further changes.
So? These are obvious examples of evolution. If you want a new species, then start with de Vries (1905), who observed the evolution of Oenothera gigas from Oenothera lamarckiana and work forward from there.
What is it about them that would qualify them as evolutionary and not simply a difference in morphology between a progenitor and its offspring. I’m pretty sure we all agree that happens. What is questionable is the belief that random changes in the genome under the influence of natural selection is the cause of the diversity and growing complexity of living forms.
I’ll comment as I see fit and I’ll challenge these absurd notions as they appear. Disagreement and discussion are allowed and I don’t answer to YOU.
Hopefully, yours improves.
Your inability to believe it does not constitute such evidence.