For the "scientists" here who believe in evolution: what will we evolve into next?

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BibleReader:
Carl Sagan, in *Dragons of Eden, * presented some pretty good evidence that human evolution is grinding to a halt.
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I hope not!
7 is the sign of completion. I want my other to fingers on each hand and 7 toes/foot would really help my balance.
 
Since so many people here seem to “belive in” evolution, my question is what do you think humans will evolve into next?
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lots of people on this site believe in evolution?

From what i had read on this site, i thought that the majority of people would believe that God created everything and did so in 7 days, as is the bible creation story.

:hmmm:
 
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lots of people on this site believe in evolution?

From what i had read on this site, i thought that the majority of people would believe that God created everything and did so in 7 days, as is the bible creation story.

:hmmm:
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I ACCEPT (as opposed to believe in) evolution based on the evidence. I believe that God created everything. He did not do so in 7 days.

Peace

Tim
 
Evolution does not require belief, neither does it exclude belief. Evolution does not requre a change in state or form.

Evolution is an unproven theory that creatures are subject to change and natural selection. The change is generally thought of as genetic but can be as in the case of humans social or even emotional. Whatever trait is prefered by this natural selection process. One interesting example of this in the past 20 years is the tendancy for religious persons to have more children than non-religious. This tends to support a natural selection process that prefers religion.

I hope “scientists” and “evolution” are no longer dirty words to you, as they are just words that are too often taken out of context, just like the words “Creationist” and “Christian”. I have been for some time in fact, a “Creationist” who is also “Christian” a “Scientist” and an “Evolutionist”. And you may note that Pope Benedict recently wrote to us about how this theory works well with “Christian Creation” if taken in context.

Doubting Thomas
 
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Libero:
lots of people on this site believe in evolution?

From what i had read on this site, i thought that the majority of people would believe that God created everything and did so in 7 days, as is the bible creation story.

:hmmm:
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Many people on this site believe that God created everything, but did so over a long period of time, in 6 distinct stages (with the 7th being a time of rest).

See forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=31986&postcount=66 for an explanation of how the Genesis account and theistic evolution are in harmony.
 
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JimG:
It’s already happening. We are evolving into cyber-beings.
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The Borg - The internet will eventually be connected to our head and we will know everything everyone else knows.
 
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Orogeny:
I ACCEPT (as opposed to believe in) evolution based on the evidence. I believe that God created everything. He did not do so in 7 days.

Peace

Tim
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Could He have done it in 7 days?
 
Sometimes organisms are vastly successful and don’t evolve into anything else, there are myriad creatures and plants that have been around in a recognizable form for hundreds of millions of years or more pretty much the way they are.

Turtles, crocodiles, silverfish, bristletails are some examples.

cheddar
 
Don’t forget sharks! Those things haven’t evolved since before life as we know it existed on land. Sharks are the absolute pinnacle of evolutionary success.
 
Here are some interesting thoughts
  1. God could of created the world yesterday and you would never know.
  2. God could of created an instance of the universe just for you. In other words, everything in the world that has happened and is going to happen could just be for you.
  3. As long as we live we will never be able to know for fact that God exists. You will never be able to prove it and you will never be able to dispprove it.
  4. God exists outside of our concept of time. So you don’t know what the 7 days of creation means and you never will.
I think that God is perfect and so is his creation. It doesn’t mater how much we as humans think we know about the universe we will never be able to understand God. The moment we think that we can become just like God is the moment we fall from grace.

I think a innocent child knows more about the universe then the worlds most inteligent people. The child knows how to love and how to have faith in something he can not prove.
 
there is a woman anthropologist, I believe from England or Wales, who had a popular book out about 20 years ago with the theory that humans actually evolved from aquatic mammals, not from apes, that we actually have more in common with other large mammals which are, or were, at one time, aquatic, hippos, elephants, whales, manatees etc. even the pig. I guess the theory is when the glaciers melted after one of the ice ages and oceans covered a large part of the earth, we and all these other mammals were aquatic, spending most of the time swimming but coming on shore to mate and give birth, like seals. I don’t recall if she said we had gills, like that Kevin Costner movie Waterworld. So evolving in this direction would actually be moving backward.
 
“Don’t forget sharks! Those things haven’t evolved since before life as we know it existed on land. Sharks are the absolute pinnacle of evolutionary success.” quote Ghosty

Sorry to contradict you, but nope. Sharks began with *Cladoselache * way back in the Paleozoic era. They’ve been evolving since. Carcharodon megalodon evolved to giant size - it had a mouth six feet high when partially opened. The modern goblin shark has evolved a really wacky nose. The modern great white Carcharodon carcharias has evolved for life in the water so that it is nearly impossible for it to breach. Evolution is a constant process.

As for me, I think we don’t need to worry about extinction yet. Dinosaurs lasted for 170 million years. Humans have been around since maybe 4 million at the most liberal estimate. That means that, if we dominate the earth as much as the dinosaurs did, we have another 166 million to go before the meteor hits or whatever.

Honestly, though, I don’t know if we’ll live that long. Humans tend to self destruction, or tend to make stuff that gets out of control, like the Great Molasses Disaster in, um, which city was it? when a tankful of blackstrap molasses burst the rivets and flooded the city with upwards of a million gallons. I mean, if humans can’t control their own molasses, it kind of makes you think we won’t last very long. But as God wills. 👍
 
C’mon, you need another option:

We will evolve into super-powered humans: i.e. the X-Men 😃
 
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Isidore_AK:
C’mon, you need another option:

We will evolve into super-powered humans: i.e. the X-Men 😃
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Or a Mormon opinion (which is in a certain sense the ultimate conclusion that evolution would reach were it to be allowed to continue without interuption due to extinction or the sun going supernova or something lol)
 
No, it’s like they say in scientology, we will each become a God of our very own planet, yay! 😉 😛

Emaon
 
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Isidore_AK:
C’mon, you need another option:

We will evolve into super-powered humans: i.e. the X-Men 😃
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:rolleyes: goodness me… what is the universe coming to?
 
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