Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution

[Sonicblu]

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[Motherland]

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Sorry, but what?

[mtnman]

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Is this your slant on what scientists understand/believe when it comes to evolutionary theory?  If so, I understand your refusal to buy into that thinking.  It would be easier to believe in magic...

My wife and I reproduced "after our own kind".  However, our offspring are not carbon copies of us.  They're different.  Their genetic make-up is slightly different than ours, for better or worse.  It's slightly changed.  That's what evolution is really about.  Change.  Not necessarily good, not necessarily bad, and generally far to subtle to see.  Some of those changes may improve survivability and reproduction, some may hinder it.  That's where natural selection kicks in.

And, in reality, we do see this happening all around us.  And we're able to take our understanding of how evolution works, and use it to our advantage.  All one needs to do is swing through the produce section of the supermarket, or drive past a cornfield to see it up close...

[Die Hard]

Evolution:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493414/First-pictures-limbed-baby-arms-mother-amazing-recovery-surgery.html

This one wasn't a success, and most aren't... but once in a while there is a mutation that improved the species.

[Furball]

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[mtnman]

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[Hajo]

There is a saying popular today "soup happens".  (meant as a colloquialism)

It's the modern way to excuse an occurance without any depth or insight.

Problem is soup just doesn't happen.....there is always a cause.


Had to modify the prime word I really wanted to use.  Known as cause and effect. 

[BnZs]

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[Die Hard]

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Acknowledging that you don't know how it was created or where it came from is not the same as believing it created itself. As far as we can surmise the Big Bang happened, but I have never heard or read a scientist claim it came from nothing; only they they don't know. Lot's of speculation though.

[BnZs]

Acknowledging that you don't know how it was created or where it came from is not the same as believing it created itself. As far as we can surmise the Big Bang happened, but I have never heard or read a scientist claim it came from nothing; only they they don't know. Lot's of speculation though.

At some point something had to come from nothing. If they were to prove that the universe endlessly creates, destroys, and recreates itself in a cycle for instance, still once could ask whence this came. The great mystery, why anything exists at all, remains.

[Die Hard]

Maybe we just can't wrap our brains around the concept of infinity.

[Hajo]

Diehard methinks you hit the nail on the head.

Tracing back the earths creation could be infinite.  One just can't say "The  Big Bang" or "Let there be Light"

Everything we've heard from both camps is pure theory.

Since no one I know or have read about was around at the time of the earths creation

everything is a guess.

I guess we'll have to wait awhile on that one 

Just note what I posted earlier in this thread.....the most learned at one time thought the world flat and the Sun

orbited the earth.  We're not as smart as we think we are.  We've much to learn.....if we wish to.

[Vudak]

There is no evidence of any kind to show any species will reproduce into something else. Or that it ever has. They are many fossils of extinct animals there is no fossil record of any transitionary animal. animal to animal or animal to human.

Have you only seen one breed of dog your entire life?

[moot]

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