Clearly they must be agnostic as they have no way of telling one way or another if there is or is not a god.
But if they are 'hard' or 'soft' agnostics, I couldn't tell you. I am not a carrot myself.
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You have a degree in zoology but you don't know the difference between a law and a theory? :facepalm:
Theories do not become laws... laws are lower in importance than theories. :cool:
A hypothesis does not become a theory a hypothesis is simply either confirmed or disproved. A proven...
I would clarify your clarification.
The theory of evolution is not debated. It is established scientific fact. Hence it is a theory and not a hypothesis.
However, aspects of theory of evolution are debated. Such as the relative importance of kin selection or ERV's to speciation. In some...
Modern humans are H.sapiens sapiens but since we don't have any living relations just using H.sapiens is fine. Neanderthals are either classified as H.neanderthalensis or H.sapiens neanderthalensis.
Cro Magnon are AMHS and really aren't considered a valid distinct group. Though the term is...
Hang on, I'm confused.
Earlier you said that morality is a choice and only humans have morality... therefore God.
Now you are saying that morality is hardwired and thus everything has it... therefore God.
Which is it?
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Because all living things are really just combinations of the same macromolecules...
You don't need to evolve a sense of taste for every animal that has fat... once you know what fat tastes like you can taste fat in anything that has it.
I think 3.5 billion years is plenty long enough.
And I...
No one wrote it... it's a molecule that can undergo a whole slew of mutations from additive mutations like insertions of repeated copy sequences to the duplication of whole chromosomes...not to mention deletions and transpositions.
Did you know that RNA the precursor molecule to DNA can...
I'm going to ignore all this because it has nothing to do with evolution and I'm not a physicist.
Actually, life isn't as fragile as you portray it.
Life does just fine in a range of temperatures from above boiling and well below freezing.
It does just fine without any sunlight at all or...
Because you're looking at the question backwards...
Food is just dead other things... unless you suggest that fish evolved for us to eat them and for no other reason... then the fact we find them tasty is simply coincidental.
They happen to have the fats and proteins that we find "taste good"...
From the macromolecules... that's all taste is. Chemistry.
You can produce tastes in a basic chemistry lab. Artificial flavors for example.
Individuals that can detect the macromolecules better can find more nutritious sources of the food. Saving energy and increasing their survival...
Most fruit are used to entice animals into eating them so that the seeds can be dispersed far from the parents. The plants that produce fruit spread better then those that do not. Thus the seed baring plants have come to dominate the world in a very short geological time.
The plant doesn't...
Food tastes good for a lot of reasons.
Most importantly so that we will eat it and generally eat things that have higher nutritional value for our bodies.
We have evolved to seek out the macromolecules our bodies need to run and to preferentially choose those foods highest in those...