Aha! This is where I am anthropocentric. But I am sure we should still be discussing the cellular level of stuff.
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Evolution flaws which proves it fallacy.
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Aha! This is where I am anthropocentric. But I am sure we should still be discussing the cellular level of stuff.
The cells of plants are good for animals and taste good too. Is that not amazing? It is amazing to me. It is so amazing that I can not believe it just happened.
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
What's so difficult to believe about that? Living things have been devouring each other since we were all nothing but microscopic cells. It only make sense that as we'd all evolve we'd find our individual abilities to digest living matter evolving along with us.
It is pretty amazing. My response to that had something to do with sugars being calories, which is what powers us for energy. Plants are powered directly from the sun which kinda makes them closer to the source of energy. If we should be so highly evolved we ought to be solar powered, just sayin.
johnhanks
Well-Known Member
The cells of some plants are good for some animals - specifically, those that have co-evolved with those plants and exploit them for food. We cannot know how the plants taste to those animals, or if the sensation we call taste exists in them at all.
Ah, the good old argument from personal incredulity. Tell me, would you accept "I cannot believe that god just happened" as a serious argument for his non-existence?
Tru dat, I still cringe with dogs eating there poop.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
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 spontaneously self assemble under the right conditions. It can copy itself and reproduce on it's own as well.
The wonders of chemistry.
wa:do
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
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 have no problem accepting that God set up the universe to run on it's own... including evolution.
I don't think God has to constantly poke around making sure we can enjoy a steak.
wa:do
Don't they teach natural selection in school anymore?
Oh brother! It is not amazing that it can happen. It is amazing that it happened so many times. So....how many times has it happened in a thousand years do you think?
Probably just like a child thinks a sky scraper is the same as a hut.
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
If evolution did not happen, then where did all parasites, bacteria, and viruses come from? God must've created them. How can God be good creating a Jewel Wasp for instance? Or is the Creationist assumption that Macroevolution happened just after the fall but then stopped? There are hundreds of thousands of species of parasites, eating away at the hosts and many times causing illness (in humans and animals alike). I can't see how God created that and was good, and I can't see how the "fall" can "create" them either since they must've come from somewhere.
Evolution solves that problem.
Evolution solves that problem.
johnhanks
Well-Known Member
Does the red "it" here still refer to the ability of animals to exploit plants as food? If so, its recurrence is anything but amazing - if herbivory was advantageous to one ancient animal species, it will have been advantageous to many.
A thousand years is an eyeblink in evolutionary terms.
Do you mean un-designed evolution? Many believers in God believe evolution was designed. It is for that reason YHVH should be worshiped and loved. That way love will guide evolution.
OK. But how many thousand year periods have come and gone since the first living cell appeared? It's simple division.
No "it" refers to Earth's wonderful selection of good things.
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
If evolution was guided by God, then parasites were part of that design. Take eye-inflating flatworm, zombie wasp, tongue eating seaworm, and more. They were designed by God's guidance through evolution or by creation or by random chance from the DNA "falling" in sin?
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
Well, the first prokaryotes are estimated to have existed about 3.6 billion years ago, so since then we've had 3.6 million thousand year periods.
It doesn't select "good" things, mutations which are beneficial to to the chance of successful reproduction result in an increased possibility of reproduction and are thus naturally selected.