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How does evolution and the Pope making it unchanging in Faith work?

nPeace

Veteran Member
I notice you keep avoiding answering the question: what do you see as the "explanation" for sex in Genesis?

(Hint: it's not "be fruitful and multiply" since asexual reproduction is a thing)
Sorry. It was not my intention to avoid your question. I was just focused on what you were saying.

Why sex?
I'm thinking... Genesis 1:31 sums it up quite nicely.
Contrary to your thinking, and other believers in the evolution theory, there is no other explanation.
To say that sex is a product of chance, or national selection, or whatever you want to call it, is just wishful thinking, in my view.

Earlier, you said...
Of course evolution can. Sex provides genetic diversity.

That does not explain why sex. It just explains one result of sex.
Surely you understand that, don't you?

Hence why scientists to this day, consider it a mystery.
Question for you.
Why do evolution theory believers always feel that they must win an argument by making up stuff, and giving bogus answers? It seems to be an ego thing - having a feeling of superiority, and an obvious disdain for the Bible.

For example, up until now 'dragon cannot provide one single paper that says, scientists can explain why sex, and rather than admit that, he just, as if by rote - chants his favorite line about "religious agenda", and then parrots himself, again and again.
Why not, just agree with the person who stated the fact... even if one says, but... ?
Do you get what I'm saying?
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
Sorry. It was not my intention to avoid your question. I was just focused on what you were saying.

Why sex?
I'm thinking... Genesis 1:31 sums it up quite nicely.
Contrary to your thinking, and other believers in the evolution theory, there is no other explanation.
To say that sex is a product of chance, or national selection, or whatever you want to call it, is just wishful thinking, in my view.

Earlier, you said...
Of course evolution can. Sex provides genetic diversity.

That does not explain why sex. It just explains one result of sex.
Surely you understand that, don't you?

Hence why scientists to this day, consider it a mystery.
Question for you.
Why do evolution theory believers always feel that they must win an argument by making up stuff, and giving bogus answers? It seems to be an ego thing - having a feeling of superiority, and an obvious disdain for the Bible.

For example, up until now 'dragon cannot provide one single paper that says, scientists can explain why sex, and rather than admit that, he just, as if by rote - chants his favorite line about "religious agenda", and then parrots himself, again and again.
Why not, just agree with the person who stated the fact... even if one says, but... ?
Do you get what I'm saying?

Nothing in evolution and abiogenesis is explained by chance, That is science,

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Pollen production is an essential step in sexual reproduction of seed plants.
The evolution of sexual reproduction describes how sexually reproducing animals, plants, fungi and protists could have evolved from a common ancestor that was a single-celled eukaryotic species.[1][2][3] Sexual reproduction is widespread in the Eukarya, though a few eukaryotic species have secondarily lost the ability to reproduce sexually, such as Bdelloidea, and some plants and animals routinely reproduce asexually (by apomixis and parthenogenesis) without entirely having lost sex. The evolution of sex contains two related yet distinct themes: its origin and its maintenance.

The origin of sexual reproduction can be traced to early prokaryotes, around two billion years ago (Gya), when bacteria began exchanging genes via conjugation, transformation, and transduction.[4] Though these processes are distinct from true sexual reproduction, they share some basic similarities. In eukaryotes, true sex is thought to have arisen in the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA), possibly via several processes of varying success, and then to have persisted.[5]

Since hypotheses for the origin of sex are difficult to verify experimentally (outside of evolutionary computation), most current work has focused on the persistence of sexual reproduction over evolutionary time. The maintenance of sexual reproduction (specifically, of its dioecious form) by natural selection in a highly competitive world has long been one of the major mysteries of biology, since both other known mechanisms of reproduction – asexual reproduction and hermaphroditism – possess apparent advantages over it. Asexual reproduction can proceed by budding, fission, or spore formation and does not involve the union of gametes, which accordingly results in a much faster rate of reproduction compared to sexual reproduction, where 50% of offspring are males and unable to produce offspring themselves. In hermaphroditic reproduction, each of the two parent organisms required for the formation of a zygote can provide either the male or the female gamete, which leads to advantages in both size and genetic variance of a population.

Sexual reproduction therefore must offer significant fitness advantages because, despite the two-fold cost of sex (see below), it dominates among multicellular forms of life, implying that the fitness of offspring produced by sexual processes outweighs the costs. Sexual reproduction derives from recombination, where parent genotypes are reorganized and shared with the offspring. This stands in contrast to single-parent asexual replication, where the offspring is always identical to the parents (barring mutation). Recombination supplies two fault-tolerance mechanisms at the molecular level: recombinational DNA repair (promoted during meiosis because homologous chromosomes pair at that time) and complementation (also known as heterosis, hybrid vigor or masking of mutations).
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
After the fall of Adam and Eve, God took away parts of our bodies and added some different parts... This information was not included in the bible.

...The Bible also doesn't talk about the breaking up of Pangea, which occurred just 80,000 years ago, not too long after the fall.

Pangea broke up about 100 million years ago, and humans have been around more than 250.000
 

nPeace

Veteran Member
Nothing in evolution and abiogenesis is explained by chance, That is science,
Huh? o_O
Are you able to explain what you just said, because that makes no sense to me.

Evolution of sexual reproduction - Wikipedia

Evolution of sexual reproduction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Jump to navigationJump to search
‹ The template Sidebar with collapsible lists is being considered for merging. ›
Part of a series on
Evolutionary biology

Darwin's finches by John Gould
Key topics[show]
Processes and outcomes[show]
Natural history[show]
History of evolutionary theory[show]
Fields and applications[show]
Social implications[show]

Ladybugs mating

Pollen production is an essential step in sexual reproduction of seed plants.
The evolution of sexual reproduction describes how sexually reproducing animals, plants, fungi and protists could have evolved from a common ancestor that was a single-celled eukaryotic species.[1][2][3] Sexual reproduction is widespread in the Eukarya, though a few eukaryotic species have secondarily lost the ability to reproduce sexually, such as Bdelloidea, and some plants and animals routinely reproduce asexually (by apomixis and parthenogenesis) without entirely having lost sex. The evolution of sex contains two related yet distinct themes: its origin and its maintenance.

The origin of sexual reproduction can be traced to early prokaryotes, around two billion years ago (Gya), when bacteria began exchanging genes via conjugation, transformation, and transduction.[4] Though these processes are distinct from true sexual reproduction, they share some basic similarities. In eukaryotes, true sex is thought to have arisen in the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA), possibly via several processes of varying success, and then to have persisted.[5]

Since hypotheses for the origin of sex are difficult to verify experimentally (outside of evolutionary computation), most current work has focused on the persistence of sexual reproduction over evolutionary time. The maintenance of sexual reproduction (specifically, of its dioecious form) by natural selection in a highly competitive world has long been one of the major mysteries of biology, since both other known mechanisms of reproduction – asexual reproduction and hermaphroditism – possess apparent advantages over it. Asexual reproduction can proceed by budding, fission, or spore formation and does not involve the union of gametes, which accordingly results in a much faster rate of reproduction compared to sexual reproduction, where 50% of offspring are males and unable to produce offspring themselves. In hermaphroditic reproduction, each of the two parent organisms required for the formation of a zygote can provide either the male or the female gamete, which leads to advantages in both size and genetic variance of a population.

Sexual reproduction therefore must offer significant fitness advantages because, despite the two-fold cost of sex (see below), it dominates among multicellular forms of life, implying that the fitness of offspring produced by sexual processes outweighs the costs. Sexual reproduction derives from recombination, where parent genotypes are reorganized and shared with the offspring. This stands in contrast to single-parent asexual replication, where the offspring is always identical to the parents (barring mutation). Recombination supplies two fault-tolerance mechanisms at the molecular level: recombinational DNA repair (promoted during meiosis because homologous chromosomes pair at that time) and complementation (also known as heterosis, hybrid vigor or masking of mutations).
This has nothing to do with anything against what I said.
Why offer something that is irrelevant to what you claimed?
...and...
Since hypotheses for the origin of sex are difficult to verify experimentally (outside of evolutionary computation), most current work has focused on the persistence of sexual reproduction over evolutionary time.
Evolution of sexual reproduction - Wikipedia
 
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