If evolution is true, is evolution random or not. Humans have been drowning for millions of years, why dont we have gills yet?
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If evolution is true, is evolution random or not.
Both. Evolution is the non-random selection of randomly varying replicators.
Humans have been drowning for millions of years, why dont we have gills yet?
How does being able to breathe underwater enable you to mate more successfully?
Come to think of it, maybe you shouldn't answer that...
Humans have been drowning for millions of years
Only if you count the earlier hominids. Modern humans have only been around for the past couple hundred thousand.
Also, I thought you fundies believed in a 6000 year old world?
"I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Everytime I see a post like this on this site, I can't help but think about that quote. Eventhough it's taken from its original context, it fits perfectly.
"Humans have been drowning for millions of years, why dont we have gills yet?"
Because if women could breath through slits in their necks their chances of getting pregnant would actually (ahem) go down ?
"Humans have been drowning for millions of years, why dont we have gills yet? "
Is this an example of unintelligent design?
Humans have been drowning for millions of years, why dont we have gills yet?
OK, then humans have been drowning for millions of years; why didn't God give us gills?
Back atcha!
Because we're mammals, idiot. Our ecological niche is on land; ergo, there is no evolutionary need for gills.
Here's a question: if Creation is true, why did god give us an appendix, wisdom teeth and a vestigial tailbone?
Durr... people have been dying for (thousands) of years, why didn't we evolve immortality yet? You get an F, see me after class. You can't pass on your genetic material after you're dead, and animals don't "evolve things", let alone spontaneously gain completely new body features. If drowning was actually a key danger to human life, you'd see people who were better swimmers, perhaps those with more robust lungs, or flatter feet, live to pass on their genetic materials (and that's natural selection), not an entire population grow a new body part, idiot.
Well at least it's not the "why are there still monkeys argument" :\
Humans have been drowning for millions of years, why don't we have gills yet
@ Brain_In_A_Jar
Ia Dagon!
Now gimme my cookie.
Because we don't live in the water.
Fish have been dying because they were taken out of the water for millions of years, why don't they have noses???
we dont live in water, whales dont have gills, neither do dolphins or seals, otters or hmmm lots of things dont have gills, even hippos dont have gills.
humans can learn to swim, or learn to stay out of water.
Evolution is a fact. The mutations are random, the natural selection is not.
We don't live IN the water, no mutations resembling gills would be deemed beneficial to us, and would probably be out-selected. Gills don't work that well up in the air, that's why we don't have them.
Reasonable questions for someone who is probably a child with a poor biology education to ask. The real problem is when grown fundamentalists ask it as if there is no answer, or that the theory of evolution says it should happen, then proclaim victory.
Confused?
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