[Fundies have been reacting to the news of a rare mosquito fossil that was found.]
What's interesting to me is that this fossil is suppose to be 46 million years old, yet look at the thing! It looks like I just flew out of my back yard. So the question is to all the evolution lovers out there, if we are always changing and evolving into a higher species, how does a mosquito that's supposedly 46 million years old look the same as the one a killed on my arm two days ago? If evolutionists are correct then there would be no mosquitoes at all left since life forms should have evolved past that species by now onto their final resting place..humans...or whoever is higher in the food chain.
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"if we are always changing and evolving into a higher species"
you don't understand evolution.
"If evolutionists are correct then there would be no mosquitoes at all left since life forms should have evolved past that species by now onto their final resting place..humans...or whoever is higher in the food chain."
yep, you don't understand evolution at all.
First off, evolution does not necessarily lead to "higher species," it only leads to species more capable of surviving in the environment they live in.
Pule Thamex EDIT I forgot in all the excitement.
Do you mind if I call you mosquito chops? Or perhaps you'd prefer fossil face?
By the way, practicing for the big day er...soon, are you?
how does a mosquito that's supposedly 46 million years old look the same as the one a killed on my arm two days ago?
If a species is well adapted to its environment, and that environment remains stable, there's very little selective pressure on it to change all that much.
If evolutionists are correct then there would be no mosquitoes at all left since life forms should have evolved past that species
Ah... A variation of the old "If humans descended from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys?" question. A new species can arise via reproductive isolation from a parent species. The parent species does not cease to exist when this happens.
Mosquitoes fill an energy niche. There is a ready source of energy that the mosquito is uniquely suited to exploit and it does it better than anything else. In effect it has reached the pinnacle of its evolution currently. There is nothing which can effectively compete against it. No mutation or outstanding changes in a population would make it more efficient at what it does. Hence, no major evolutionary changes.
IF we are evolving into higher species... That's just the point, dearie, we aren't, we're just evolving into different species. There is no ladder to climb, or goal to achieve, besides having offspring that survives to have offspring of its own.
Mosquito must be pretty high on the food chain to have stayed the same for millions of years. At the very top of the food chain are maggots, they will eat us all when we have reached our final resting place; down in the ground.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
Animals like the crocodile, coelacanth, mosquito etc. survive fine the way they are, so why would they change?
So, in conclusion: Evolution doesn't work that way! Goodnight!
To a non expert, any mosquito's going to look the same as another. (To a mosquito, a dog would probably look the same as a hippo). That doesn't mean there haven't been fairly drastic changes to its DNA.
Uh, Swede, no. Fire ants eat maggots. Doodle bugs eat fire ants. Birds eat doodle bugs. Sometimes cats eat birds. Sometimes maggots eat dead birds. Sometimes maggots eat dead cats. Chickens eat maggots. We eat chickens. After maggots eat us, earthworms eat the maggot poop and bring it to the surface, where grass eats the earthworm poop. And the green grass grows all around, all around...
Well, see, a long, long time ago a male mosquito said to a female mosquito, "Oh Agnes, let's never change ..."
"or whoever is higher in the food chain."
If everything evolves higher on the food chain, what do they eat?
Better go back and rethink your thinking, goddidditt lover.
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