If your so called "natural selection" exists, then howcome people don't have gills from using swimming pools regularly?
Your leading scientists claim that this evolution is simply adaptation in new environments, so why haven't we, who have been swimming for thousands of years developed anything. In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.
There is only one answer: a little guy called Jesus Christ.
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Evolution means that we gain things we need to survive, and lose things we don't need. Gills, in air at least, are a burden to us and most other land animals largely because we already developed a nose which can process oxygen better.
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Now, Simon, you are also evolution at work. Apparently your fundie fathers years ago decided to throw away intlligence for the sake of God. Eventually, these unused brain cells die out. So, in maybe a few more generations of inbreeding, fundementalists will be rid of those unnecessary brain cells, whatever's left is enough for them to use to serve God. They will be the perfect lambs!
Yeah! And how come Jewish men aren't born circumcised? [/sarcasm]
In facthow come we haven't changed at all for thousands of years.
A thousand years is only 300-400 generations. Noticeable human evolution has taken over 10,000 generations. E. coli can go through that many generations in a month. That's why we can see evolution in bacteria but not in humans.
i]a little guy called Jesus Christ.
Was Jesus really all that little? Are we saying he was a midget/dwarf, or just unusually short? Inquiring minds want to know!
Actually, adaptive changes, ie evolution, has occurred. Look at the hairs on your arms. Now wet them, and notice how they all line up? This is a fine example of evolution in humans.
If it was necessary to stay in a pool as much as possible to survive, the ones who couldn't often died, and the ones who could stay in one the longest were the ones who had the most surviving children, in a few tens of thousands of generations, there's a good chance you'd wind up with people who looked a lot like otters. Or porpoises with thumbs.
We don't have gills since we realised that living in the earth was better, for some far ancestor of us, than to live in the sea. Thanks for, actually, clarifying.
Let me turn that around on you. If God made us perfect, and this world for us, why do we not have gills? The oceans are of the planet, and by that logic, ours. Surely God would have designed us to take full advantage of them.
As for why we don't, due to evolution...we don't need them. We have no need to do in water. We do anyways, and are moderately proficient (In some cases) but have no real need to go into the water.
Oh, and we have changed. We're taller, faster, smarter (In some cases.) There's unusual eye colors that are becoming more and more pronounced, just as an example.
Well, unless you have sex with really good swimmers thousand and millions of times... I wouldn't put money on that happening.
And, gills would suck considering how we do spend most of our time on land now.
Well, you haven't, certainly. I mean, you guys still believe that some dude resurrected himself, stayed around for a while, and then rose up into heaven. Same goes for a lot of other groups out there, but differing in the specifics.
Meanwhile, those of us who have evolved have long since thrown that idea out. [/sarcasm]
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