[Closed] evolution,how did it actually happen?

jivehoneyjive - Member

The problem with a guy being able to create the building blocks of life here and now is that the atmosphere is abundant with all kinds of little beasties, wriggling and jiggling for dudes with a microscope to find.

not sure if trolling, or serious...

This thread kind of explains the process rather nicley. The same old crap's replicated time after time with minor variations that over the course of time leads to the thread turning into a entirely new organism bearing little or no resemblance to the original

Do you believe in a supreme being pictonroad?

I believe in a supreme being.

It's me. Or my dog. One of the two, I forget which. 😀

No, I don't. It struck me as unlikely from about 6 years old.

Then how did you become a freemason?

pictonroad - Member

fair enough, the people have spoken.

I am a freemason been one for years. I also live in a house with a clear triangle motif on the front.

You got me.

😆

😆 The subterfuge!

Plenty of ugly and 'inferior' people get to continue their gene lines

We're a social animal, perhaps our success as a species relies on our genetic diversity - 'inferior' is pretty subjective. Faced with any particular environmental hardship only a few of us need to be best adapted to that specific condition for the rest to survive, and amongst those survivors are carried the diverse traits required to survive the next obstacle or to thrive in between periods of hardship

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is that evolution or is that a recessive trait coming to the fore? The same with the school-book example of peppered moths and pollution. The moths didn't evolve to be black in the face of pollution - the black condition existed as a recessive gene - it just didn't appear very frequently. Pollution made that recessive gene express itself much more commonly but it was the same moth.

Those lizards would have 'evolved' if when you'd reintroduced them to the original population and they were unable to interbreed and remained a separate species. Otherwise all you've done is effectively bred a variety of the same species. In the same way thousands of years of selectively breeding dogs with extremely different physical characteristics and with very different behavioural traits but hasn't turned any of those breeds into a new or separate species.