My opinion differs from yours. I am a firm believer in the process of evolution.

Thanks for your input. I will look into the sock scandal later.

Could you please explain your position of process?

I think of evolution as a process. Measurable and quantifiable. I can not for the life of me understand the resistance to its logic and its existence. But perhaps that's neither here nor there I suppose.

One need only examine life forms with short life spans. The different traits that develop over the duration of a few generations of fruit flies. The fact that we cannot beat the common cold. The hospital superbugs that have survived the antibiotics created and thrown at them. These tiny survivors whose molecular differences from their dead brethren(and sistern ) in turn reproduce, allowing them to carry on their inherited advantageous mutations to subsequent generations. And all visible through a stereoscope or microscope or magnifying glass as the case may be.

As to larger and more long-lived organisms, centuries of scientific journals across diverse nations and the fossil records that redefine, all the while refining, the lineages of plant, animal and even microbial life through such long spans of time, all convince me of the practicality and beauty and existence of evolution.

Evolution does fly in the face of the dogmata of many if not most religious teachings as handed down through the ages. I can sort of understand the resistance to the thought that humans are descendants of apes. And I agree with it. The fossil record bears it out plainly. Ape and human instead descended from a common ancestor, branching off in multiple turns over the course of many, many, many years.

Being an atheist, I'm unable to look at the world through the prism of any god's religion. Your GOD's nor anyone else's. It just doesn't work for me by inclination nor the result of later study in high school and college. My bachelor degree was in zoology. A field that I have never worked in as an adult but has never stopped fascinating me. I wish I could explain my view as well as some of my professors in genetics and vertebrate anatomy did in class. Too much time has gone by and I can't put it into words nearly as well. Nor as convincingly.

Your intellectual and philosophical position on the matter has been stated several times before and I intend to honor it and you with my attention in your response in this forum should you chose to make it again. This however has been my first real response on this occasionally raised issue in the threads. I also intend it to be my last. Not that it is not a noteworthy topic. But rather that it is a non-issue for me. Neither of us is likely to convince the other of all the merits of our respective positions. May it not be a bone(fossilized or otherwized ) of contention between us.

Good evening sir...

I think that it is fine to have personal beliefs and it is also fine to support them...But I don't see why it is necessary to basically say if others do not agree with your beliefs that they are wrong.
I personally think it would be nicer if people with different belief systems could coexist peacefully instead of having threads created which seem to be created in order to incite arguments and discord.

Very simply stated, Evolution is just the gradual development of a simple form to a more complex one.

So, from a biological standpoint Life started out about 4 billion years ago as very primitive Prokaryotic archaea (which have no cell nucleus or membrane bound organelles in the cells)
About 3.5 billion years ago photosynthesis became a way for cells to use sunlight to produce energy. Oxygen was a side product of photosynthesis...This lead up to a mass buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere, making the environment habitable for all kinds of new life forms that use oxygen to respire.
Over time cells gradually changed (evolved) and developed a true nucleus which contained the cells "instructions" this is DNA which is contained in the form of chromosomes. And cells with this are called Eukaryotes. These organisms developed (evolved) from single cells to muti-celled organisms...Including plants, fungi and animals...including Homo sapiens, sapiens -Humans.

Now this is a extremely stripped down explanation (and has more than a couple errors as I got my BS in Biology way back in 1992) so, I apologize for any mistakes..But basically I am just attempting to show that evolution is a very, very gradual change of an extremely simple form of life which leads to the gradual development of more complex forms. Starting with a single cell.

Researchers have observed cheetahs ,some birds and zebras slowly changing their patterns over the years.
Coyotes and orcas are now classified into different groups that have different habits and sizes.True evolution takes a long time to happen....but it is happening

No answer yet? I was honestly looking forward to hearing your response to my earlier query Blake...

You know her?



BRB-I need my dictionary to read Goobs post.

Blake
The DNA you are so proud of proves beyond a doubt that evolution happened

I don't know what you are educated in my friend
But it's surely not anthropology

Oh I apologize ity that I don't "cut N paste" others views.

I post what I know from living, and experience.

As well as applying simple logic and common sense, something that you know nothing about.

Oh , I read it on the internet, so it must be true...

Hey ity, stop letting others do your thinking for you.

Google is NOT your friend.

Then you can stop banging your head.

Truth... Absorb it...

I know it itty

But I got him!

As you see in the quote
He just admitted i was right

He just gets bored and likes to argue
Even when he knows he's wrong

And it was just proven

Actually I don't like to argue such as yourself

You make for a good liberal.

You look good in that picture ity.

What is dumb is your falsehoods that make your foundation .

You can't argue with those such as myself because we are not close minded folks that won't open their eyes and see reality as it really is

As for being a liberal.
In some ways you are correct.
A friend shattered her toe on my porch.
I gave her every dime in my pocket,because along with weeks off work from 2 jobs,she also has shitty insurance.

I'm sure you think helping friends truly in need is wrong,
So therefore my independent political views (because I'm not a sheep that will vote in a system that has solidly been proven corrupt)
Matter not at all to a close minded so far to the right wing Republicans that you're out there all by yourself.

Open your eyes and your mind without tripping on acid


Blake
I'm not trying to be a d*ck
But you are sure making hard not be