Thread: How Evolution Happens

And Tony said "let there be Frosted Flakes," and there were Frosted Flakes. And he saw that they were grrrrrreat!!

Originally Posted by skysaw

And Tony said "let there be Frosted Flakes," and there were Frosted Flakes. And he saw that they were grrrrrreat!!

This comment isn't getting nearly enough attention. I laughed so hard at this.

Originally Posted by Alextanium

This comment isn't getting nearly enough attention. I laughed so hard at this.

Thanks. Every once in a long while I manage to say something that actually makes someone laugh.

A group of lizards introduced a new island managed to evolve significantly in 30 generations.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...evolution.html

Originally Posted by The Cusp

A group of lizards introduced a new island managed to evolve significantly in 30 generations.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...evolution.html

"That's just changes within kinds! They don't change into other kinds therefore its not evolution!"

Originally Posted by Alextanium

"That's just changes within kinds! They don't change into other kinds therefore its not evolution!"

What? Are people really using that as an argument against evolution? That's just ignorant...

I wish that were the case

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Created_kind

makes you think... my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great x 10000 grandfather was a dinosaur.

cool.

I think evolution happens much more through a life cycle itself than through darwinism. The organism absorbs all the information of its environnement, already changes and adapts through his life a little bit, and these changes are passed on through the genes. I believe it is naieve to believe evolution of such complicated organisms can happen through random mutations and natural selection (darwinism). Maybe they play a small role, but it is obvious to us all that organisms adept to their environnemt intelligently, and not randomly.

Now how does all the information gathered gets encoded to the genes? I believe this complicated process happens during our dreams. They are one the missing keys to the theory of evolution. That is the same thing indians and egyptians believed. The use of dreams to encode your genes... I don't know if this is true or false but science will point it out one day. Afterall, animals dream too..

^ That is called baseless speculation.

I maintain that the only people who don't accept evolution for what it is just don't comprehend how powerful a mechanism it is for driving the complexity of life. It's power and elegance is embedded in its simplicity - small changes over colossal periods of time result in observable changes.

I would LOVE to evolve through my sleep, but I'm not waking up with the ability to fly every other day, nor shoot red beams of energy out of my eyes. My genetics won't change just because I "want them to".

Originally Posted by Alextanium

I maintain that the only people who don't accept evolution for what it is just don't comprehend how powerful a mechanism it is for driving the complexity of life. It's power and elegance is embedded in its simplicity - small changes over colossal periods of time result in observable changes.

I would LOVE to evolve through my sleep, but I'm not waking up with the ability to fly every other day, nor shoot red beams of energy out of my eyes. My genetics won't change just because I "want them to".

I couldn't agree more with you. Many people think they've understood the theory of evolution, because essentially it's pretty simple, but somehow they don't seem to understand it's consequences. And most people forget one important factor in evolution: not mutation or selection, but chance. i.e. an earthquake or a volcanic eruption don't ask about adaptation, they simply kill everything within their reach. And the individuals that survive, mostly by pure chance, will form the new population, in which the genes can be distributed totally different compared to the original population. And those genes will be passed on to the next generation.