Thread: Short, not to be answered by atheists question.

Originally Posted by TheSilverWolf

Next time you try to insinuate I don't even have high-school level biology, Darmatters,

I never said that. I believe what I said was that 'if you want to get an understanding of evolutionary biology above the high school level then you should read Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins'. I never ventured any kind of opinion on what your actual educational level in biology is. Though you have been making it more than clear that it's pretty low.

Originally Posted by TheSilverWolf

remember that I probably have taken several biology classes

You.. Probably have??! You don't know?

If you did have even the most rudimentary college level education in evolutionary biology you'd know that species don't evolve because an individual decides it wants to. It happens because of changes in the environment that make survival difficult. When these changes occur large segments of a given species, which had been doing well until the change, will die out, while those who's mutations are well adapted for survival under the new conditions will thrive and pass on their DNA to future generations.

Humans have absolutely no need to grow fangs or wings because we developed a far more effective weapon than any of those; human technology, which means we effectively have no predators now. No longer do we flee terrified from tigers or wolves. We're now their predators. When a species exists comfortably at the top of the food chain as we do now, there's no evolutionary pressure to evolve. This is why sharks and crocodiles have remained unchanged since prehistoric times.

You say you thought every species is always evolving? Again, reading just one book on evolutionary biology will very quickly clear up such basic misunderstandings. A species evolves when it's under a great deal of environmental pressure to do so. When things are going well they don't evolve.

And why do you keep arguing that Catholicism was science? Do you understand what the scientific method is? Does or did Catholicism, at any time, practice the scientific method? No.

You keep claiming to understand science but then reveal a complete and profound lack of understanding of it. If you want to be taken seriously in a conversation about science, then you need to educate yourself in it. That's not hard at all in this computer age. We've already pointed out a number of areas in which you're wrong and explained basically why, it would only take a little followup on your part.

As for why we don't see evolution today - we do! For the most obvious examples, look at dog breeds. They're all descended from the wolf, and yet there are breeds today that look nothing like wolves. This clearly demonstrates how species can change drastically in just a few hundred years. If you want to you can actually observe it even faster in planarian worms, who's generations are only a matter of days or something.