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Author Topic:   why DID we evolve into humans?
John
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Message 34 of 231 (54393)
09-07-2003 8:45 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by rabair
09-07-2003 7:50 PM


Re: but still...
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But You still keep avoiding the main issue. Nothing was added to them, and you haven't show any evidence of anything beeing added.
Insisting that something be added constructs a straw man.
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Here it is: Compare these E. Coli to us (humans)...
What you propose suffers from a fatal flaw. You present only one alternative. In you example the survivor survived because he/she lost a nose. However, a smell is a molecule. Say, instead of losing a nose the individual had a mutation which resulted in a protein which nuetralized whatever it was about the smell that killed people. This is a gain and in real world biology there would hundreds, if not thousands, of places along the path from smelling to dying where a mutation could effect the outcome. Could it happen? New proteins show up all the time.
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To evolve into greater things from, amoeba to present day human, we would have had to gain something...
We do. Everybody is born with three or four mutations, on average.
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Again I will say, although one may benefit from a mutation, it certainly DIDN'T gain anything.
A bacteria that is born with a protein to digest nylon didn't gain something? None of its ancestors can eat nylon. Seems pretty damned obvious that it gained something.
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It is your own science that shows no gaining of anything new out of mid-air.
Why in the hell would science suggest that something comes out of mid-air?
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