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does DNA prove that evolution could not have happened as thought?

If it takes so long for DNA to mutate into a viable species, how can we have so many different spieces in the world now unless that somewhere near that many were created to begin with???

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Remember, there was life on this planet 4 billion years ago...thats 4 thousand million..a long time. Mammals were around at the time of the dinosaurs, at least 200 million years ago. Yes, evolution takes a long time-but there has clearly been mammalian evolution in the last 50,000 years-not just subtle, but obvious differences in bone structure, size, etc. If you go very conservative and say it takes 50,000 years for a significant branch point (to make 2 species out of one) then 200 million years has 4 thousand branch points. Thats 2 to the 4,000 power. If every branch point took 100,000 years, then in just a million years (which is pretty short, considering we are talking about hundreds of millions), there is time for 10 branch points. thats 2X2X2X2X2X2X2X2X2X2..about one thousand new species from one original species. In 2 million years, you have time for one MILLION species to form, all from one original species-and thats with giving them 100,000 years to evolve!! Looking at this, the questions shouldnt be why are there so many, but why are there so few? Given that math I just showed, there should be thousands or millions of more species than we have, but there aren't. That's because an estimated 99.99% of all species that have lived have gone extinct. So what you see now isnt the full range of evolution-it's about 1 in 10,000 the species that have ever existed.... Evolution takes longer than a single human can see it, or even longer than the whole species has been writing-even longer than humans have been out of caves-but still, you can see 100,000 years isnt very many when you are talking about hundreds of millions, and calculating exponential diversity.

  • 2 decades ago

    Evolution has been going on for at least 3.8 billion years. The mutation rate in human beings is about 1% per million years. 3.8 billion years is enough time for 3,800 complete replacements of DNA at the rate of 1% per million years.

    The similarities of DNA among the different taxa is some of the strongest support for the evolution of life. For example, a molecule known as cytochrome-C is present in almost all forms of life. However, there are slight differences from one species to another. These differences are not arbitrarily distributed. A variation that appears in, say, the corals, remains in the corals. One that appears in reptiles, remains in the reptiles, and so on. There are many, many other lines of evidence for evolution that come from DNA.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Things branch off. I'll use a dinosaur example. Imagine a hypothetical 5 foot tall dinosaur. Let's say a mutation occurs that makes an offspring bigger. He's more muscular and can hunt and defend himself better. Therefore, the rest slowly die out.

    Also say that another baby is born with a different mutation--he's smarter. He can find food and defend himself better because he has more intelligence. The rest of slowly die out.

    This is an evolutionary branch, where two different species formed from the same base.

  • 2 decades ago

    All the DNA evidence points towards evolution, not away from it.

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  • 2 decades ago

    If they were created to begin with -- that would NOT be evolution...

    Evolution is FALSE

    Creation is TRUE

    I don't hate EVOLUTIONISTS

    I Just do not like the TEACHING

    They will tell you "EVOLUTION HAS NOTHING AGAINST RELIGION, so WHY DOES RELIGIOUS PEOPLE DISLIKE EVOLUTION?"

    One day a 12 year old Child will go to CHURCH and his PASTOR will tell him "Kids, If you add up all the dates in the Bible you will find that the EARTH was created around 7,000 years ago."

    Yet, the SAME CHILD will go to school and open up a book that reads "Dinosaurs existed 5 BILLION years ago..."

    What?

    Which is it?

    Question: Why is the oldest living tree dated at 400 years old - why not millions of years old? hmmm

    A man by the name of KENT HOVIND has a LONG TIME STANDING OFFER of ONE MILLION DOLLARS to the FIRST person who has ANY REAL EVIDANCE for EVOLUTION... FOR YEARS NO ONE HAS TAKEN THIS OFFER AND NO ONE WILL BECAUSE EVOLUTION IS NOT FACT--Yet its being taught as fact:

    They ask the kids questions:

    1. How long do you think it took for humans to evolve?

    this is INDOCTRINATION...

    the question ASSUMES that evolution ALREADY TOOK PLACE...

    Maybe Evolution NEVER HAPPENED? BUT THAT IS NOT AN OPTION HERE IS IT...

    its the same kind of question as this one: "how oftin do you beat your wife?"

    WHO SAID THAT I BEAT MY WIFE? and WHO SAID THAT EVOLUTION EVER HAPPENED?

    THIS IS CALLED SOVIET STYLE INDOCTRINATION

    MACRO EVOLUTION IS A LIE...

    STELLAR EVOUTION IS A LIE...

    CHEMICAL EVOLUTION IS A LIE...

    COSMIC EVOLUTION IS A LIE...

    YOU CANT PROVE IT.. NEVER HAPPENED.. ITS A LIE IN THE TEXT BOOK...

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    The kids will open up thier SCIENCE BOOKS and see these definitions for evolution...

    Definition #1

    Evolution: "a change over time"

    we agree

    Definition #2

    Evolution: "a change in SPECIES over a period of time"

    (Bait and switch) you already know the first is true

    so then you are SUCKERED into believing that the SECOND IS ALSO TRUE...

    This is PURE PROPAGANDA...

    They are making ASUMPTIONS and BRAIN WASHING THE KIDS INTO BELIEVING IN EVOLUTION...

    The scientific METHOD means it must be observable, testable and under labritory conditions---EVOLUTION IS NOT SCIENCE

    however, Kids ALL OVER THE WORLD will be taught that we came from a COSMIC BURP or a ROCK 6 BILLION years ago...

    that SOMTHING came from NOTHING ---> THATS A BELIEF, FAITH, RELIGION... NOT SCIENCE...

    YET KIDS ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL LOOSE THEIR FAITH BECAUSE SOME TEACHER WILL TELL THEM THAT WE CAME ABOUT BY CHANCE...

    Darwinian Evolution is RACIST -- Look inside the INSIDE FRONT COVER OF HIS BOOK AND READ THE ENTIRE TITLE... I will talk a little bit about that in a few minutes just keep reading...

    Where are the transitional stages? THERE ARE NONE--THE WHOLE CHAIN IS MISSING...

    Look at the Dogs for a second. There are BIG DOGS, LITTLE DOGS, GREAT DANES, and TINY ANKLE BITING DOGS--THEY ALL LOOK DIFFERENT BECAUSE THERE ARE DIFFERENT VARIETY---

    Variety = Variations in the gene pool... THATS ALL

    but... stand back and look at the Dogs, THEY ARE STILL JUST A DOG--Ask a THIRD GRADER the difference between a Wolf, a coyote and a Bananna... EVERY TIME the THIRD GRADER would say "The bananna is different..."

    Yet a School teacher will tell his/her class that "Dogs evolved from a bananna MILLIONS of years ago..."

    I AGREE THAT THE WOLF AND THE COYOTE HAD A COMMON ANCESTOR - BUT IT WAS A DOG...

    Probably Man had a common ancestor- BUT IT WAS A MAN; Probably Adam... NOT A MONKEY 6 MILLION YEARS AGO

    Charles Darwin studied finches during his visit to the Galápagos Islands and concluded that these finches must have a common ancestor... I BET YOUR RIGHT CHARLIE, IT WAS A BIRD...

    There are MANY VARIETIES of BIRDS -- But stand back and look at them all-- ITS STLL JUST A BIRD...

    AND THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL STAGES FROM A BIRD INTO A DOG -- OR ANY OTHER ANIMAL FOR THAT MATTER...

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    They say "LUCY" is EVIDENCE for a TRANSITIONAL CHANGE between HUMAN AND APE...

    LUCY IS A LIE IN THE TEXT BOOK...

    Not even a complete skeleton was found, only a few pieces. Furthermore, her bones strongly suggest that she was nothing more than a knuckle-walking tree-dweller, not an upright man-like ape...

    YET THEY SAY THAT THIS IS EVIDENCE ITS A HOAX...

    They say "Look kids at the Nebraska man constructed by this TOOTH"--The picture showed an Ape like Man hunched over...]

    The once so-called Nebraska man was later re-analyzed and found to be Nebraska Pig. The piece of evidence found was lacking in integrity as only one tooth was found. Later, more of the skeleton was found and it was indeed the skeleton of a pig.

    They say that "The Neanderthal man" is Proof for Evolution...

    "KIDS LOOK AT THIS, This is a HARRY MAN BENT OVER LIKE AN APE WITH APE LIKE FEATURES"

    This was NOT AN APE -- THIS WAS A MAN WITH ARTHRITIS!

    Mr. Neander was an Actual Man who created HYMNS that they sang at CHURCH... there are a few Hymns still in the church today... He was NOT an APE...

    The list goes on however, NO ACTUAL PROOF FOR A MISSING LINK... THERE IS NO MISSING LINK... THE WHOLE CHAIN IS MISSING...

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    1st of all THERE IS NOT PROOF WHAT SO EVER FOR MACRO EVOLUTION...

    IT IS A FAIRY TAIL... DOESN't EXIST...

    Yes there are SIMULARITIES but that ONLY PROVES A COMMON DESIGNER MADE EVERYTHING... NOT THAT WE EVOLVED FROM A CHIMP MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO...

    Honda builds different model cars--the parts are interchangeable and very simular--"Yes boys and girls that proves that we evolved from a FORD 6 billion years ago"

    MAYBE THE SAME MANUFACTURER MADE THEM SIMULAR FOR A REASON

    MAYBE THE SAME GOD CREATED EVERYTHING--THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS....

    Evolutionists want you to think that you had OLD information at one time and CHANGED into something NEW over the period of MILLIONS OF YEARS...

    natural selection ONLY SELECTS--IT DOES NOT CHANGE YOU INTO SOMETHING NEW...

    Mutations only mutate the EXISTING DATA--A cow can have 5 COW LEGS, however A cow can NEVER MUTATE NEW WINGS and FLY... NO NEW INFORMATION IS ADDED... only EXISTING information is mutated... NOTHING NEW...

    Why don't we see half monkeys and half humans?

    THEY WILL TELL YOU "we are ONLY 1 chromosome off from a Chimp" -- yes AND? what does that prove? That does NOT prove that we came from a CHIMP BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO...

    A TOBACCO PLANT IS ONLY 2 CHROMOSOMES OFF FROM HUMANS... does that prove that we evolved from a tobacco plant 6 billion years ago? NO IT DOES NOT...

    I think that if we were NOT SIMULAR to the Cows, Chickens, Plants, then we would not be able to EAT THEM... we would either STARVE to death or EAT EACH OTHER...

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    1. PROVE MACRO EVOLUTION-- YOU CANT --ITS NOT SCIENCE

    2. DO NOT SAY THAT MICRO EVOLUTION WORKS SIMULAR TO MACRO EVOLUTION -- VARIATIONS IN THE GENE POOL ARE JUST THAT, THERE ARE LIMMITS...

    3. WHERE IS THE MISSING LINK? -- THE WHOLE CHAIN IS MISSING...

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    NOTHING WILL REALLY HAPPEN TO MODERN MONKEYS...

    IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO DEVELOP AS ANOTHER KIND OF HUMAN BEING...

    WHY THEN? WHY WOULD THEY LIE?

    -------------> CHECK THIS OUT READ THE FOLOWING:

    PLEASE LOOK AT THE INSIDE COVER OF DARWINS BOOK AND LOOK AT THE WHOLE TITLE...

    The WHOLE title of Darwins book reads: "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life"

    Preservation of Favored Races? Sounds a lot like Ethnic Clensing to me...

    Darwin was a RACIST-- Darwin was himself a racist, referring to native Africans and Australians, for example, as savages.

    The Louisiana state Legislature casts Darwin in the same league as Hitler.

    Louisiana state Rep. Sharon Broome, D-Baton Rouge, who sponsored the resolution condemning Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, said it would "shine a light on the history of racism."

    "Be it resolved that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby deplore all instances and ideologies of racism, and does hereby reject the core concepts of Darwinist ideology that certain races and classes of humans are inherently superior to others," reads the Legislature's statement, which was approved 9-5 Tuesday by the state's House Education Committee.

    Darwinian Evolution is DANGERIOUS...

    One of the kids who did the shooting at The Columbine High School massacre wore a tee-shirt that said "Natural Selection" on the front... THE SHOOTINGS HAPPENED ON HITLERS BIRTHDAY -- These kids wrote ESSAYS on EVOLUTION and how it EFFECTED THEIR LIVES... They were HEAVILY into the IDEOLOGY of EVOLUTION...

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    1. Vestigial structures.

    evolving threw means of Natural Selection implies that you are GAINING SOMTHING NOT LOOSING... Vestigal structures is evidance for LOSS... not GAIN...

    They say that "the Tail bone is PROOF for evolution"

    They say that "You once had a tail bone and over a period of MILLIONS of YEARS you lost it" Um... were you there? did you see me loose my tail?

    They will say "You DO NOT NEED your tail bone"

    well if that is the case - go to the link at the bottom and write kent hovind - he has a long time standing offer, he states "If you say that you do not NEED your tail bone, then I WILL PAY TO HAVE YOURS REMOVED, BEND OVER"

    There are some VERY IMPORTANT muscles that ancor around the bone at the end of your spine *tail bone- that if you remove that bone you will have MAJOR problems performing certain functions-

    TRUST ME YOU NEED YOUR TAIL BONE... IT IS NOT VESTIGIAL

    2. Microevolution can be observed in both a controlled laboratory setting and in nature.

    ---> this is the BAIT and SWITCH....

    The bait and switch arguement is this: if I were to sell you a BRAND NEW CAR for 20 dollars... yep just 20 bucks- you would RUSH down here to buy it... however, I then SWITCH up on you and say "awww, no more left but i can give you THIS other car for only 20,000 dollars." that is against the LAW

    You see, THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOU TO BELIEVE SOMTHING THAT IS PROVEN ---> THEN SWITCH IT INTO SOMTHING THAT IS NOT PROVEN...

    Let me explain:

    MICRO is different then MACRO

    Micro evolution works... *the name is misleading it should be called Variations...

    Creationists will not argue with you Micro evolution is REAL it WORKs...

    However, THEN THEY SAY --> IF YOU BEILEVE IN MICRO EVOLUTION THEN YOU MUST BELIEVE IN MACRO EVOLUTION...

    now see that is where you go WRONG...

    Just because there are VARIATIONS in the gene pool does NOT INDICATE MACRO EVOLUTION EXISTS...

    you see, Macro Evolution is the CHANGE from ONE KIND of animal to ANOTHER KIND of animal. this is not SCIENCE - you can not prove this in a LAB, it is not Testable, you can not OBSERVE it, it is NOT SCIENCE.

    Evolutionists will say, "Great Grandpa was a Chimp"... This has NEVER been proven - they say "We are one chromosome off from a chimp" --- yea and we are also 2 chromosomes off from a tobacco plant, does that prove that we evolved from a "TOBACCO PLANT 6 BILLION YEARS AGO?"

    3. The fossil record.

    SHOW ME ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE THE "geologic column" or its FOSSIL RECORD EXISTS IN ITS ORDER?

    You cant because the only place you will find the geologic column is in childrens text books... this is already known and accepted by MOST SCIENTESTS - the geologic column does not exist.

    Layers are formed threw what is called "Hydrologic sorting" its simple to explain - if you put sand into a glass container and shake it up you will see different particles sort out in a matter of SECONDS...

    Mt St Helens is a Miniture Grand Canyon and it formed in a matter of Minutes - NOT MILLIONS OF YEARS...

    They will say "Petrification takes MILLIONS OF YEARS" go to Kent Hovind's website http://www.drdino.com/ and see for yourself - there is a PETRIFIED BOOT with the mans LEG STILL IN IT... there are MANY EXAMPLES of Petrification happening VERY QUICKLY and not over MILLIONS OF YEARS...

    question: why are there Petrified TREES STANDING IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION STANDING THREW MANY OF THE LAYERS? -- then how can the layers be MILLIONS OF YEARS?

    even EVOLUTINSTs date the oldest living tree at 400 years old - why not millions of years old? hmmm

    4. Imperfect structures (the blind spot of the mammalian eye, for example).

    This has already been refuted so MANY TIMES-

    Evolutionists will try to say "If God is the CREATOR then why did he create IMPERFECT structures?"

    They use underwater sea cretures for their illustrations they say "LOOK there are blood vessels in front of the eye when it would be better if they were behind the eye"

    Well, if you take a sea dwelling creature and bring em above water how long will he last before he goes BLIND?

    The BLOOD VESSELS ARE DESIGNED WHERE THEY ARE TO GIVE HIM BETTER VISION UNDER WATER - HE WAS DESIGNED FOR AN UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT AND SO HIS EYES ARE ALSO DESIGNED THAT WAY.

    SAME THING FOR AN EAGLE - his eyes were made so that he could SPOT PREY from miles above the earth. and such is the same for a mammalian--- this is not POOR DESIGN... God did it this way on purpose...

    5. Developmental biology reflects evolutionary lineage.

    Developmental biology in evolution shows stages as to how we develope threw course of time.

    The embryo is a perfect example of where Evolution has poisened this field of research.

    Evolutionists will say "LOOK, Gill slits are found in early embryo stages- this prooves evolution is true"

    A man named Haeckel needed money really quick - so he came up with a quick idea that worked- he drew gill slits on embryos in its development stages and showed the government "Look, this proves we evolved from a fish, now give me some money to research this"- He was looking for GOVERNMENT GRANT MONEY for PERSONAL REASONS...

    Haeckel's Drawings WERE TAKEN TO COURT AND PROOVED TO BE A FRAUD. HAECKEL HIMSELF ADMITTED THAT THE EMBRYOS DO NOT HAVE GILL SLITS AND THAT THEY WERE FRAUDULENT.

    Yet this is still in text books and taught as PROOF FOR EVOLUTION.

    6. Genetic analysis shows similarities among species reflecting evolutionary origins.

    THIS COULD BE EVIDENCE FOR DESIGN AND NOT EVOLUTION

    Honda, makes Different model cars. You can take some parts off of one model and put it onto another model. "this proves that we evolved from a FORD 6 billion years ago"... um maybe it proves that we came from the same DESIGNER...

    We have the same genetic make up so that - cows can eat the green grass, we can eat the cows, that make the butter, that give us yellow hair ;) lol...

    Look if everything were NOT made from the same genetic makeup we would only be eating each other.

    No God designed it JUST RIGHT the FIRST TIME

    We are all simular because GOD made us that way. THIS IS NOT PROOF for evolution.

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    THE BIG BANG "BIG DUD" says that "Look kids, SOMETHING came frome NOTHING" and this is taught as FACT...

    If you believe in Evolution you have to believe in SPONTANIOUS GENERATION... that a ROCK POPED into existance ALL ON ITS OWN... (that dust chemicals and particles caused a chemical soup)

    1. Where did the matter come from? (like the dust particles)

    2. Where did the space come from? (space to put the matter)

    3. Where did the time come from? (for all of this to happen)

    EVOLUTIONISTS CANT TELL YOU--THEY DON'T KNOW THEMSELVES...

    YOU CANT PROVE that the "Big Bang" EVER happened--You have to BELIEVE that it happen, thats a FAITH, a RELIGION...

    "Look kids, ANYTHING can happen over BILLIONS of years" they say... they say that "The EARTH WAS ONCE A BALL OF HOT MOLTEN LAVA, and cooled down over a period of BILLIONS of years."

    um... Excuse me, "Were you there?"

    There is NO WAY TO PROVE THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE -- this is taught as though it ALREADY HAPPENED... that is INDOCTRINATION...

    they say "Life evolved from a very COMPLEX cosmic SOUP"

    Grandpa was SOUP?

    they say "cells mutating from this chemical soup happens VERY SLOW" -- thats right SO SLOW IT STOPPED... this NEVER HAPPENED -- this is a LIE that has been printed in CHILDRENS TEXT BOOKS...

    Hitler created the YOUTH CORE in order that he REACH THE CHILDREN... I think that is what is happening with evolution today, they are trying to reach the children with this CRAZY theory...

    A ROCK EXPLODED INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND EXPANDED INTO THE UNIVERSE YOU SEE TODAY...

    here is something to consider:

    there is something called Angular Momentum

    Angular Momentum states that: If an object is rotating clockwise - then the particles that fly off of the object must also spin clockwise...

    in other words: the object spins - particles that come off the object MUST spin the same direction...

    QUESTION: Why does VENUS spin the OPPOSITE direction?

    QUESTION: Why are the MOONS of SATURN spinning BACKWARDS?

    QUESTION: If Angular Momentum is TRUE, then WHY ARE THESE PLANETS AND MOONS SPINNING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION?

    Maybe God designed it this way so that we would know that THE BIG BANG IS A BIG DUD...

    THERE IS A LONG TIME STANDING OFFER FOR PROOF FOR EVOLUTION... IT IS UP TO 1 MILLION DOLLARS FOR ANY RELIABLE EVIDANCE OF EVOLUTION... NO ONE HAS, AND NO ONE WILL-- ITS A LIE... A DUD...

    I have YET to see ANY evidance for the Big Bang Theroy... I have yet to see any EVIDENCE for a missing link; the WHOLE CHAIN IS MISSING...

    You can say "yea but you do not have proof for GOD either" and by saying so PROVES MY POINT--Evolution is a BELIEF, FAITH, A RELIGION... YOU CAN NOT PROVE GOD NOR CAN YOU PROVE THE BIG BANG--BOTH ARE RELIGIOUS IN NATURE SO STOP CALLING IT SCIENCE AND STOP ALOWING SCHOOLS TO PUT IT INTO THE TEXT BOOK...

    THERE IS MUCH MUCH MORE...

    THIS IS JUST THE OPENING ARGUEMENTS...

    Thank you,

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