Isnt evolution calculated incorrectly?

Don't try to get funding in any college with thinking like that!!!

I have been shocked at the lack of honest discussion on this topic in the science community. The tip of the iceberg for me was reading the forward to my Genetics textbook in college back in '89 with a forward written by either Watson or Crick (the ones who discovered DNA) stating that evolution was no longer considered a theory, but was fact. What a terrible way to start a college textbook! Don't ever question this - just accept it. What is science about other than testing and discovering new things? You can touch everything except this subject.

For an interesting documentary - watch "Expelled" narrated by Ben Stein.

> "So if it takes 600 million years for one single cell organism to "evolve" into two cells"

Where did you get this figure?

The first appearance of life in earth was some time between 4.5 and 3.5 billion years ago.

The first complex (eukaryotic) cells appeared about 2 billion years ago.

And the first multicellular organisms appeared about 1 billion years ago.

BUT - we don't know whether all multicellular life evolved from a single multicellular organism which appeared between 2 and 1 billion years ago, or whether there were many different multicellular organisms which appeared, and which each seperately evolved into multiple different lineages of multicellular life.

(in fact, since photosynthesis appeared before multicellularity, it is most likely that the latter happened - deriving plants, fungi, and animals from (at least) three different original organism types).

> "we don't see it happening today"

You mean we don't see the evolution of single cells to multicellularity today?

Are you sure it isn't happening? I'm not aware of any studies looking into this which could confirm or deny it.

> "shouldn't it be calculated by a ratio from number of all single cell organisms in history and one "evolved" two cell that survived? Which would be some astronomical number like: trillion trillion trillion to 1 rather than in years.""

No, because:

[1] there was almost certainly more than one type of multicellular life originally.

[2] we have no idea how many forms of multicellular life there were which evolved, and then which became extinct.

[3] it is *populations* which evolve, not individual organisms - and we have no way of modelling the number of populations which existed back then.

[4] we don't know how many new forms of multicellular life may be evolving as we speak.

[5] evolution isn't measured in years - in fact there are no "units" for evolution in paleontological terms. We can examine the rate of changes in allele frequency in existing organisms, but not in fossils.

[6] evolution is not the same as becoming multicellular; it is simply the observation that populations of organisms change in their characteristics over time.

Moving from single-celled to multicellular happened more than once.

I don't understand what you're trying to calculate, but whatever it is, it's based on an invalid supposition. I recommend you read Campbell & Reece Biology, seventh edition or newer.

I consider myself well versed in the nonsensical arguments of creationists, but I have to admit this is a new one.

Your logic is flawed, the calculation is meaningless and you just made up numbers.

NO. Why would that calculation matter to evolution?

Your calculations are meaningless.