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? asked in Social ScienceAnthropology · 8 years ago

If the 'theory' of evolution was correct,?

i.e. producing without a mind animate matter from inanimate, surely the robot (inanimate) should have come before animals, humans, etc.???

Update:

Hello people, most of you miss the point: 'spontaneous generation' is a non-starter, illogical. The chasm between inanimate and animate matter cannot be bridged WITHOUT A MIND! A robot cannot be made WITHOUT A MIND, so how much less ANY animate things, INCLUDING humans :)

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  • 8 years ago

    The theory of evolution doesn’t have anything to do with producing animate matter from inanimate. It just explains how the first living organisms evolved into the many forms we have today.

    Also, there is no essential difference between “animate matter” and inanimate matter. Life consists of a specific set of chemical interactions, not a special kind of matter.

    Also, a necessary component of evolution is reproduction, which robots don’t do.

    So no, we should not expect robots to evolve before living things.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    It's true that hydrogen and carbon are inorganic and the building blocks of organic material, but it's also true that amino acids are constantly being created everywhere, including space. Organic won out over inorganic is the answer to your question. It's easier for amino acids to become the pond scum that evolved over time into humans, than it is for iron to turn into a machine that can create more of itself. Organic won out over inorganic in the theory of evolution, as organic has an easier time replicating itself. None of this really contradicts the theory of evolution, since that would also involve organic winning out, whether or not the building blocks of organic are inorganic.

  • 8 years ago

    You are a funny guy, great sense of humor. You evolved that from where and for what purpose? Do you think it really helps you to survive? The survival of the joker or something? Well, you are a killer joker.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Throughout the universe silicon based life forms are saying the same thing about carbon based life forms like you.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    You really should try reading a scientific account of biological evolution by natural selection. You are missing out on a beautiful and amazing world of Natural History.

  • zak r
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    You need to read the theory of evolution it doesn't say that at all.

  • 8 years ago

    Uummm what? O.o

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Who says they didn't? Metal doesn't fossilize, you know.

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