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Does sex prove evolution is impossible? Or at least highly improbable? Why or Why not?

Think about this: According to evolution life began as "simple" one-celled life forms, over time which began to multiply and divide into multi-celled life forms.

Today we have sexual reproduction as well. For this to take place there must be a male and a female, each one providing genetic material which must be comatible with the other, and which must combine in order to produce offspring.

There must also be a male delivery system and a COMPATIBLE female receiving system in order for the 2 sets of genetic material to combine. Then there must be a hospitable incubation location so the newly formed offspring can grow to a certain level of maturity allowing it to live outside of its incubator.

Now, consider: From the one celled and multi celled life forms which reproduced by multiplying and dividing, there had to be 2 different lines of evolution occurring simultaneously to form the male and female parents that would be compatible with each other to be able to form the offspring, BUT in the meantime they had to each keep reproducing asexually while their sex organs and related functions were evolving.

What allowed compatible sexual beings to evolve; and how did they manage to reproduce while they were evolving? Also, until they actually reached a stage where they were able to reproduce with each other, these sexual functions were useless, but evolution teaches that characteristics that promote survival are carried on to the next generation. Until they became functional, these organs did nothing to promote survival or to perpetuate the species.

This simple statement seems so much more logical, especially taking into consideration that the simplest solution which fits all the facts is most often the correct solution: “And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

Update:

@ KennyB: Reasonable questions.

It seems logical to me that SOMETHING has always had to exist, because something does not come from nothing.

So, if there is no God, and everything came from a "singularity" (whatever that is supposed to be) in a big bang, then you have to have everything develop to the point we now see, including life developing from non-life. Any one thing by itself seems highly unlikely; to have repeated over and over again is a mathematical impossibility, especially to take place in only a few billion years.

On the other hand, if an intelligent super-being - God - existed from eternity past, this too may seem impossible, but it is only one event, and everything else would fall into place. The Bible tells us in Psalm 90:2 that He has always existed.

Although many people consider the Bible to be unscientific, Isaiah 40:26 is a very simple but scientifically accurate explanation of how everything came into being. Even sceptics say it happened that way, min

Update 2:

@ How would I Know:

You do not seriously think we believe man was created in the PHYSICAL image of God, do you? After, his Word tells us that he is a spirit, NOT a physical being. (John 4:24.

However, the Bible describes God as having many attributes with which he endowed humans, including but not limited to love, justice, power, & wisdom. We have these because God has these, but we don't have them to the same degree as he.

God's major attributes include these:

God is love. 1 John 4:8, 16; Exodus 34:6; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Micah 7:18

Excels in wisdom. Job 12:13; Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 2:7

Is just, exercises justice. Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 37:28

Is almighty, has all power. Job 37:23; Revelation 7:12; 4:11

Update 3:

@ Sunshine

@ Phronesis

@ Greytower

Thank you all for your contributions to this discussion.

For once, Greytower & I are in agreement! :-)

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Gosh, I'd never thought about that. Certainly there is nothing simple about humans, or the manner in which they reproduce. How did the reproductive organs get here? After all, evolution posits that life "spontaneously combusted" out of a "chemical soup" (my terminology) and after life evolved in the oceans, it crawled out of the sea, onto dry land and evolved lungs, legs and sex organs. Wow!

    Must have required billions upon billions of mutations before "it" got it right - eventually. By "it" I mean random chance. Mind boggling!

    I might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night! I go with what the Bible says. "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness" (Genesis 1:26). Evolutionists might think they got here by accident, but Christians know they got here by design. LM

    (((Abdijah))) Yes, we agree on some fundamental truths.

  • KennyB
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Basically, no. Sexual reproduction has evolutionary advantages -- acting to pass only species-specific information to the progeny.

    Now, the simple fact is that almost every large species reproduces sexually but this is not a "chicken and egg" problem in that many intermediate species exist that have both male and female organs ON THE SAME organism. This obviates the need for separate evolution of a male and a female before sex becomes popular. It is only much later, after the success of sexual reproduction has been established, that the separate of the male and the female takes place.

    Two "separate" lines of evolution (male and female simultaneously) NEVER occurred.

    Finally, I ask, if life on earth requires a creator, why doesn't the creator need a creator?

    And, if the creator doesn't need a creator, why does life?

  • 8 years ago

    Today we have sexual reproduction as well. For this to take place there must be a male and a female, each one providing genetic material which must be comatible with the other, and which must combine in order to produce offspring.

    - That is at least one class you did not fail.

    What allowed compatible sexual beings to evolve; and how did they manage to reproduce while they were evolving?

    - The process of evolution. You NEED a "someone" in there to direct things, that does not mean there was a "someone".

    Also, until they actually reached a stage where they were able to reproduce with each other, these sexual functions were useless,

    - That is a Behe "opinion" you have no proof, but it has to be for your paradigm to function. Behe said the same thing even though he was proven wrong in all aspects.

    Until they became functional, these organs did nothing to promote survival or to perpetuate the species.

    - to prove that you would have a PhD and a Nobel Prize, until then it is an opinion, nothing more.

    “And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.”

    - Yet that part of the bible was plagiarized from the Sumerian tablets, poorly plagiarized by the way, and you have never proven a god exists. Again, it is necessary for your paradigm, but that does not mean it is real.

  • 8 years ago

    The 'thinkers' who have ridiculed you seem to be typical - not recognizing that heterosexual macro-evolution defies mathematical probability because it requires multiple (minimum of 4) simultaneous identical genetic mutations at the same location to produce one male and one female of a 'new' species. In order for that 'new' species to continue for any length of time without genetic degeneration ("inbreeding" problems"), considerably more than 4 simultaneous mutations would be required.

    As for God creating man in His image and likeness - I propose that His 'image' consists of the 'observable' or, if you will, the 'scientific' elements of His existence (both physical [actual] and spiritual), and His 'likeness' refers to the potential for His character - free will.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    At the time I am writing this, user KennyB is the only person who has even attempted to provide answer to your question. Everyone else offers criticism, but fail to answer.

    Some are questioning your honesty in placing the question here, but your last statement makes it legitimate to be here. I guess they ridicule because they cannot answer.

    Besides that, this section is chock full of Atheists and evolutionists.

    I like your question and agree with your premise.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Some people's attempt to explain will use plants and animals as examples of how two sexes can be evolved or how they can have both and then one dies and the other survives and then you find a mate to match so humans bodies are like that and blah blah blah blah....yet there is still that nagging question in the back of my head as to no matter what I read or listen to is:

    WHY DID WHATEVER STARTED EVOLVING STOP EVOLVING????!!!!

    We are not flowers, we are not fishes in the sea, we are not amoebas, nor are we like some mutant fish that came out of a boiling soup and started changing...

    We are intelligent creatures that can create things. The things we create, we have the ability to fee good about it for it can bring us pleasure and a sense of pride that we did it! We, the only living creatures on earth, have the ability to love our children and others. We have the options to make choices in life and not be driven by pure instinct. We enjoy life! We can say and express that we do! No monkey, no fish can express wide ranges of emotions by choice.

    Free will could never be evolved.

    We truly are the image of our Creator.

  • 8 years ago

    HONEST people ask Science questions in the appropriate Science section.

    DISHONEST people ask Science questions in R&S, because they don't WANT an actual answer based on Science.

    Thank you for making it so clear which kind of asker you are.

    Let me try to make crystal clear what is established beyond reasonable doubt, and what needs further study, about evolution. Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry. By contrast, the mechanisms that bring evolution about certainly need study and clarification. There are no alternatives to evolution as history that can withstand critical examination. Yet we are constantly learning new and important facts about evolutionary mechanisms.

    - Theodosius Dobzhansky "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution", American Biology Teacher vol. 35 (March 1973) reprinted in Evolution versus Creationism, J. Peter Zetterberg ed., ORYX Press, Phoenix AZ 1983

  • 8 years ago

    The gospel according to Darwin. The evolution of both a key and a lock without there even being a door would of course be a bigger miracle than anything recorded in the bible... but shhh don't tell anyone.

    It is best not to question the holy grail of neo-darwinsim. Go in peae my child and research no more!

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    How many imagined human like supernatural beings are living in space and why would they need arms and legs and internal organs, like lungs, hearts, livers, kidneys or sexual organs in space!!!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Pretty much. Otherwise we would just be swimming around in that gene--amoeba sea for all eternity just waiting for a miracle to happen. :D

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