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For people that don't believe in evolution, if humankind can, in just twenty thousand years (or whatever), selectively breed into....?

....existence all of today's many various domestic canine breeds from a single ancient wild canine species, why does it seem impossible to you that billions of years of natural selective processes couldn't produce species that differ radically compared to their common ancestors? I mean, I don't believe the Noah story, but do you think there were beagles, bulldogs, and poodles on the ark?

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  • 2 years ago

    They are lazy and it is easier to say goddidit.

  • 2 years ago

    It was NOT 20,000 years - only about 4,300 years

    First, define the word evolution -

    I believe it means that one species becomes (evolves) into a completely NEW species.

    (This is MACRO-evolution)

    To selectively breed a Chihuahua, or a Irish Wolf Hound from a wild wolf is NOT evolution it is a variation within a species, that some call MICRO-evolution.

    They are still all the same KIND are they not? – therefore they did NOT evolve, they are merely a new variety. Maybe a Dalmatian, Jack Russell terrier or a Great Dane in the dog example above.

    MICRO-evolution (variation) has been observed many times, but

    MACRO-evolution has NEVER been observed, No transitional fossils have ever been found, and properly identified as such.

    No, evolution is an unproven belief.

  • EddieJ
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    The important thing for you to learn from your asking this question is that creationists accept what they have decided to call "microevolution". So, they believe that the Ark had maybe a tiger, and, later that microevolved into cougars and leopards and cats.

    They don't believe in what they call "macroevolution" where a dog evolved into a cat. But scientists don't think dogs evolved into cats, or the other way around. They both evolved from an ancestor that had some characteristics of dogs and cats combined, and, by getting isolated, natural selection bred the the doglike attributes out of the population that eventually became the first true felines and the catlike attributes got bred out of the group that became the canines.

    Many theists can accept that that happened. But they aren't willing to accept that primitive apes evolved into humans. So, arguing about animal evolution doesn't get you where you want to go.

  • 2 years ago

    Creationists are dumb. They think that we have to choose between the Bible and science. If I had never heard of the Bible except for that idiotic claim, I would not be a Christian. Thank God that I looked deeper than that.

    Genesis was written to sheepherders who lived 3000 years ago, not to 21st Century scientists.

    People deny evolution because they haven't figured out that the Genesis passage was written to people who were herding sheep 3000 years ago. These sheep herders did not know about quantum relativity, string theory, Higg's boson or time frames of billions of years. The purpose of the Genesis account is about who (God) made the Universe, not about when or how He made it.

    The Time line of Creation

    http://www.rareuniverse.org/timeline.html

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    How come not single Atheist, not even a collage professor, has ever been able to state how even one thing they claim to beleive could have developed into their next belief?

    It is six thousand years ago that GOD made us all!

    Back in the 1930s the Atheists had challenged Believers of GOD to court and were Accepted! The Atheists did Not have even one item of proof! They had believed that If they just spoke the loudest they could win. The Atheists LOST with their Zero proofs!

    GOD Won with Tons of Proofs confirming the Bible even back then!

    It is now well known that ever single sentence of history in the Bible have anywhere from three to more than 250 Records found confirming it/them! Plus all the places in the Bible that are even still here these days! The Order went out to Test ALL that the Atheists had paid to be made-up to look like their beliefs. These all took years. It was in 2007 when they were finished and it is scientists that Discovered that ALL that the Atheists had used are fakes! Most of what the Atheists had calmed to be millions to billions of years old are really New BONES from lots of already known of animals, to make-up each of the Atheists Fakes! Of what fossils the Atheists had, not one tested to be more then 6,000 year old; just as the Bible states! And most of them still have some blood in them!

  • It does not matter if you believe that there has been Noah, but God entrusted him with the task of saving the animals before the universal flood! Obvious that on the vessel c'were each type of animals!

  • David
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Again? Did you forget where you posted the last one?

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