Quote from Wallet:
Fingerprints of a divine creator perhaps?
When I look around me and notice the complexity of my surroundings, I find it impossible to conclude that it all evolved by chance.
Quote from lindq:
It didn't evolve by chance. It evolved by human intervention as soon as we stood upright and began to speak.
Look around you right now. What about your environment is natural, and has not been created or manipulated by man?
You eat synthetic food, wear synthetic clothes, take synthetic drugs, use synthetic energy and live a synthetic, unnatural life.
Yes, there are a few natural diseases, environments and weather patterns that we don't yet control. But that is changing now. Give us a couple hundred years and NATURE won't even rate a mention in Wikipedia.
We are no longer natural beings, and our technical/biological progress will continue to take us farther away from processes that are not controlled and managed by us.
Quote from morganist:
What you are describing is in itself an area of question. What creates the awareness that enables evolution. In addition why is the point of evolving unless it is to achieve something. What is enabling man to appreciate things to be interventionalist.
Quote from Free Thinker:
you obviously dont have an understanding of evolution. it has nothing to do with awareness. its survival in the enviroment the organism finds itself in.
here is an elementary example of how evolution works: lets take rabbits. the rabbits are living in a warm climate and everything is going fine. they have predators but since the rabbits are mostly brown colored they blend in with the vegatation and predators dont see them well.
along comes global cooling and the climate changes from vegatation to white snow. the brown rabbits stand out in the white snow and are sitting ducks for predators. they are slowly being wiped out. fortunately because of a mutation some rabbits were always born white. they had a tough time when there was no snow but now they blend in perfectly with the snow and because the brown rabbits are being killed by predators eventually white rabbits breeding with other white rabbits causes most rabbits to be born white. that is how evolution works.
survival of the fittest does not have to mean the strongest. it could also mean smartest or best able to adapt.
mutations happen in organisms. some are good, some are bad. there doesnt have to be an awareness. some have a better ability to take advantage of the enviroment around them.Quote from morganist:
What is it that creates the awareness in the animal that enables it adapt and what then creates the new design to adapt to the envronment. If you need a faster car you need to add a new engine which means a new design and implentation of that engine. What designs the new development or at least the ability of the animal to physically change in the first place.
Quote from Free Thinker:
mutations happen in organisms. some are good, some are bad. there doesnt have to be an awareness. some have a better ability to take advantage of the enviroment around them.
scientists have found animals that lived in caves for millions of years that have not evolved the ability to see while similar animals outside in the sunlight have eyes. why?
Quote from morganist:
What creates the ability to mutate? Whether it fails or it is successful there is some design going on. Cars don't just sprout new engines there is design. Animals are the same there must be something designing the new limb or ear or wings. What is that?
Quote from Free Thinker:
if i were you and had these questions i would spend some time studying science. its a beautiful thing.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/archive/sloozeworm/mutationbg.html