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Originally Posted by Zero Signal
I have no problem with microevolution.
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This is the same BS every anti-evolutionist spews. That phrase is maddening.
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I do have a problem with humans ultimately evolving from a single-celled organism. I don't care for the monkey business either, but probability dictates that evolution the way that scientists portray it, is nigh impossible. It is a string of these improbabilities, one after another.
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Clearly, someone doesn't understand probablities. Evolution isn't random chance, although chance is a factor. Think of the history of music, for example. Music began with people hitting rocks together and stomping to a beat, which is a ridiculously simple concept that even toddlers can comprehend. If you give them pots, they bang them together, right?
Over time, music, quite literally, evolved into what it is today, (with factors of random chance involved) from the simple beats of a tribesperson in Africa or wherever, with new, individually small discoveries being added to the whole concept of music, like different instruments, the concepts of jazz, rock, etc. in much the same way that different organisms contribute their helpful mutations to the gene pool. The evolution of music (and art, literature, and even religion) is a mighty parellell to that of biological evolution, although on a much smaller scale.
If you don't go for that whole mutation thing, consider this: The cells in our bodies, even today, having evolved defenses against harmful mutation, things like corrective enzymes that scan the DNA for errors, experience a scarily high number of mutations per day, something like 100 (I can't remember the exact number, although I intend to find it) which are usually fixed by the enzymes. Just imagine how many must have occurred in single-celled organisms in the time before they evolved those defenses, not only from the bombardment of local mutagens, but cosmic rays and ultraviolet light from the sun. If you look at all the contributing factors, it starts to look less and less unlikely that it happened this way.