[Red Badger]

Okay, then why did humans continue to evolve if there was no impetus to do so?.......

[Alter Kaker]

Okay, then why did humans continue to evolve if there was no impetus to do so?.......

Humans continue to evolve and cockroaches continue to evolve. As long as allele frequencies change, evolution is taking place. There are a number of factors currently driving evolution in both humans and cockroaches: DNA mutation, the fact that not all individuals reproduce succesfully (aka natural selection), gene flow, and genetic drift.

[sittnick]

Okay, then why did humans continue to evolve if there was no impetus to do so?.......

Evolutionists would say that there WAS one or more (changing weather, changing food sources, new predators to outflank, etc.) For the record, I am on your side, I believe Darwinian macro-evolution to be ridiculous. I was just pointing out that this particular argument is easily dealt with by them.

It's easy to postulate things happening in prehistoric times, because, as Chesterton points out, it's prehistoric. We really don't know what happened. The scientifically honest approach would be to say that we DON'T know where everything came from (from a scientific point of view) and leave it at that. The whole question does not lend itself to study by the scientific method. There are limitations to what scientific method can reveal or prove.