To: Nicholas Conradin
If evolution occurs why has it stopped why arent ants getting bigger or why arent more kinds of fish learning to fly come on hard hats why?
8 posted on
08/20/2005 6:08:58 PM PDT by
claptrap
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To: claptrap
Do you know anything about biology and evolution? At all?
To: claptrap
"If evolution occurs why has it stopped why arent ants getting bigger or why arent more kinds of fish learning to fly come on hard hats why?" Whatever makes you think evolution has stopped???
To: claptrap; Nicholas Conradin; PatrickHenry
If evolution occurs why has it stopped why arent ants getting bigger or why arent more kinds of fish learning to fly come on hard hats why? It hasn't stopped. It's just a very slow process compared to a human life time scale. Some documented examples of evolution are the changes in the coloration of moths in London due to the soot deposited on trees beginning in the 19th century and then with the removal of soot due to environmental laws after the mid 20th century. Another example is the buildup of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria since the introduction of antibiotics to medicine in the 1930's and 40's.
Anyway, why is bigger better for ants? If anything evolution has made insects and arachnids smaller than their marine living ancestors. This probably has to do with the fact that they have exoskeletons that that have to support their whole weight on land, while the buoyancy of water allows arthropods living in acquatic environments to grow bigger. Flying insects are especially constrained from getting much larger.
26 posted on
08/20/2005 6:45:17 PM PDT by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: claptrap
If evolution occurs why has it stopped why arent ants getting bigger or why arent more kinds of fish learning to fly come on hard hats why? If bigger is better, why are dinosaurs extinct?
29 posted on
08/20/2005 6:47:24 PM PDT by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: claptrap
If evolution occurs why has it stopped why arent ants getting bigger or why arent more kinds of fish learning to fly come on hard hats why? Why did you drop out of high school?
31 posted on
08/20/2005 6:48:04 PM PDT by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: claptrap
"If evolution occurs why has it stopped why arent ants getting bigger or why arent more kinds of fish learning to fly come on hard hats why?" Because you have a straw-man version of evolution firmly embedded in your skull.
55 posted on
08/20/2005 7:16:09 PM PDT by
b_sharp
(Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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