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To: microgood
Macroevolution has many issues like how some of the more complex features could have evolved from a single celled creature given an random unguided process.

Evolution is not a random process. You bring to mind Dawkins' words about people who reject evolution.

For example, one could even believe that we all descended from a chimp like creature, but when you get past that to evolving from a creature with no eyes,brain, arms, or legs, you just can't get there with gradualism.

Why not?

To say the siafu ants from Africa, with their highly complex society and language were the product of random mutation and natural selection will never be known, yet it is stated.

The evolution of behavior in ants is discussed in Sociobiology. You should read it. It's a classic.

202 posted on 02/01/2006 5:41:08 PM PST by Right Wing Professor (When your mind's made up, nothing's more confusing than lots and lots and lots of facts.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Evolution is not a random process. You bring to mind Dawkins' words about people who reject evolution.

You are right. I meant to say unguided.

Why not?

Because I do not see how even if the world was 300 trillion years old you could mutate your way from a single cell creature to a human. You can call it the argument from incredulity but it just does not make any sense. What I find incredible is that anyone actually believes it. I must be missing something.

I can buy evolution up to our common ancestor with the chimps but after that (or before that) you lose me.

The evolution of behavior in ants is discussed in Sociobiology. You should read it. It's a classic.

Thanks, I will check it out. Those ants fascinate me. Some show on discovery said their language is way more complicated than human language and is transmitted through high frequency waves of some kind.
218 posted on 02/01/2006 6:44:12 PM PST by microgood
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To: Right Wing Professor
The evolution of behavior in ants is discussed in Sociobiology. You should read it. It's a classic.

A moving example of living ROM's.

272 posted on 02/02/2006 7:42:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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