“”It’s kind of funny because the theory of evolution is based on chance mutations and natural selection,” she said. As a result, “the process can go either way.”’
Yes it can, since natural selection is environment driven. It’s nice to see fundies accept the theory of evolution.
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Scientific Evolution is a fact, but it’s not how we got here.
I’m arguing history, not science. Although based on the scientific theory of evolution, I predict that within 200 million years, it will be nearly impossible to distinguish between species, because there will be so many living “transitional forms”.
Historically, when the slightly better humans come along, it never seems to eliminate the slightly-less humans. We can still find humans of all stages of “evolution”. There’s no reason to expect any different in the future. The same would be true for most species, just because there are some better-suited offspring doesn’t mean all the other members of the species will stop breeding.
So after Evolution has had 200 million years to operate, there will be a steady trail of living forms from what we have today to the new “species” that have evolved over that 200 million years.
Evolutionists will certainly now explain why we don’t already see that in today’s world, although the answer is pretty obvious.
I can see how, in a natural environment, individual organisms that compete successfuly win the opportunity to reproduce, and individual organisms that fail the competition do not; hence the successful competitors pass their genes along to the next generation.
What I don't really understand is where the different genes (the ones that gave certain individuals that competitive advantage) came from in the first place. Evolution requires a mutagen, and so far I haven't seen that we've found it, or fully explained why we don't need it.
In the interest of full disclosure I should tell you that I'm a bible-believing Christian, and do in fact believe that there is a Creator (the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus) who is ultimately responsible for it all. Still, God's universe is full of natural phenomena, and there's no reason to believe that the mechanism He used for Creation isn't one of these phenomena.
Based on my first two paragraphs, I see a weakness in this theory for speciation purely as a function of natural selection. Yes, natural selection occurs; but all the dots aren't connected for speciation. Something's missing from the equation.