That’s not how it works. It’s an accumulation of mutations that lead to new features, over several individuals.
It’s not like two parents will produce a mutated offspring with a larger brain or so. It’s gradual favouring of mutations that lead to slightly higher intelligence (say), that accumulate through natural selection, over several generations, that lead to the changes.
I can’t or won’t understand it, but how could a one in a billion happening, happen more than once...and in such a manner as to have the two things be compatible?.....just a question that rolls around in my head. Like how could two neanderthals, or two cro-magnons, or two homo-sapiens exist at the same time? Only if the first life forms evolved simultaneously and mutated simultaneously....I don’t know, it takes more effort to believe in random selection, life starting from a chemical soup, than from a guiding force.
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That’s not how it works. It’s an accumulation of mutations that lead to new features, over several individuals.
So what we have through “evolution” is:
1. Life from non-life.
2. Spontaneous generation of irreducibly complex systems.
3. Sight from non-sight.
4. Flight from non-flight.
5. Intelligence from non-intelligence.
6. Aesthetic appreciation from previously non-aesthetic beings.
And all through “time, plus chance, plus the impersonal” (Francis Schaeffer).
Anyone who believes that has faith in “random,” or is a total hypocrite in what they assert, believing none of it. I would rather have faith in God, even though He transcends my intelligence. At least He doesn’t insult it.