I don't think so.. but maybe? Think of the mayans. They haven't began there own species? There ethnicity maybe different, but there still 100% homo sapien.. Will they evolve separate from us eventually, you think?
What are you saying with this statment? If we walled off Australia for long enough, the two groups (Australians and non Australians) on the outside would have undergone enough mutations that they are genetically different enough that they cannot or choose not to interbreed with Australian. That is evolution. This is also a classic example, one that Darwin himself wrote about. A Japanese and a Mayan are analogous to a golden retriever and a corgi, not to a jackal and a dog.
I believe in creationist evolution. I think all species began with a specific dna code, and the other types evolved because of different environments. Make sense at all?
creationists accept nature is its higher power (created them). Les, I'm saying, I think they'd stay human, but evolve there ethnicity/appearance/intelligence.
Creationists believe that a supernatural being is their higher power/creator. Non-Creationists usually are more likely to feel more coexistant with nature, if you will.
Well I believe I was created by nature, but am not sure if what created nature has thought process yet, or if it's just the source of energy. Now you can replace nature with god in my last post. Creationists believe god created nature, and then them (by whatever process they choose). That's how I see it anyways..
Evolution occurs when changes in DNA occur, simple as that. Natural selection is the process. You don't see humans evolve because there is no real selection and you will not be around long enough to see it happen. Evolution in intelligence would occur if all the smartest people in the world got together and only made babies with each other, and their babies only made babies with each other, etc. Then over time (hundreds of thousands of years) the smart people's DNA would start to drift away from everyone else's DNA until eventually they are deemed a new species. Maybe in this example some mutation arose in the smart population that caused them to have 3 ears. Over time everyone would have 3 ears. There's you "evolution of appearance". I have no idea what evolution of ethnicity is.
OK. right on. I respect your faith les. I agree, but I think the major changes were caused by a higher force than environment. That is our only difference. Environment creates ethnicity, but not separation from species in my eyes. Again, why wouldn't all the ape types cause other human types? Why only one human form? Which ape did we come from? Are you saying these other apes have stopped evolving also (besides maybe separate types of apes (ethnicity))? We were rather separate in the beginning of mankind, why haven't we seen any major changes to homo sapien? (besides race, and maybe more intelligence in certain races) Again, this separate race does not make me think they will ever become more than human, even if they look different physically. If they were to evolve, why would some stick around? (apes)
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Why don't you become an evolutionary biologist and tell me? haha These questions cannot be answered and in my opinion will never be answered with full certainty, only speculation. Who's to say we even came from an ape? If anything this is what I believe...
Your idea of environment is shallow. It not where they are but what happens there, ex natural disasters physical barriers that separate a population, exposure to certain things such as certain food, disease, etc and yes I know I spelled "monkeys" wrong
Well I think you interpreted my post about the universe wrong. I was trying to point out that the argument that creationists use saying "this world is too complex, there must be intelligent design" is silly, IMO. Is god the only possible thing that could create such intelligent 'design'? Can the universe not be so powerful and spectuacular to do so? I mean, the universe has BILLIONS of galaxies within it, galaxies that are much more complex than earth.
I realise it is very powerful, but I think it all has a source. source=infinite (source of energy)(think big bang). It is far too complex for me to think it is a natural coincidence. It is all a natural miracle to me.
If our universe naturally occuring seems so hard to believe, then how can you possibly grasp the idea of a supernatural being pulling all of the strings? One seems much more plausible than the other, to me at least.
Because of all the laws required for everything to exist. Ultimately, I think the source of energy caused it all, whatever that may be. I'm not sure I believe it has thought process, just that it creates consciousness through energy, but I'm leaning toward intelligence lately (considering dna, and all these amazing laws). I gotta go though. later guys.
These laws should not amaze you so much. It was not like a creator just said ok there are the laws now lets put some things in to be manipulated by the laws. These laws arose through interactions which had just the right temperatures, precursors, degrees of freedom, coherency and conversely decoherecy, you did not have all the laws in the beginning. Look into Baryogenesis its what happened before (theoretically of course) the big bang nucleosynthesis that happened through minutes 3-20 after the big bang. We know quite a bit and what it really boils down to is people are ignorant of what science actually has to say, it takes a lot of time to grasp most of these concepts on your own with no professor there to help you out but I say to everyone read, learn and grow the knowledge is out there go find it, at least you can learn the true weaknesses in some of the theories and actually challenge scientific thinkers!