How would anyone know? They currently only follow this one twisted paradigm and no other.
Evolution “allows for convergent evolution (statistically impossible), stagnant evolution (you mean to tell me that for 500 million years there could be no improvement to the horseshoe crab?), punctuated evolution (everything stays the same for a real long time and then evolution kicks into high gear and it all happens so fast there’s no record of it having happened at all), neutral evolution (the blueprints for marvelously useful structures get created in unexpressed DNA by random shuffling, until one day voila, the gene is turned on and the structure appears fully formed). In evolution anything goes and contradictions live in happy harmony with one another. This is science? It’s not even a sound religion.
- Laszlo Bencze”
Convergent evolution is statistically impossible? Nonsense, if a certain adaptation is helpful for the survival of one species, something very similar is biologically possible and even likely. Dinosaurs in some species had beaks, birds generally have beaks, fish both now extinct and living parrotfish have beaks, even the platypus has a beak. A beak solves feeding problems for many species and has going long into the past. We are all variations on similar biology so it makes sense that species separately or from inherited genes develop beaks. The “statistical impossibility” is silly unless you adopt the 6,000 years limitation.
Stagnant evolution? If it’s not broke, don’t fix it comes to mind. Perfection isn’t the “goal” of evolution survival and propagation is. There are quite a few organisms, both plant and animal in this situation. That’s however not to say that no other species evolved from them. There are some ferns that date back, unchanged since the Carboniferous as well as many newer species. The same is true for horsetails. The fact that a new species evolves from an older species by no means suggests that the old species dies out or otherwise ceases to be. Look up evolution of new species where there is geographical isolation. Hey! Sounds like Darwin’s finches!
Neutral evolution as explained makes utterly no sense from the perspective of what evolution actually says. Perhaps the fact that some mutations that neither help nor harm are passed to descendants if it’s a frequently occurring mutation within the species.
We have inherited the genes for tails and gills though we have no external tail nor gills. They are not turned on, if you will, but are inherited from ancestors in our direct chain that had one or the other.