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To: PieterCasparzen
Well, as to number of generations, I’m really trying to figure this out for real, not just say something’s true and forget about it.

I know, I was not mocking you. It would be impossible to estimate, since the arrival of the first mammals happened somewhere between 190 and 140 millions years ago.

That gives you a 50 millions year spread, so it would reasonably throw your calculations off in the millions, even if you divided by 15 for humans, which wouldn't be accurate either since they didn't even show up until tens of millions of years after that.

I don't think its something that's knowable.

I’ve looked at the “evolution time line” that is generally accepted and there is no possible way that enough evolution could have occurred.

I don't understand how you could possibly calculate this. What defines "enough evolution"? You couldn't even get evolutionary biologists to postulate something like that. In some cases they're still fighting over the concept of punctuated equilibrium.

Evolution occurred. We can see it in the fossil record and in transitional fossils. To paraphrase Haldane, we haven't found rabbits in the Precambrian yet.

Newton didn't know the nature of gravity, and it took theories to postulate its nature.

As Einstein proved, it wasn't really a force at all, but a warping of spacetime. Maybe someone will come along and be able to usurp the current theory of evolution and explain how life evolved, but it doesn't change the fact that evolution occurs, even right before our eyes with fruit flies and bacteria, and with the fossil record in specimens like the platypus jaw to archaeopteryx.

Whether its a slow process, punctuated equilibrium, or a combination of both is for future scientists to discover.

If you come up with a better theory, the world will beat a path to your door, not to mention fame and fortune.

18 posted on 01/20/2010 8:03:21 PM PST by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

Fruit flies are fruit flies, and they’ve had plenty of generations to evolve.


19 posted on 01/21/2010 12:14:07 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: GunRunner

enough evolution was meaning to say enough generations for visible evolution to happen.

certainly 10 generations can’t evolve a new bodily organ.

my point is that if there have only been say 100,000,000 generations of mammals, that is nowhere near enough generations to deviate from a simple mammal to a chimp or a human.


20 posted on 01/21/2010 12:20:53 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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