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To: a fool in paradise

Not sure why I’m wasting my time but...

Individuals do not evolve. Populations are the basis of evolution. There was no “magic moment” where an ape gave birth to a human. There was a population of apes which became separated, at least in the sense of breeding, from another similar population of apes. One of these populations gradually developed characteristcs that were more and more human-like. Modern humans descend from that population. There would have been a large number of members of this population at the time when they became recognizably human.

In case you think there’s no evidence for such things, refer to the talkorigin.org faq’s. There are pictures of fossils on there of hominids that are neither clearly ape-like nor clearly human-like. They have asked prominent creationists whether these were apes or humans. All responded to the question, but the responses differed depending on which creationist was asked. Now, if an organism must either be clearly an ape or clearly a human, how can there be disagreement about whether it’s an ape or a human? There certainly were populations of organisms such as I’ve described, where human-like characteristics began to appear in an ape-like species.


24 posted on 08/05/2013 9:40:42 AM PDT by stremba
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To: stremba
Individuals do not evolve. Populations are the basis of evolution. There was no “magic moment” where an ape gave birth to a human. There was a population of apes which became separated, at least in the sense of breeding, from another similar population of apes. One of these populations gradually developed characteristcs that were more and more human-like. Modern humans descend from that population. There would have been a large number of members of this population at the time when they became recognizably human.

That's a whole lot of inbreeding to perpetuate those genes, which is generally not a desirable thing within isolated populations.

29 posted on 08/05/2013 9:58:22 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: stremba

Romans 1:22

II Corinthians 10:12

Proverbs 26:4

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Matthew 7:6


30 posted on 08/05/2013 10:03:49 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: stremba

Sorry, I did not evolve from apes.


35 posted on 08/05/2013 10:32:41 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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