or were they created? :-)
The chair I'm in doesn't have an ounce of wood in it (except for the one I get when I run across a pic of Jessica Alba)! Here's one for you! Butterflies use to be caterpillars, did they evolve or were they created?
You shouldn't have had that second bowl of stupid this morning..... If you are 99.9% full of crap, did you evolve from a rectum? BeckyM, thank you for showing the rest of us why you find your version of evolution to be so impossible. Evolution, as you described it, is certainly an impossibility in the natural world. Fortunately, evolutionary theory is really nothing like what you described (ie it actually does make sense and continues whether you believe it or not) and is obvious to anyone that actually takes the time to learn about it. I will now leave you to your ignorance....
Chairs aren't involved with the reproduction process of trees, therefor are not part of evolution. But scientifically, if you see a chair that is 99.9% wood, it would obviously lead your research to trees when searching for an origin.
Ah, see, that's one of the great misconceptions of creationism right there. Individuals don't evolve; species do. Your tree no more evolves than I do, or you do, or one microbe does. However, through genetic drift and useful mutations, an entire species can slowly change into something else. One individual is unlikely to have first, so many mutations that it looks remarkably different from its parents, and second, to be able to even survive such changes if it is so unlucky. One mutation is a tricky business; they usually aren't useful, but often are tragic and fatal. Many combined together? That individual is pretty much a goner. Also, the sort of changes you are talking about generally occur well before the individual is born. For a creature as complicated as a tree, that's a whole lot of cells you have to change. Yeah, cells mutate later- sometimes, we call this cancer. But for an across the board change? Easier to do when there's only a few cells.
Ha ha ha. Love your question, but of course most of these people are too blinded by their scramble to prove Creationism wrong that they cannot even find the humor in it. The chair was obviously evolved from the tree. if it has similar qualities (i.e. wood!) it must have been that at one time. On a serious note you who have answered before me: Yes, I think there is such a thing as adaptation where a species will take on different traits to help it survive better in it's habitat, but there is NO evidence for one creature turning into another completely different creature, which is what I learned evolution to be from my teachers in public school. if there was evidence to that we would see it here and now. Monkeys are still monkeys; people are still people; butterflies are still butterflies...(and to that earlier statement about butterflies and caterpillers; my understanding of evolution is that all of a sudden a fish will mate and have babies that have legs and can walk on the ground or apes will give birth to a human. Caterpillars are larvae and their adult form is a butterfly. Just because it looks a little different doesn't mean it evolved into a completely different species. A butterfly is still going to produce caterpillar larvae who will turn into butterflies and continue the cycle.) Those of you who believe in evolution then must also be racist because according to your believes, dark skinned people are closer to apes than white skinned people and are therefore not as evolved as white people. How about that?
