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4. You are representing a common misconception of ...

2011-01-10T16:47:24.649-05:00

4. You are representing a common misconception of evolution when you say "Cockroaches will not be around in a million years, they will evolve into something else". How do you know this? They are incredibly fit and have been around for 350 million years. Bacteria have been around for several billion years and remain largely unchanged.

you point out many misconceptions of of the genera...

2011-01-10T16:39:46.477-05:00

you point out many misconceptions of of the general populace to evolution, however your wand waving explanation of how life arose from non-life is mere speculation. In fact, you are simply using time as an explanation for how complex life forms came into existence. "A few billion years and some random chemical reactions and poof, we have complex cellular machinery". This is not how science works.

Not bad, with a few small problems i see. Evolutio...

2010-10-19T01:20:02.304-04:00

Not bad, with a few small problems i see. Evolution IS "survival of the fittest", however, people take that to mean the strongest species or the fastest within a species or whatever. sometimes the "fittest" (genetically speaking) was just lucky. one pride of lions contracts a disease that kills all of them, where another pride is never introduced to the disease, despite being only a short distance away. the second group was more "fit", though not due to anything they actually did.

Another thing, the cockroaches. They are INCREDIBLY fit because they can breed like mad and survive things most organisms cannot (they can survive more radiation than most creatures, they can survive by eating nearly any organic matter), but this does not mean each cockroach is individually "fit" for survival.

Lastly, the theory that dictates how life started scientifically is abiogenesis. Chaos theory explains how, over the course of billions of years with billions of possibilities finally these correct chemicals come into contact, but abiogenesis is the actual theory. It means, literally, "Creation without life".

Wow, great stuff! Thanks for the lesson. There wer...

2010-01-25T18:00:43.535-05:00

Wow, great stuff! Thanks for the lesson. There were definitely things I was misinformed about.

Ha, I remember being a little girl and my dad telling me that males were born with one less rib than females. Why? Because Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs. And for the longest time I actually believed men walked around with a gap in their rib cage. Way to go, Bible.

#4: If America came from England, why is there sti...

2010-01-24T00:35:19.585-05:00

#4: If America came from England, why is there still England?

For #4 I usually say the following: "If my c...

2010-01-23T13:02:56.700-05:00

For #4 I usually say the following:

"If my cousin and I descended from our grandparents, then why do we still have grandparents?"

Then I explain that "my cousin" is a monkey, "I" am a human, and our grandparents are our common ancestor.