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Originally Posted by Moontanman
I'm willing to give Questor the benefit of the doubt for now, he hasn't shown any signs of being a religious nut case. Maybe he really wants to know what is going on, it behooves us to at least give him a chance.
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My spidey sense is tingling, but okay. On with the show then..
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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Questor, no man can ever become a chimp, no chimp can ever become a man. A lemur cannot become a man, you are asking nonsensical questions. The change from one species to another can happen over just a few generations but that would be a tiny change, the change from a lemur to a man or even from a chimp to a man would literally take millions of generations with thousands of different species between the two. The changes occur at the genetic level from environmental pressures acting on random mutations. You do understand that chimps are not the ancestors of humans don't you?
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You got it, Moonman. Chimpanzees and humans are both
modern primates. Our common ancestor was neither a chimpanzee or a human, it was something else. The common ancestor gave birth to the patri/matriarchs of two lineages; ours, and the chimps, and these two lineages diverged and adapted to different niches and were exposed to different selection pressures. Modern chimps and humans are very well adapted for their own niches and accordingly very different species.
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Originally Posted by questor
I would assume the time line of life was well beyond the single cell life form and we have to deal with the problem of how genetic material was able to change enough to make all the new phyla down to new species of life in the last 500 million years
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Why do you think the variation in genes cannot account for the variation in phenotype?
Also, on the "specific weaknesses" section of the wikipedia
"Strenghts And Weaknesses" page, the creationist objections to the Cambrian explosion are addressed. Even though this isn't a creationist thread
, I figure someone may benefit from it anyway.
