Darwin origin of the species. Thoughts?

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Darwin origin of the species. Thoughts?

Answer 1

I started blocking creationist trolls sometime back & since I have you on my blocked user list... I can only suspect this is another question meant to harrass people that believe in things like the "Theory of Gravity" or any other legitimate science!

Answer 2

it is highly blasphemous even to suggest that humans are made on God's image. we are like God than?

i have never been in your kitchen - but, i know, that you have spoon there. how? because it is so highly likely that i m ready to state it as truth. you do not have elephant in your kitchen - how do i know that? because it is very unlikely.

that is how science works. allways ready to change, improve, welcomes, even begs, for criticism. science is the most honest, the most trustworthy approach to seeking truth. we agree with darwin because it is the most plausible, highly likely explanation. we disagree with eg. creationism because it is very unlikely.

Answer 3

It's the grasses, they've got together and are cynically using man to dominate the planet... Think about it what with the dependence on wheat, the explosion of golf and so on.

Answer 4

Its a shame that such a profound peice of work paved the way for scientific racism and loosers like lombroso

Answer 5

We checked "whatmans..." claim that "Darwin,...which resulted in all seven of his children having physical or mental disorders"

There were 10 children born and seven survived to adulthood.

Among their careers were a banker, mayor, author, member of Parliament,Astronomer, mathematician, botanist, soldier, engineer and so on. That's quite a family. It's very doubtful that

"all seven of his children having physical or mental disorders"

Their names and lives were:

William Erasmus Darwin

The first of Darwin's children was born on December 27, 1839. He was a graduate of Christ’s College at Cambridge University, and was a banker in Southampton.

Anne Elizabeth Darwin

Born on March 2 1841, and died at the age of ten (she may have had tuberculosis) on April 23, 1851. It was the death of Annie that radically altered Darwin’s belief in Christianity.

Mary Eleanor Darwin

Born on September 23, 1842 but died a few weeks later on October 16th.

Henrietta Emma Darwin ("Etty")

Born on September 25, 1843 and married Richard Buckley Litchfield in August of 1871. She lived 86 years and edited Emma's (her mother) personal letters and had them published in 1904.

George Howard Darwin

Born on July 9, 1845. He was an astronomer and mathematician, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society (sort of like the American National Academy of Science) in 1879. In 1883 he became the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University, and was a Barrister-at-Law.

Elizabeth Darwin

Born on July 8, 1847 and died in 1926.

Francis Darwin

Born on August 16, 1848. He became a botanist specializing in plant physiology. He helped his father with his experiments on plants and was of great influence in Darwin's writing of "The Power of Movement in Plants" (1880). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879, and taught at Cambridge University from 1884, as a Professor of Botany, until 1904.

Leonard Darwin

Born on January 15, 1850. He became a soldier in the Royal Engineers in 1871, and was a Major from 1890 onwards. He taught at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham from 1877 to 1882, and served in the Ministry of War, Intelligence Division, from 1885-90. He later became a liberal-unionist MP for the town of Lichfield in Staffordshire 1892-95, and was president of the Royal Geological Society 1908-11.

Horace Darwin

Born on May 13, 1851. He was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and became an engineer and a builder of scientific instruments. In 1885 he founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. He was the Mayor of Cambridge from 1896-97, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903.

Charles Waring Darwin

Born on December 6, 1856 but died on June 28 1858.

Answer 6

Did you ever wonder why lions and a pet cat look very similar to each other? Or why the Dodo bird was flightless, seemingly just waiting for man to come to their island and hunt them to extinction?

It is ignorance to accept that these things were just put there.

Evolution is the only theory which explains the differences and similarities between all species of life on Earth. It is one of the most robust, yet elegant, theories to be put forward.

I don't know where Nutsters gets her information from, but Darwin's theory of natural selection has never been disproved. It is supported by many branches of science, I cannot think of a branch of science which can be used to reject it.

In fact, the prime antagonists to when it was released, 150 years ago, the Catholic Church, now accepts that Evolution is the most valid theory for the ascendancy of Humans.

Allow me to quote from section 63 of web page below:

".....Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution. While the story of human origins is complex and subject to revision, physical anthropology and molecular biology combine to make a convincing case for the origin of the human species in Africa about 150,000 years ago in a humanoid population of common genetic lineage......"

The opponents of evolution are spitting into the wind.

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Answer 7

As I have answered before on here, evolution is nothing but a theory. A decent theory at that, I'll grant you. Most scientists now are swaying away from this theory.

Why cant people just accept animals, humans were made this way and not constantly tranfoming into something else.

Back when Darwin wrote the book, he was mocked, quite rightly in my view, but I do understand why people accept it, they have no faith in creationism.  They always look for a 'scientific' view to everything.

http://www.evanwiggs.com/articles/reason...

Answer 8

Well, he did uncover the mechanism for evolution...but the origin of species ... not quite.

Will we ever know how the first single cell was made?

All we have is the cambrian explosion, but (similiar to the creation of the universe) we can always ask: "what was before that?"

Answer 9

It's a book worth reading.

Especially if you think it's designed as alternative to creationism or something. People who think that never read it.

Answer 10

More logical than any other theory I've heard.

Answer 11

Like most other pioneering research, Darwin got it almost right!

Of course, he did not have the benefit of the extra century, or  so's research and discoveries, like DNA and genetic development.

Answer 12

I don't believe in what he says.I'm a christian so I believe that we came from Adam and Eden.We can't believe in the evolution of humans from monkeys if we believe that we were made in God's image.

Answer 13

darwins theory of evolution was disproved back in the 80's with the introduction of carbon-testing/dating.

when his prize exhibit turned out to be a fake & a fraud.

he would have hated modern science if he'd lived long enough!

Answer 14

Its a load of rubbish....The Human race are hybreds of Alien and Ape DNA....Who do you think killed the Dynosaurs. We are an Alien experiment thats been going on for centuries. Why do you think we have been visited for so long and there has been human abductions. Because we are being constantly tested.? Yes we the human race evolved in Africa, because thats where the ape was found. Aliens have been watching us evolve into what we have become today, the Human Race.!!

Answer 15

Darwin's was not an original idea.  He wasn't the first to think of it.  It really has it's roots with the Egyptians I think.  And Erasmus Darwin before Charles.  He was his Grandad.

It became a basis for much racial abuse as well.

I don't think it's true.

Answer 16

If Darwin had whole skeletons of transforming species from one to another, then he would be believe able. There should be hundreds of these in between species dug up by now.

But there isn't any to view.

Answer 17

We never came from ADAM & EVE Period

yes we came from a type of a animal form

Look at the what we call Defects in people Dont they even resemble that of other animals ?

Why did my X mother in law had 6 **** ?  4 very small very small

Why did my husband had 4 the same ?  they are so small someone might think they where just little pink numbs

Not so

O.k everyone doesn't  want to say we came from apes ? Thats only because they are afraid they are not Superior . bull@$#&^

certain races came from different animals White, Black, Yellow etc

We all now humans and should be treated the same

Life has given us the thoughts we all have

And mine are mine , I would bet any thing to prove me wrong

And please don;t use the good book It was written by a bunch of ??????

The mother earth knows  if we could just see with OPEN minds , we all would be a genius,,

The Bible has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS

Because it was not around when we were evolving ...



Have you ever heard a elk Bugle ?

Why does it sound like a whale ,

why do Elk  they have 2 ivory teeth ?

Why do we have to think that there is only one God ?

Lets start from the very BEGINNING ??

And as far as I know No one has addressed the Mother earth as  having all the answers ?? Why

instead of all these scientists ?

Answer 18

Extremely plausible.  Likely in fact.  And I think modern man is a less physical more cranial hybrid planted like a seed into a far more brutal primitive human animal who was here first, had taken root and learned to survive the harsh elements.

Yea, I think God is a lot like a winemaker.