What i don't get about evolution?

Question

you really think that we were formed from a big bang millions and millions of years ago!thats out of the ordinary. if we have a tail bone then we used to have a tail?you have got to be kidding me!ha.i mean come on.we suddenly just lost our tails and formed into humans. if we were apes then why don't apes turn into humans?and where is there tail?just a thought

Answer 1

I think the whole point of evoluation is that it didn't happen "suddenly."  The changes occurred over millions of years.  And your second question is ridiculous.

Answer 2

Nothing in evolution happens suddenly. It is a very very slow process that takes generations and generations.

We were never apes. Apes and human share a common ancestor, but we did not evolve from apes themselves.

Apes cannot turn into humans. That is not how evolution works. They evolved into a different species than us and will continue to evolve in their own direction, just as we will continue to evolve in ours.

Answer 3

Your comment about the big bang does not relate to biological evolution. It does however conflict with a literal reading of Genesis. If that's your concern, you'll have to ignore much more of science than just cosmology and biology.  Sooner or later, as a creationist arguing a Biblical world-view, you'll have to take your arguments to their logical limits. Geology is wrong! Astronomy is wrong! Chemistry is wrong! Physics is wrong! And, of course, biology is wrong! So, you have a lot of work cut out for yourself!

Concerning human tails:

"More than 100 cases of human tails have been reported in the medical literature. Less than one third of the well-documented cases are what are medically known as "pseudo-tails." Pseudo-tails are not true tails; they are simply lesions of various types coincidentally found in the caudal region of newborns, often associated with the spinal column, coccyx, and various malformations. In contrast, the true atavistic tail of humans develops from the most distal end of the embryonic tail found in the developing human fetus, and it is usually benign in nature. The true human tail is characterized by a complex arrangement of adipose and connective tissue, central bundles of longitudinally arranged striated muscle in the core, blood vessels, nerve fibers, nerve ganglion cells, and specialized pressure sensing nerve organs (Vater-Pacini corpuscles). It is covered by normal skin, replete with hair follicles, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands. True human tails range in length from about one inch to over 5 inches long (on a newborn baby), and they can move and contract. Although human tails usually lack skeletal structures (some medical articles have claimed that true tails never have vertebrae), several human tails have also been found with cartilage and up to five, well-developed, articulating vertebrae. However, caudal vertebrae are not a necessary component of mammalian tails; contrary to what is frequently reported in the medical literature, there is at least one known example of a primate tail which lacks vertebrae, as found in the rudimentary two-inch-long tail of Macaca sylvanus (the "Barbary ape"). True human tails are rarely inherited, though several familial cases are known. As with other atavistic structures, human tails are most likely the result of either a somatic or germline mutation that reactivates an underlying developmental pathway which has been retained in the human genome."

http://daphne.palomar.edu/ccarpenter/ves...

http://www.jbjs.org.uk/cgi/reprint/62-B/...

Finally, I think your comment, "if we were apes then why don't apes turn into humans?" illustrates your general understanding of biology. Given this, I would say that you're not intellectually prepared to understand the answers to your own questions. Perhaps you should actually study some science before asking science questions? Just a thought...

Answer 4

You go to the emergency room after running a high fever and passing out. The doctor informs you that you have bacterial meningitis. He asks you if you believe in creation of evolution.

You ask why.

He says that if you believe in evolution he will give you the new antibiotics that will knock it right out of you, no problem. If you are a creationist, he will give you the old penicillin stand by which worked well 20 years ago, and let you take your chances on whether or not you have the new resistant strain and on being alive or dead in 48 hours.

How do you answer him?

Answer 5

First of all evolution isn't real. If it were that humans came from monkeys or why aren't we all furry? Why don't we swing from trees? You know a dragonfly was formed many geological periods before us. If evolution where real why is a dragon fly still a dragon fly? Even if evolution were true there would have to be a creator, because what would it evolve from if there wasn't a creator.  Don't believe evolution!! It is just an opinion. By the way, humans never had a tail.

Answer 6

You should try reading Darwin's On the Origin of Species. You obviously understand very little about evolution. Also, evolution belongs in the "Biology" section, not "Earth Sciences and Geology.

Don't knock it 'till you know it.

Answer 7

Actually frequently humans are born with tails.  Our Coccyx is a reminder we once had tails.  A human embryo and Chimp embryo are virtually the same for a long time in utereo.  I wonder what our appendix used to be? Hmmmmm?

If you go to the Bible, one sequence of creation(there are two sequences you know, in the Bible..which one do you believe) mimics the general sequence of evolution.

The big question is:   It just does not matter.  We are here with a spark of the Divine in us.  People who worry about this stuff remind me of a dog trying to p**p peach seeds, straining and grunting.  it just does not matter

Moses wrote for illiterate desert nomads

Answer 8

good point!!! i belive in both evolution and creationism

Answer 9

Well, if you observed a modern human embryo developing over the nine-month gestation period, there would be a time when it has a tail approximately one-sixth the body length.  Over time, as the body grows and changes, the tail disappears and the coccyx appears.

There have been documented cases where humans were born with a little something extra back there that was left over from fetal development.  Mostly this is just soft tissue, but rarely these will have vertebrae or cartilage in them.