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http://www.wrongplanet.net/asperger.html?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=212381#212381PeterM, I usually do not argue with men in skirts but I will make an exception because I like you so well.
Just because there are similarities between animals or plants doesn't meant that they evolved into or from one another. I could take a walk in the woods and compare blades of grasses and make up an elaborate explanation based on similarities that one type of grass was the original and it came into existance so many hundred billion years ago and then this type of grass evolved...etc.. (ever so slowly, mind you, because it takes millions of years for the nursery magic to happen) Things do not turn into other things. There is a far cry between evolution and adaptation. Creatures were created with adaptations to enable them to live in different environments or under certain circumstances. They used to say that our tailbone was a vestigal organ. Okay, then, let's have them surgically removed and see if we miss them.
Take, for instance, the skulls of different races of humans and compare them to monkeys. Are you going to say that the human skulls that are more similar to monkeys are less evolved than those that are more different than monkeys? Dogs? Different breeds of dogs, fish or humans do not prove evolution at all in the same way that different kinds of rocks don't, different colors of hair, etc. The only way that anyone can make this assertion is if they already believe in the THEORY of evolution and base all of their reasoning upon that BELIEF.
I haven't been paying much attention to the debate here, partly because I've been busy with other things, and partly because it's been kind of meandering around and not going anywhere interesting. Evolution is something that interests me though, but I don't think this is the best place for a debate about it.
Would you like to come on over to
Intensity? We can have a one-on-one debate there, no holds barred, no interruptions, no moderation, winner is voted on by the membership and bestows a custom title on the loser. It's the best chance you'll get for upholding your beliefs in public, and I bet you think I'd look good with 'Rabid Atheist' or something similar as my custom title.