Evolution?

While I believe in evolution, it's called a theory for a reason. It's not in any way shape or form a fact.

I don't believe in evolution.

This is just my opinion, but if you think the Earth is only a few thousand years old, you're intelligence-impaired. Similar if you disbelieve in evolution..

Where's that pic of someone saying evolution can't be real because they saw the monkies in a zoo, and they didn't evolve into people..

While I believe in evolution, it's called a theory for a reason. It's not in any way shape or form a fact.

I don't care to debate. I just wanted to stop by and toss a question at you ever so educated people.

If everyone came from the same pool of DNA/Oooze/whatever, where did the sexes come from? How did two completely different organisms evolve from the same thing and need each other to reproduce?

I'll just leave it at that. No need for detail because Im sure someone will come along and leave me a paragraph to read regardless of the level of detail I put into this.

A quick and simple google search popped up a few discussions on your question:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=13149

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome

http://www.amazon.com/evolutionists-explain-evolution-male-female/forum/Fx1B7ZZXEGB1Y39/TxI5SBN4TDIWGX/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=055277524X

None of these are scholarly sources, but if you truly felt the need you could find scholarly sources yourself.

You mean the other way around lol.

Evolution (also known as biological or organic evolution) is the change over time in one or more inherited traits found in populations of organisms.[1] Inherited traits are particular distinguishing characteristics, including anatomical, biochemical or behavioural characteristics, that are passed on from one generation to the next.

ev·o·lu·tion
–noun
any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.

QFT. That was so perfectly said by Tiger, I had to quote that.

Oh joy, reading material. No thanks. I didn't say I felt the need just tossing another topic out there. kthnxbye

How come we're not immune to STDs tho?

I was raised as a creationist and believed in it for many years. When my high school forced my parents to allow my sister and I to take a basic biology class, we learned new things. Like evolution.

Now, I've never read the book and I'm not going to pretend to know everything about the theory, because I simply don't. But here's how my old biology teacher explained it to me: Suppose a million years ago, you had two giraffes. Suppose one of the giraffes had a shorter neck, and one had a mutation-- a longer neck. Since the food that giraffes eat is higher off the ground, the longer-necked giraffe is the one who will survive longest-- or if the food giraffes ate back then was low to the ground, but scarce, same thing. The short-necked giraffe won't be able to get as much food and will therefore be weaker. Since the long-neck giraffe survived longer, he impregnated more female giraffes than the short-necked giraffe. Since the long-neck giraffe's offspring were more likely to also be long-necked, and since they in turn survived longer than their short-necked peers, they spread more long-necked genes. Eventually, only the long-necked giraffes were left. This is called Survival of the Fittest, and over thousands of years, it's called evolution.

That makes sense to me. It made much more sense than what I was originally taught, and it has much more supporting evidence than what I was originally taught. I believe the earth is old, and that evolution happened and is still happening. (But I probably will still never read the book. <.< >.>)

But just to get technicalities out the way, I completely believe in evolution but I do not believe that one species can come from another.

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics). One of the most useful properties of scientific theories is that they can be used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed.

No one knows how old the Earth is.

While I believe in evolution, it's called a theory for a reason. It's not in any way shape or form a fact.

If everyone came from the same pool of DNA/Oooze/whatever, where did the sexes come from?

I am a creationist.

QFT. That was so perfectly said by Tiger, I had to quote that.

People create theories for things they do not understand, but that still does not make it fact or true regardless of how much emphasis you imply on the subject.

Please don't imply I'm an idiot, Jaerik.

I place respect in my posts above all and I would appreciate the same from others.