The catastrophic acts of nature (or god, if you will) definitely reset things. You might think that Evolution would dictate humans arise and dominate (are still here). To me, that makes no sense at all. Evolution kicks in once the board is reset, so to speak. The big difference is that this act of nature has wiped out the vast majority of predators who would have eaten most of the human precursor species.
So, perhaps we do need to add a requirement to the list that Earth provides us, making it most unique. I sort of beat about it in the lead off as quoted above, but Denny hit on it directly. The range of life on earth is compatible for all life, not dominated by an overwhelming predictor species. (Added to the list) Although by the shear numbers, human maybe approaching this status.
Show me a beneficial "mutation". One observed in nature, not just theorized. If evolution holds true. How is there more than 1 species? Why sex? At some point a female and male had to mutate reproductive organs at the same time. It's a mathematical impossibility.
Which ever ones are best adapted to eeking out a living in the new environment? Old niches destroyed, new ones created, etc. Look at a massive catastrophic disturbance like Mt. St. Helen's -- totally denuded, but left alone life returns. Maybe not exactly as it was before, but it comes back. On a global scale disaster you get massive die-offs and a few Hardy survivors make it, reproduce, mutate and start the whole damned cycle over again.
Wolves, Cougars, Bear, Lions and many predators today could wipe out a lot of people....steel and fire were sort of game changers...even for the Sabre Tooth tiger and Wooly Mammoth...some might lump acts of nature in with evolution...part of the chain of events....even a meteorite shower is part of the chain of events...just like the big bang started the primordial soup of life in some views....chicken...egg..the new predator man needs to fear is invisible to the naked eye...the airborne virus
Look at the hemoglobin in people who are native Nepalese compared to the rest of the world. It's bonds an extra oxygen molecule.
If evolution holds true. Why vaginas? I mean. You can watch an episode of the view and learn quickly that the vagina is a non beneficial mutation. It should have never been passed. Yet every species has one. What did the first vagina offer in the means of survival that allowed it to grab hold and continue in all other species? And why is the vagina currently trying to grow on the hats of feminists? What beneficial evolutionary purpose does that serve?
interesting...didn't know that...I knew the indigenous divers in Hokaido in Japan had enormous lungs and could stay under water without oxygen for longer than was thought possible
Not every mutation is beneficial or detrimental. If we are created being made in God's image then why the hell do we eat, drink and breathe out of the same hole? That's shitty design.
I sort of view a boat design with the least holes in the hull the better design. The least likely for something to go wrong. But trying to do with less than two is a shitty design.
I'm honestly not understanding what you mean. My contention is God could've very well started the big bang, I just don't believe it. But the fact of the matter is, none of us know nor will know until we die. So until then I will not serve a God who believes slaves should be obedient to their masters. If the slave and the master pray to the same God, who gets their prayer answered?
>>> Fair question. But I doubt we will know. We have no slaves to ask, nor can we be sure God would know the difference. I never ask him for anything. I do sometime thank him, in my way.
1 john 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
