Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?
Im sorry Psych, but you obviously haven’t studied genetics, or your intentionally ignoring it. This claim that just because species dont diverge into seperate species in our life times is an old tired argument.
Like I said before, differentiation is born through mutations, mutations help us to adapt and change.
An organism may not change into a seperate species within your lifetime, but that doesnt change the FACT that mutations occur at a realtively constant rate. Given enough mutaton, any species, if that mutation allows it to sruvive, will over time produce enough differentiation in its genome, to constitute a completely different species.
Your examples of Human changing skin color is an example of this. The reason why we as Humans are still one species is because of the fact that we were never separated long enough as a species to differentiate to the extent required to produce a new species. That isnt to say however that other species havent diverged. Look at the Cat family, look at the Elephants. etc etc.
The Human eye may not have worked at some time. Its entirely plausible that our ancestors used a different mechanism to navigate. Its also highly plausible that the organ was used for a completely different purpose and gradually evolved to perform its current task. We have many superfluous anatomical features, we know that aspects of our anatomy can gain, lose, or change functions.
The Human eye has had MILLIONS of years to evolve as its common to just about all species, so its not unimaginable that it would be as comlicated as it is given the amount of times its taken to achieve thise complexity.
Evolution as stated relies on the understanding that with enough mutation over a constant rate species with diverge.
Its inevitable. Natural selection is only a mechanism through which nature filters out those adaptations that are beneficial from those that are not. But the validity of evolution does not rest on Natural selection, it relies on the basic understanding that mutations produce change. Its as inevitable.
It amazes me how you can acknowledge that mutation do produce differentiation, but how that cant equate to evolution producing new species from existing ones is beyond me. Its fact as much as its a fact that given enough snow, your car will be buried.