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Originally Posted by John Murphy
I believe evolution is a fraud otherwise why do we not see it happening today. If we are related to the primates why are they not getting smarter like us. In all the time we have known of the primates existence they have stayed the same, those that have mastered the use of simple tools still use those tools they did not adapt them or make them better. In the time since we have known of monkeys and gorrilas we have invented many new things, sky scrapers, the car, loads of stuff. Yet they are still sniffing each others bottoms and eating the fleas from each other. They have learned nothing, just like every other animal and humans are always getting smarter and learning new things adapting, researching, implementing different techniques to all different things.
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We do see evolution happening today. If we didn't, there wouldn't be a different cold virus every single year.
The first rule of evolution, is that evolution DOES NOT mean that a species will necessarily get more complex, or more intelligent in the process. Many times, evolution leads to a species becoming less complex, and less intelligent in order to survive in a certain habitat.
Second rule of evolution, we live on a bacteria planet. Nearly every "life" on earth is a bacteria. We see evolution occurring among them at a very rapid pace.
Third rule, Humans and other higher life forms are a tiny tiny minority on life on this planet, and because of complexity, evolve much slower, in the order of millions of years. We are not going to see a Chimp turn into a Homo Erectus in less than a multi-million year span, thus we cannot observe it in real time, we can only observe the fossil evidence that it did occur.
Fourth rule, and perhaps the most telling: DNA analysis has PROVEN a definite genetic link among several species. Using DNA evidence we can construct "family trees" if you will that show which species have direct common ancestors, where the splits occurred, etc. We share more DNA with apes than we do Canines, and House Cats share more DNA with Tigers than do Dogs. DNA evidence provides us a conclusive link, that is impossible to deny.
Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution covers why evolution happened, and how evolution happens.