Posted by Linjun Xu on August 04, 1998 at 12:49:55:
In Reply to: Tic Toc---moving right along posted by MEYER on August 04, 1998 at 11:08:49:
: You say you don't understand it, yet you believe it? God to this site for an interpretaion that we are no longer evolving.
Yes, because I do not fully understand it, that is why I only say I believe it, I do not say it is a proved fact. So I suppose you do not believe anything that you do not understand, right? Do you understand how every parts of your computer works? Do you understand the source code of netscape in C++? Do you understand how those C++ code is transformed into assembly code? Do you really understand everything that you use and touch in daily life, such as how a car is manufacted, painted, and repaired?
One more simple example. 1 + 1 = 2 has not been proved yet. The closest proof is 1 + 2 = 3. Do you understand why 1+1=2 ? Or do you understand the proof of 1+2=3 ? Do you believe 1+1=2?
: I get the impression that the theory you believe holds that evolution stops, or only happens at certain intervals. Evolution "change in allele frequency over time" is a process that occurs every second of every day. Time and evolution is almost the same thing, the only difference is we can physically see evolution happening, but time is only seen in how we imagine it.
There is an interesting example. A bottle with one germ in it. The germ reproduces itself once per second, when the bottle is full, all the germs will die. Question is when the bottle is half full? The answer is just one second before they all die. So all the germs will die in the last second, but it could take them 1 month or 1 year to make the bottle full. When one kind of animal(germ) is no longer suitable for the world(bottle), they will die out extremely fast, that is where the interval
came from. But the cause of death could take millions of years to build. Like the germs, they died because they failed to control their population. It looks like that they extinct in only one second, but actually their extinct can be traced back to the first germ in the bottle.
: I am a creationist, but evolution is nature. I just happen to believe evolutionists have made more of it than is observed. Such as our supposedly common ancestor with the apes.
So you are a creationist, I can only say that right now, evolution havn't been proved just like 1+1=2. In ancient time, only sailors believe that earth is round, but it can never ever be proved without the invetion of telescope. We are like the sailors in ancient time, and you can just keep thinking that the earth is flat until the invention of telescope.