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Size isn't everything. Evolution does not mean we will become giants. We didn't evolve from monkeys, only religious morons state that, we evolved from ape LIKE creatures. Your statement about the thousands of insects, birds and fishes is nice unless you question how come there aren't thousands of different types of elephants or horses. If god created Adam and made Eve from

Adam why is there such diversity in humans.

I think you've made a number of errors in your question(s).

Just because you can't tell much difference between yellow tail fish, doesn't mean that there aren't any.

Evolution is about adaptation and change, to match an environment. Perhaps the conditions that allowed the dinosaurs to evolve are no longer here. If not, then why should anything else evolve to match them?

For some reason, people who know nothing about evolution always seem to assume that it says that homo sapiens evolved out of monkeys. That's like always quoting something that an Elvis impersonator said, as something Elivis said. Supposedly, both humanity and monkeys both evolved out of a common ancestor, not each other.

And in answer to the last question, because, maybe it took billions of years to happen in the first place? How do you know that single cells haven't been created (by accident, say), but have just been missed or overlooked?

You have several questions here.

1. If we were raising kids as big as dinosaurs we could never feed them. Just look at what a 16 year old does to your food budget.

2. None of the other creatures really want to look like us, and they think we smell funny too.

3. Most of them are smart enough to keep what they know secret. Remember it is a war for control of the planet plus simple survival, and loose lips sink ships. Look at the success of the common Cockroach which refused to evolve any lips at all.

4.The fish seem to be able to tell themselves apart just fine. At least enough to tell the boys from the girls.

If you think you can do better, you need to get out a bit more, especially downtown New York on a busy weekend.

5. Actually no. monkeys are a different order. We evolved from the same common ancestors as apes and the truth is you might have more genetic similarity to some Chimps than to quite a few different Humans.(that is not meant as an insult, just a simple fact.)

we are not giants because there is less oxygen in the atmosphere today than there was millions of years ago. And we do create life out of chemical elements, mixed with biological elements, sheep, cows, more recently stem cells, and in the near future we have the possibility of creating replacement body parts. We did not come from monkeys...we came from a species related to monkeys in the same way that gorillas and apes did, we simply evolved further due to different chemical, organic, and environmental reasons. And we don't look alike as other animals do because we have a larger number of chromosomes and a more complex DNA strand, resulting in more differentiations in our appearance and sexuality. One could argue that a frog is more advanced than us, simply on the idea that they can asexually reproduce and even change sexes.

Dinosaurs did not stay a million years in the past, they lived around 60 million years in the past. And we've paintings of them because of the fact of fossils help us recreate what the dinosaurs might have acknowledged like. Paleontologists can seem on the form of bones in a dinosaur and understand the form, all of us understand they had be camouflage colored too. that's impressive the failings technology can acheive at present.

You question is so desperately ignorant, I just don't know where to start. For example, you say there are only "a few" species of gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys. Are you insane? Did you opt to watch Sesame Street when David Attenborough was on the tv? There are hundreds, even thousands of primate species. There are fewer great ape species, but even so there are many.

Going by your crazy logic, the fact that there are only two species of elephant disproves evolution.

Sheesh.

If you read enough you will know the answer. My friend there are alot of theories about our existence. Its a battle between Creation and Evolution. Some of these these theories debatable, some are way too outrageous. Its upto you which theory you should accept. If you believe you came from monkeys then so be it. If you believe you are created by God, again, so be it.

Rather than spending so much time researching on this stuff, y dont you research on stuff that will help mankind minimize its its dependencies on fossil fuel. hehehehe

Well, the more you weigh the more energy you burn. The reason we are comparitively small is because its a dam efficient way of being, we burn a very small amount of energy to get a lot done. We are very smart compared to every other creature on the planet, so we didnt NEED to be big, and therefore natural selection made us smaller to conserve energy.

I am perfectly content believing we came from primates. In fact, it sort of makes me feel better. It shows that no matter how bad mankind looks, we used to be poop throwing monkeys, so we have improved somehow.

Ouzibilliahi Mina Shytan Al Rajeem

Bisimillah Al Rahman Al Raheem

As Salam Alaikum

Peace unto you All inshAllah Tahala

Well there is oxygen to worry about, and growth in what is here, and well no one was thanking Allah so down they go.

Salam

Again, we hear from one of the intellectual inheritors of Moronicus... least respected of the ancient Greek philosophers.

It's obvious that you are only familiar with the creationist 'comic book' version of evolution... and you don't know how science works. You see... it is in the commercial and political interests of your religious puppet-masters to keep you ignorant. Knowledge is the enemy of religion... so they keep you stoked up on 'belief'... the ILLUSION of knowledge.

Science does not 'prove' things. 'Proof' is for mathematicians, coin collectors and distillers of alcoholic beverages. Proof in science is applicable only in the 'negative' sense... i.e., hypotheses and theories must be 'falsifiable'. When scientists do experiments (to validate 'predicted' results), they are NOT trying to 'prove' they are RIGHT... they are trying to FIND OUT if they're WRONG. NOT being wrong simply builds confidence that one is on the right track... it 'proves' nothing.

First of all, the 'theory of evolution' has absolutely NOTHING to do with the 'origins' of life. And evolution is not a matter of 'belief'. I keep reading in here that "... evolution is just a theory... not a fact." That, as it turns out, is true... although the word 'just' is inappropriate, and misleading... and it indicates that people just don't understand what a scientific theory is; they seem to think that a theory is just an 'idea'. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Here are some important things to know...

* DNA DOES NOT evolve... it experiences mutations.

* Organisms DO NOT evolve. Organisms are essentially the 'proxies' for altered DNA, playing out the 'game' of survival/procreation in 'meat space'. DNA whose proxy organisms manage to procreate get to move on to the next round... kind of like Jeopardy.

* It is the genetic makeup of POPULATIONS of organisms (the 'gene pool') that 'evolves' (changes, over time).

In science, 'theories' occupy a higher level of importance than mere 'facts'... theories EXPLAIN facts. The Theory of Evolution provides an explanatory framework for the OBSERVED FACT that the genetic makeup of populations of organisms changes over time (evolves). The theory identifies two (2) mechanisms which account for such changes:

** Genetic drift... statistical variations in allele frequency within a local population, over time.

** Natural selection... the non-random replication of randomly varying replicators.

There may be OTHER mechanisms in play which have not yet been identified and accounted for, and various scientists continue to quibble about that... but NONE of what I have described above is in dispute within the scientific community. Claims to the contrary by creationists are nothing more than a red herring, designed to bamboozle their scientifically-ignorant constituency.

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