It's quite evident that living organisms evolve. We/they adapt for survival, but it's a joke to use that as proof that all living creatures evolved from simple cell organisms in a primordial soup.
Like the member that you are supporting in this thread, you are just plain wrong. The same biological laws that govern single-cell organisms also govern human beings--and all life in between.
It is interesting that you referenced the primordial soup. Although the primordial soup is the current best theory of how life on this planet got its start, evolution is not contingent on the primordial soup. Neither does the notion of a primordial soup necessitate evolution. The fact is that 98% of all life on Earth never evolved to state as complex as viruses. Dry rocks are teaming with very simple life forms, no soup involved.
Evolution is the process by which organisms change from one form to another. It does not dictate a starting point. It does not specify an end point.
It's quite evident that living organisms evolve. We/they adapt for survival, but it's a joke to use that as proof that all living creatures evolved from simple cell organisms in a primordial soup.
That is actually not how evolution works. We do not adapt. Evolution works through random mutations that make organisms with that mutation more adapted. Previous organisms without that mutation eventually die out. It is purely random. Imagine that a global catastrophe meant that people with a hereditary mutational condition are more likely to live than people without that condition. Over only very few generations, the world would be mostly populated by people with that mutation (indeed, people without the mutation may not exist at all any more). 20,000 years from now, we, who do not have that mutation, may be considered a different species.
It can be observed today with bacteria. If you do not take your penicillin to the end, some of the bacteria, the stronger ones, survive. These will multiply among themselves, and will give offspring to bacteria with different strengths against penicillin, along a distribution curve. Meaning that at the long tail of the distribution curve, bacteria will be born that is even stronger than the parent bacteria. This cycle repeats itself everytime someone is infected by that bacteria. Eventually, bacteria will be so strong, that they cannot be killed by penicillin.
Mathematically, it has been calculated, that today's diversity can very well have come from the soup. .
That does not make life any less wondrous, indeed, it makes me even more religious as all life is connected and all life is wonderful, God is in all of us.
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It is interesting that you referenced the primordial soup. Although the primordial soup is the current best theory of how life on this planet got its start, evolution is not contingent on the primordial soup. Neither does the notion of a primordial soup necessitate evolution. The fact is that 98% of all life on Earth never evolved to state as complex as viruses. Dry rocks are teaming with very simple life forms, no soup involved.
Evolution is the process by which organisms change from one form to another. It does not dictate a starting point. It does not specify an end point.
That is actually not how evolution works. We do not adapt. Evolution works through random mutations that make organisms with that mutation more adapted. Previous organisms without that mutation eventually die out. It is purely random. Imagine that a global catastrophe meant that people with a hereditary mutational condition are more likely to live than people without that condition. Over only very few generations, the world would be mostly populated by people with that mutation (indeed, people without the mutation may not exist at all any more). 20,000 years from now, we, who do not have that mutation, may be considered a different species.
It can be observed today with bacteria. If you do not take your penicillin to the end, some of the bacteria, the stronger ones, survive. These will multiply among themselves, and will give offspring to bacteria with different strengths against penicillin, along a distribution curve. Meaning that at the long tail of the distribution curve, bacteria will be born that is even stronger than the parent bacteria. This cycle repeats itself everytime someone is infected by that bacteria. Eventually, bacteria will be so strong, that they cannot be killed by penicillin.
Mathematically, it has been calculated, that today's diversity can very well have come from the soup. .
That does not make life any less wondrous, indeed, it makes me even more religious as all life is connected and all life is wonderful, God is in all of us.