what makes you think the level of understanding is differnet or that much more evolved?
just because you can pick a booger and contemplate the awesomeness of said booger makes you a deeper thinker or more complex?
how much time do you devote to the complexity of smells in your front lawn? do you even have the brain power to comprehend such a large volume of data?
just because your focus is different doesnt it mean it is larger.
get over your arrogance and stop blaming god for your inabilities. he doesnt give a shit about you.

 

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The usual right wing thread. OMG!!! Things can't really be complicated, because I can't understand complicated. Therefore, anything too complicated for me to understand in 10 seconds has to be due to God. I know this is true because all the liberal arguments are called "theories" Heh...theories? That means it's made up by those elitists who actually spent years and decades studying that stuff. They get paid to do so, so, that proves anything they say is a biased lie.

 

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There are possibilities, as evidenced from sites like this -> http://www.lifesorigin.com/ ; the issue is choosing one that matches your personal degree of 'belief'.


Me, I could care less where we came from - I am more concerned with where the teeming masses are heading, and it seems to be down the drain.

 

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Amen Doc

 

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Under what definition are they immortal? Using the right definition us humans are immortal too. Every single one of us has grown out of living cells that were once a part of our parents body. The chain of life has never been interrupted. Without looking it up that's probably similar to the kind of immortality that jellyfish enjoys.





Animals living in the same environment can adopt similar features without one of them inheriting those features from the other.





Oh come on that one is just dumb.





Can you give an example? Btw just because some animal is being hunted by predators doesn't mean the selective pressure is big enough to cause major changes.





The question is worded in a way that almost implies purpose. That's not how evolution works. Let's take a closer look.

The species we talk about is a predator. They hunt, kill and eat. (Not necessarily in that order.) And they have to mate. Often these animals are small and relatively simple. So their prey would be anything that moves and that is of a certain size. Like for example their own "partner". What happens when they eat their partner before they can mate? No procreation. This is some major selective pressure. So there will be ways in which they can avoid that. The ones who didn't died out. Maybe a certain rhythm in their movement. Maybe some pheromones. Whatever, the only thing that matters is that it works. They successfully mate. After this selective pressure no longer applies. So when the female eats the male there is no disadvantage for their offspring. In fact since it's a fairly good and nourishing meal for the mother it will likely give their offspring a little boost. That would act as pressure towards eating the male.





Only if you're lacking a decent understanding of it.

 

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Evolution doesn't select for intelligence, it selects for survival. Brains are very expensive calorie-wise so growing a brain bigger than the species needs is usually negatively selected against. We just got lucky that our brains got just big enough to be able to master fire which them provided lots of extra calories allowing a lot more brain growth.

And humans weren't the only smart species produced by evolution. There are others like Neanderthans and Homo floresiensis.

 

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Americans grow the biggest brains!

 

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