jwu said:
You still didn't answer my question; about how many mutations that conicidently all happened to ape offsrping, would there have had to have been to create a human being?
Humans accumulated about 30 million different base pairs since the last common ancestor with contemporary apes. So that's 30 million mutations at most. Less in case of mutations which affect multiple base pairs.
[quote:d4ae4]And if so many mutations supposedly happened, why did they suddenly stop at the beginning of recorded history when there were witnesses?
They did not stop happening!
You have about 100-150 base pairs that are different than those of your parents. Same about me and any other human. And these mutations do something.
You're just expecting too much to happen in a short timespan. The 5000 years of recorded history are nothing compared to the 5 million years sinced the last common ancestor with today's apes. By the time when history began the humans already had gone through
99.9% of the change from that last common ancestor to what we are today.
The timing for the cessation of these mutations couldn't have been more perfect then could they?
As mentioned, they did not cease.
o you think that timing was planned by apes or that the coincidence is as astounding as the number of mutations that had to happen for an ape to turn into a human being?
There is absolutely nothing astounding about it. DNA replication is imperfect,
mutations are inevitable. These mutations just happen to have made us what we are today. If different mutations had happened, then we wouldn't exist as we do today. We'd either be somewhat different, or no human civilization would have come up at all.
Your problem is that you're presupposing that evolution had humans in mind as a goal. It didn't. But something had to evolve, and that happened to be us.
What's difficult is that this theory contradicts the reality of what apes and humans breed.
Not at all. The reality is that any offspring is not a precise copy of its parents, but has mutations.
Anyone can claim anything happened before there were any witnesses.
There are other evidences. Do you know what ERVs are?
Why the human 23rd chromosome looks like exactly like two chromosomes of other apes fused together, including telomeres (which indicate the end of a chromosome) in the middle of it?
Each animals breeds its own kind
Evolution does not predict anything else. Offspring will always belong to the same species as its parents.
Once again,the truth can only be found in reality, my friend, not in the imagination.
Indeed...and that reality confirms evolution.[/quote:d4ae4]
30 million mutations? :o What are the odds that each generation of offspring would happen to mutate 30 million times? :o They're far mor astronomical than anything in the bible! Sorry, but you make the theory of evolution sound even more impossible.
They didn't stop happening? Sorry, but apes still look pretty much the same that they have since the beginning of recorded history. They certainly haven't exhibited the vast changes that turned them into human beings!! Sorry, but you're not fooling me, only yourself.
So you're saying that animals can breed offspring that turn into human beings. Is that correct? :o Then why haven't dogs bred offspring that turn into human beings. Just luck? Why haven't humans bred offspring with wings? Why are we still only breeding humans?
Sorry, but asking sane people to believe that the biggest evolution in history happened when apes turned into human beings (only some apes, because the rest are still around today) is called science fiction. it has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with the imagination. But you can give credit to apes for everything good in your if you like. The only problem is that they are still in the jungle or in zoos where man put them and cannot understand you. So you have no one to thank.