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DrJones*

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Message 33 of 111 (432292)
11-05-2007 3:08 AM

Reply to: Message 32 by Beretta
11-05-2007 2:41 AM

Up until the 1800's the generally held belief was that the sedimentary rock layers right across the earth represented the record of mass death from Noah's flood.

And it was Christian geologists trying to prove this idea who finally had to conclude that it was false.

As a matter of interest, if evolution happened and not intelligent creation according to a plan then why do all earth's creatures have 2 eyes.

Well this is just nonsense. Some creatures have no eyes, some have more than 2. Have you ever heard of spiders?, they (usually) have 8 eyes.

But if two eyes are better than one, why stop there -why not 7 or 8?

Evolution is not about being The Best, it's about being good enough. If there are no enviromental factors that would make it advantageous to have more than two eyes then there is no reason that 2 eyed organisms would be selected against.

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Message 38 of 111 (432300)
11-05-2007 3:39 AM

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11-05-2007 3:26 AM

Re: Spiders!

how did nature know that we needed to get two eyes rather than one

Nature knows nothing, nature is not a sentient entity. At some point in the evolution of some animals 2 eyes became more advantageous than 1.

I don't understand how we could have lost that tail

Random mutation and natural selection.

why didn't we naturally mutate a few more and those 4-eyed things get selected.

Because there were no enviromental factors selecting out non-4 eyed humans.

I think we still need to run up trees to escape our enemies and a tail could be useful there

Except humans have big juicy delicious brains that allow us to create and use technology to fight, scare off or avoid our enemies.

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Message 41 of 111 (432306)
11-05-2007 4:02 AM

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11-05-2007 3:59 AM

Re: evidence and assertions

I know more than enough biology

Making the claim that all creatures have 2 eyes demonstrates that you know jack shit about biology.

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