Can Someone Explain Evolution to Me?

[Mai72]

I was watching a video on YouTube about evolution. It was about how we first evolved from fish. So, it seems that Darwin was mistaken. Our ancestors aren't monkeys, but fish?

1) My question is is this actual fact? Did we evolve from fish?
2) Was Darwin wrong? Why do so many people dislike his theory on how we got here?
3) Are there any cons to evolution that you can think of?

Here is the video.

 

[nakedfrog]

Why not both?

 

[dank69]

Yeah Darwin wasn't wrong, you are talking about two different phases of our evolution.

 

[Ichinisan]

Fish, monkey, human

 

[IronWing]

Some of us evolved from the fish, some from the chips.

 

[sandorski]

This should help

 

[Mai72]

This should help

Thanks. I'm checking this out.

 

[zinfamous]

As a Biologist I can sum it up thus:

It was all going swell until humanity reached the ~50s.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Some of us evolved from the fish, some from the chips.

LOL, there is definitely some potato quality thinking out there.

 

[zinfamous]

I was watching a video on YouTube about evolution. It was about how we first evolved from fish. So, it seems that Darwin was mistaken. Our ancestors aren't monkeys, but fish?

1) My question is is this actual fact? Did we evolve from fish?
2) Was Darwin wrong? Why do so many people dislike his theory on how we got here?
3) Are there any cons to evolution that you can think of?

Here is the video.

First off: Darwin never argued that our ancestors were "monkeys"


Maybe you should read the literature that relates to your questions instead of relying on youtube crazy people.

 

[VirtualLarry]

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[zinfamous]

Evolution (Edit: As an explanation for Creation) is a huge farce.

Study higher-level (meta-) programming, and pattern-design languages.

If Evolution were true, it would basically be like, hey, I've never seen a Windows-based PC before, so my theory on how "Word" and "Excel" "Evolved", was because this executable file called "Notepad.exe" with a filesystem date five years prior, must have undergone cloning and HDD bit-rot, to "evolve" to become Word and Excel.

To us technologists, the whole idea is absolutely ludicrous. Yet to an "Evolutionary Biologist", this is somehow... dogma???

LOL!!!!

More Biologists should study computer-science. The idea that we live in a computationally-oriented universe should not be discarded. I believe that, fundimentally, Biology IS a branch of Computer Science.

wut.

also, lol that you seem to think Bioinformatics isn't a thing.

not sure if your post is serious or not.

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

I was watching a video on YouTube about evolution. It was about how we first evolved from fish. So, it seems that Darwin was mistaken. Our ancestors aren't monkeys, but fish?

Our ancestors were fish before they were monkeys. There's about a billion steps in there you're missing. And technically, our ancestors were not monkeys. Monkeys and humans had a common ancestor that was somewhere in between monkeys and humans. Their evolution went one way and made them more monkey-like and ours went the other way and made us less monkeylike. Well, some of us anyway.

 

[sdifox]

Evolution (Edit: As an explanation for Creation) is a huge farce.

Study higher-level (meta-) programming, and pattern-design languages.

If Evolution were true, it would basically be like, hey, I've never seen a Windows-based PC before, so my theory on how "Word" and "Excel" "Evolved", was because this executable file called "Notepad.exe" with a filesystem date five years prior, must have undergone cloning and HDD bit-rot, to "evolve" to become Word and Excel.

To us technologists, the whole idea is absolutely ludicrous. Yet to an "Evolutionary Biologist", this is somehow... dogma???

LOL!!!!

More Biologists should study computer-science. The idea that we live in a computationally-oriented universe should not be discarded. I believe that, fundimentally, Biology IS a branch of Computer Science.

Ease off on Mountain Dew. Antibiotic resistance is real, and that proves evolution.

 

[IronWing]

Ease off on Mountain Dew. Antibiotic resistance is real, and that proves evolution.

The hackers are getting more clever.

 

[nakedfrog]

Evolution (Edit: As an explanation for Creation) is a huge farce.

Hm, can you expound on this "as an explanation for Creation" bit?

 

[BudAshes]

Evolution (Edit: As an explanation for Creation) is a huge farce.

Study higher-level (meta-) programming, and pattern-design languages.

If Evolution were true, it would basically be like, hey, I've never seen a Windows-based PC before, so my theory on how "Word" and "Excel" "Evolved", was because this executable file called "Notepad.exe" with a filesystem date five years prior, must have undergone cloning and HDD bit-rot, to "evolve" to become Word and Excel.

To us technologists, the whole idea is absolutely ludicrous. Yet to an "Evolutionary Biologist", this is somehow... dogma???

LOL!!!!

More Biologists should study computer-science. The idea that we live in a computationally-oriented universe should not be discarded. I believe that, fundimentally, Biology IS a branch of Computer Science.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Thanks. I'm checking this out.

We expect a full report afterwards.

 

[BoomerD]

Simplest explanation...shit happens, things change.

 

[VirtualLarry]

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[nakedfrog]

As an explanation for Creation? Where did Mt. Dew come from? Where did anti-biotics come from? Where did the bacteria that obtained the resistance come from? Surely, they must have all "just popped into being... due to evolution". POP goes the Weasel. I guess it all makes sense now.

Yep. Mt. Dew evolved. By popping into being.
Take a step back and look at what you're saying...

 

[sandorski]

As an explanation for Creation? Where did Mt. Dew come from? Where did anti-biotics come from? Where did the bacteria that obtained the resistance come from? Surely, they must have all "just popped into being... due to evolution". POP goes the Weasel. I guess it all makes sense now.

Let's look at this another way. In terms of Cosmic time-scales, the amount of time that this flying rock we're all on, has been Habitable towards carbon-based life forms, is infintesimally-small, in Cosmic time-scales. Yet, we have this diverse life.

I compare this to encryption, and programming by "random opcodes". eg., the "Infinite Monkeys" theorem of programming.

We *engineer* encryption, such that, given the current state-of-the-art of computational ability, it would EXCEED THE HEAT-DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE, TO BE ABLE TO BRUTE-FORCE IT.

Yet, Evolutionary Biologists, seem to think that we were "Created" via some sort of Infinite Monkeys-type theorem of biology, yet, given the small window-of-opportunity of this life-giving rock, I think it seems infeasible, if that were the "only" mechanism at work.

No.

 

[soulcougher73]

Evolution is pretty much a scientific fact today. Have you never been to school before? Do they not teach this anymore?

 

[Sgt. York]

Evolution is a theory. Period.

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

Evolution is a theory. Period.

Evolution is a theory like gravity is a theory or electricity is a theory.

Evolution is a fact. You're just completely clueless on the different ways that science and religion use the word "theory".

In religion, theory = "completely batshit insane crap with absolutely no basis in reality and no supporting evidence that we want to believe because it gives us a divine right to do what we're going to do anyway"

In science, theory = "a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation"

At least learn that much about science. Trying to use the word "theory" as a pejorative term in the context of science just proves the fact that you're a complete moron.