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Don't you hate how movies depict evolution?

Zeze

Zeze

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Evolution is a result of natural selection. You kill a group of reptiles that can't jump. Repeat the process over many many years, you end up with birds.

In the movies, evolution means instant DNA mutation and cell growth on the spot.

"Oh my god! It's EVOLVING." Then cue a monster that healed from an injury then suddenly grows an armor for it.
 
Well to be fair, huge DNA mutations would be a form of evolution. It doesn't happen like that in real life, but if it were to happen in real life it would be evolution.
 
Wasn't that explained in Evolution that the dinosaur creatures were aliens. Thus if they are alien all known earthly science generally does not apply. They can make up any shit and we must believe that it could be possible.

Science Fiction notice the word FICTION 😉

"A firefighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky-but-sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving ever since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor. "
 
You're describing a phenomenon that doesn't really happen in real life. It sounds like it would be more accurate to describe it as "metamorphosing" or simply "changing" rather than "evolving," but really they're just using a known term instead of coming up with a brand new one (thus having to explain it) for use in that one work of fiction.
 
SamQuint said:
Wasn't that explained in Evolution that the dinosaur creatures were aliens. Thus if they are alien all known earthly science generally does not apply. They can make up any shit and we must believe it that it could be possible.

Science Fiction notice the word FICTION 😉

"A firefighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky-but-sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving ever since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor. "
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You may like Science FICTION, but I like SCIENCE Fiction. What Zeze is talking about would probably be more like PSEUDO science FICTION.
 
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Glitchny said:
Well you do realize that nothing in that movie is to be taken seriously?

I mean they kill the thing at the end with a firetruck full of Head & Shoulders shampoo...
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That's just one example. Bunch of movies/shows/cartoons use the term 'evolution' when something fucking does an adaptive mutation right before your eyes.
 
Most movies that depict super mutations are ridiculous sci-fi fantasy. Its rarely used in serious movies except Andromeda Strain and Outbreak.
 
Most movies I've seen depict evolution does so by showing amoebas turning to fish then lizards, dinosaurs, 4 legged mammals, primates. This is actually a decent gross generalization of what the fossil record shows.
 
zinfamous said:
technically, bacteria can evolve rather quickly.
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Bacteria divide very fast, so things happen quicker. A human generation is multiple decades, taking centuries to notice any change, and millions of years for significant changes. For bacteria . . . days?
 
Zeze said:
Evolution.
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love that movie. doesnt annoy me at all, since its a MOVIE. the fact that they killed the monsters with head and shoulders should have pissed you off way more.

tremors series was like that too, the worms got smarter each generation (movie) and "evolved" into a better species. while it may be a rudimentary representation, it isnt totally inaccurate. just a much shorter time span for the change.
 
hanoverphist said:
love that movie. doesnt annoy me at all, since its a MOVIE. the fact that they killed the monsters with head and shoulders should have pissed you off way more.

tremors series was like that too, the worms got smarter each generation (movie) and "evolved" into a better species. while it may be a rudimentary representation, it isnt totally inaccurate. just a much shorter time span for the change.
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I was going to respond until I noticed that you apparently actually watched the sequels of Tremors and are actually citing them.
 
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