Evolution does explain the origin of human beings!

[Stop_the_War]

:kick:

[dutchdemocrat]

1. Oh

But Eve being popped from one of Adam's ribs...

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. kick

[whistle]

3. But not the creation of life, only how long ago life began and the...

...forms life has taken on and I suppose the interrelationship of all life on this planet. I can accept all of those explanations and still be very comfortable with a creator of the universe and even a living God within all of us now. I have no conflict with that.

[commander bunnypants]

4. what about the Simian in Chief

Evolution does not explain bush

CB

[Dr.Phool]

9. No, that's drugs and alcohol.

It can go haywire. Hunter Thompson used them all and he was brilliant.

I guess that doesn't explain the chimp either.

[Walt Starr]

5. And does a damn good job of it, too

I might add.

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. OK, OK, I'll admit it. I started the human species and I did.............

make some mistakes. That little freep gene did slip by when I was figuring out what to do with all those dam big dinosaurs I created. Not my finest moment. Geez, that freep gene, how was I to even know how it would mutate with the "live in houses on wheels, have lots of ignorant offspring and think only about myself" gene.
Hey, we all make mistakes from time to time.

[sans qualia]

7. That may be true

I think it kinda depends on the role phenomenal experience plays in human behavior. If it's possible to have a being that walks and talks and does everything just like a human does but does so like a robot, with no subjective experience or sensation, then the reason why we do have phenomenal experience probably can't be explained by evolution. But if it's not possible, then phenomenal experience is probably an adaptive trait, and so evolution could account for its proliferation, if not its origins.

[stray cat]

8. It is a good explanation but even it falls short of proof.

[Walt Starr]

10. There is no proof

There is only evidence to support the presented case. There is never proof.

Now as far as Intelligent Design goes, there isn't even evidence to support the presented case that an Intelligence had to design anything, let alone evidence to support the existance of that alleged intelligence!

[ashmanonar]

11. yep.

it doesn't explain perfectly, but it's the best theory out there. (i don't count any of the religious ideas as theories...since they're dogma)

there are hitches when you reach the genetic level or molecular level: case in point, the fertilized egg of a human contains 100,000 genes. these genes must turn on and off in a peculiar sequence for a human to grow properly and be born, along with other circumstances. the chance that the right sequence of genes will activate is one of those pie in the sky stats, that is only equaled by the chance of bush's "win" on november 2nd.

there's another concern: how did single-celled life develop into multi celled? it started single celled, and stayed that way for 3 billion years, according to the fossil record. only then did they develop and begin to evolve into multi-celled organisms, then blastopods, etc etc. until they reached the current state of affairs (600 million years, some hold the time period to be)

how can the 3 billion year hiatus on evolution be explained?