Science, Creation & EvolutionMorality and evolutionismSure, I'll quote your entire post, just so we all know what the question was:
I put the most important bit in bold letters. First of all, let's point out a few things: Humour me and imaging that the human species is indeed another species of animal. What kind would we be? Here is a short list: - We are primates (we evolved from monkeys) - We are social animals (we live in groups) - We are omnivorous animals (we eat both plants and meat) We would expect to find characteristics in our species that are also prevalent in others that fit the profile. For example: we produce more sweat on our hands and foot soles than we 'need' in evolutionary sense. They tend to be wetter than the rest of our skin. Why do we have so much (or such active) sweat glands on our hands and feet? We must look at our close relatives, the monkeys and apes. They have this too! It helps them to have a better grip when climbing into trees. People still spit their hands if they need to get extra grip on something. The position of our sweat glands (on our hands and feet) have not yet had time to 'evolve away' because of the relatively short period of time it took us to get out of the trees and into the cities we have built for ourselves. This DOESN'T necessarily mean that EVERY single sweat gland is meant for extra grip though. Other glands use the technic known as 'evaporation' to cool the body temperature down (sweat on our fore head - kangaroos lick bare patches of skin to have the same effect) or sweat is produced to spread around pheromones (arm pits, pubic area) that attract the opposite sex. There's a good reason to take less showers! I must add that the last function is still unproven. If you want to know more: About pheromones What else would we want to explain? Perhaps where love comes from? I don't want to make this post TOO big, but I can explain the idea in short. We can always get into it deeper if anyone wants. The idea of love has often been attributed to gods (there are 103 deities for 'love'. I am not even counting the gods and goddesses of 'sex'. More info: here). Love -the special feeling we get when we are around friends and family and often too around babies and children- has a very specific goal in evolution. Love makes bonds. That is what marriage is all about. When too people commit themselves to each other they make sure that they their children will have two parents. I guess you all know what is supposed to happen on the honeymoon... MAKE BABIES. In quite some ways christianity seems to go hand in hand with evolution. Animals make bonds too. There are quite some animals that pair up for life and take care of their children together. The thing we call love finds its origin in the process of bonding. Evolution has favoured the individuals that took the trouble to stay with their mate and stay with their children (because these children had a higher rate of survival). The genes of these compasionate animals had a greater chance of being passed on to the next generation etc. etc. Why do not ALL animals stay with their young and have loving relations? Because quite some young animals can handle themselves just fine and don't need parental care. (A lot of lizards for example) And let's not forget that the male of almost all species is polygamous. If there is no absolute need to stay around the child, he doesn't: He can produce dozens of other children if he leaves or look after just 1... It has always been the environment that influenced what the best decision was. And in our species staying together was the best solution (though a lot of men are still polygamous!) Our vision! We can't have a discussion about evolution without mentioning the human eye, now can we A few quick facts about our eye: We can see 3-dimensional and we can see colour (except for those unfortunate 'mutants' that are colour blind. No offense though, mutations made us the people we are today). Why do we have these two features? We have a lot in common with other social (predatorial) animals. I mention lions and wolves a lot. You might know that dogs and cats can not see in colour. They lack the parts of the eye that lets us see in colour. You can look this up on the internet. Why can bees and humans see in colour and cats and dogs not?! It is most likely that the monkey-like ancestors of us and the other apes had a liking for fruit. We all know that apes like fruit (like bananas) and that an individual that can tell the difference between a ripe, a rotten and a green banana has 'better genes' that a colour blind monkey. So when by some random mutation the ability to distinguish 1 or more colours occured in some individuals, this trait was very valuable! The trait is not of any specific use to a lion, because whether it is stalking a green zebra or a black and white one, in yellow, red, blue or black&white grass, that ability does not increase its chances of survival. But if a monkey can pick the first yellow (ripe) banana of a tree with green bananas, it certainly has a head start compared to its colour blind companions. Bees can distinguish colour too. And it doesn't come as a surprise that they live around colourful flowers! Evolution benefits those animals that can develop (by mutation) a trait that increases their chances of survival. I have used the three characteristics of humans to compare them with animals. There are all kinds of features (being a social/solitary animal, being a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, being an arctic animal, being an semi-aquatic animal, being a flying animal etc etc....) and these features can be found in others that fit into that category. There are certain general comparisons between all predatorial bird/mammals/dinosaurs (3-d vision). There are quite some similarities between all grazing animals (adapted digestive systems for digesting the tough grass). There are generalisations that can be made about all arctic animals (thay need either blubber or fur to stay warm). Our species, homo sapiens sapiens can be categorised like all the other animals. I hope this (rather long) post has made it clear that I am not just grabbing random animals; I am comparing our species to animals that share a characteristic, because there is a good chance that we have something in common, as you would expect when animals have the same life style. |
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