What is the probability of the Model T transforming into a Hummer overnight?

  • Thread starter Thread starter db606
  • Start date Start date
D

db606

Guest
What's with the people that don't get evolution? There was a junkyard/car question earlier that just doesn't get it.

The Ford Model T: Are we still driving them? Were there improvements made? Were those improvements large or small? Did those improvements have a cumulative effect? Have cars changed significantly since the Model T?

One car has "evolved" into many numerous types of motor vehicles.

Can you please come up with another analogy?
 
Well they "evolved" according to what the American, and world, needs are. As those needs change so does the type of car we buy. That is why we have cars that are now getting smaller and more fuel efficient, and the big huge SUV's are starting to "die out," its the basic theory of natural selection applied to hte automotive industry.
 
What is the probability that evolution leaves strays behind in its wake? Why would only some primates evolve and other survive largely unchanged through the centuries? Why don't the chimps either disappear or join us at poolside? What I don't 'get' about evolution is why you want to stretch it from a form of environmental change to life's prime mover?
For me, G-d is the prime mover.
 
There are people on both sides of the issue who will never get it no matter how well or how many times it's explained to them. I've walked someone through every single step of the process myself and explained every single detail to him. Only to have him turn around and ask the same question again a couple of months later.

They don't WANT to understand.
They don't WANT to know better.
So even if they lose the argument and are proven wrong, they will just start the same argument all over again with someone else.
 
Here is an analogy that seems pretty simple to me.

Most of us have heard that bacteria can become resistant to an immunization or to antibacterial soap. The bacteria reproduce offspring that inherit the resistance, and the cycle continues.

Over time, the youngest bacteria may bear little to no resemblance to their ancestor, and may even be classified as a new type of virus.

This would be evolution.
 
Why would you want your model T to turn into a gas guzzling nightmare?
 
Most people who have never studied Evolution are "experts" because of the Bible. You can present the best evidence or analogy in the world to them and they still won't believe it because their Faith will not allow them to.
 
You're comparing apples and oranges. Most people admit to evolution (a process, not the origin of man). Of course people evolve - within our own lifetimes our bodies evolve to the environment around us. Withiin generations of families and within cultures you see evolution happening: it's why Northern Indians look a little different than Southern Indians.

What the last question was saying was what was the likelihood that all those pieces could get put together into a working whole with out some kind of Intelligent Designer?

Apples and oranges, apples and oranges.
 
Nice question, many people don't seem to understand how our knowledge is due in large part to an evolution of sorts (trial and error, errors die).

Edit: jdlech1 is right. I've tried to argue about other things, in this realm of nonsense (things that the spiritualists like to jump on), with other people. They may even eventually admit that they are wrong but then they seem to forget we had the argument and start about it all over again. They really don't want to know.
 
The analogy requires car designers, so it is not suited to evolution, which requires no such intelligence.
 
Back
Top