12-24-2005, 10:18 AM
Jester,Dec 23 2005, 04:54 PM Wrote:We've got the whole zoological tree, going all the way back to one-celled organisms. We know the broad mechanism of change (adaptation through selection) and the specific one (genetic mutation).
What doesn't evolution account for?
-Jester
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It's a theory based on very partial evidence, which is often not even directly tied together. It does not account for many of it's links. Simplest example is how did the Neanderthals become extinct? Did modern man wipe them out? Where is the link between us and our direct ancestors? The Neanderthals won't tell us. Homo habilis and Homo erectus (unlike Homo pederastus, heh) lived from 1 to 2 million years ago, approximately and they were supposedly our direct ancestors. We then know that Homo sapiens appeared approximately 100,000 years ago and that's it. What happened in between? Evolution? God? Little green martians with a DNA splicer? We know nothing.
-A