Evolution - EDIT: The beginning of the universe.

Posted by Extravisual on June 16, 2006, 11:12 a.m.

It happened. 'nuff said….

Not enough said at all…

People seem to find the concept of evolution hard to believe, so I'll explain it to make it make sense… [theory]If genetics exist then there is no alternatives for evolution.[/theory] (Yes that was my theory, but that doesn't mean that evolution is…) Okay, here is a brief rundown of how this all works:

Woman has baby

Baby has a genetic defect in its leg.

Baby dies because it can't move.

Babies genes are not passed on in the genetic line.

Next scenario

Woman has baby

Baby has a genetic defect making it slightly stronger than others of its species.

Baby grows up healthy because of being able to provide for itself. (baby is now man)

Man has more babies, each one of them has a 50/50 chance of having the same genetic defect.

Each of the babies with the genetic defect have a higher chance of surviving than the ones without, therefore have a higher chance of continuing the genetic line….

Those were two examples of a specific part of evolution called natural selection.

Unless you can prove genetics false, and prove that a cripple fighting a bear has the same chance of winning as a normal person, evolution will exist in my opinion.

EDITED:

Well as many refuse to be persuaded in favor of evolution, I am not going to push the subject, as I have said before, I am not out to run the world. So now I've decided to edit this and post my personal theory about the beginning of the universe, well, at least whats in it.

PART 1: The Only Part.

It starts with the big bang… I know what many of you are thinking, 'the big bang is bogus…' Well, I don't believe in any supernatural force so this is the best theory I've heard.

So there was this massive ball of a ma terial I think of as a giant atom, it was just pure electron, proton, and neutron… But because this giant atom was so fricken huge, its nuclear membrane couldn't hold it together… so boom a massive explosion sending an uncountable number of sub-atomic particles whizzing in all directions, radiation that would have disintegrated anything in its way… because of the magnetism of these loose sub-atomic particles, they started clumping together to form atoms, these atoms, gravity started pulling on each other, making them start to revolve around each other, forming nebula throughout the universe. These nebula, having huge amounts of gravity themselves started pulling them toward one another, forming many groups of what are now the center of galaxies. These nebula, using what particles they have, started forming stars by gravity compacting tons of Hydrogen until under the pressure, the Hydrogen ignited in a force that created fusion. These stars, having a great deal more gravity than nebula, pulled themselves together to form a globular cluster, then a black hole. (I have no idea how the nebula escaped the power of the black hole…) The nebula continued producing stars, and the black hole kept sucking them in until the black hole started filling up and couldn't keep up with the gravity that the universe full of other black holes produces, so the stars escaped the clutches of the black hole and started very slowly drifting into space. Some of these stars burnt out, either forming nebula, black holes, or a large mass of unused atoms. These atoms, drawn by the force of gravity, started drifting towards the stars, forming planets, comets, asteroids, etc… As our sun is quite an old one, this is about the time our solar system was made. Most of these planets were gaseous, but a few were solid, made of Iron, Carbon, etc… And a few of these planets formed atmospheres, because they were close enough to the sun to get heat, but far enough from the sun to not burn up from ultraviolet radiation. So the galaxies are about finished being created by now, so with atoms colliding at random places in the galaxy, happening every few seconds…. The probability for these atoms colliding to make life is probably 1 in 8000000000000, but this probability is run every few seconds, for 8 billion years, that problability could be hit a few hundred times… Now on this little planet, we now call Earth these random occurrences happened, and formed a single celled organism, which for some reason reproduced, and evolution began. A few million years later, the dinosaurs walked the earth. But then a really big asteroid from mars hit, forming the pacific ocean, and blocking out the sun with the sediment that was blown around. With the sun being out, the plants slowly died, killing out all the herbivores, and forcing the carnivores to eat themselves out. now that there is very little life left, a few little cells crawled out of that asteroid, and evolution started all over again, forming what we have today. Note that this process did not work over night, it took trillions of years.

Comments

KaBob799 18 years, 6 months ago

The chances of finding fossils arent very good, considering we didnt even notice them for a long time. legs and stuff started out as fins that got less finny (lol) and the fish could sort of crawl on land to eat plants up there or something.

I wish I could find a better example

EDIT: @elmernite that is when its up to luck

elmernite 18 years, 6 months ago

But what about the moment when there still to finny to swim but not enough leggy to crawl?

Dead fish.

-Elmernite

Quietus 18 years, 6 months ago

<a href="http://bash.org/?95326">Evolution in a nutshell.</a>

Josea 18 years, 6 months ago

I believe in evolution. I just believe that God started everything and he controls what goes on. It's not a matter of luck that we humans can think and memorize when no other live seer can do it as we do.

Extravisual 18 years, 6 months ago

#10. Thank you very much. I couldn't agree more.

Tasm 18 years, 6 months ago

This is the way I learned in biology class:

A member of a species lives in a certain environment for quite some time. After a while, the organism's basic routines and needs become harder to meet for some reason or another. That organism ADAPTS to these changes by reproducing and its offspring carry genetic alterations that in some way make meeting its basic needs easier(stronger, faster to catch prey, etc.)

Other species, such as the above organism's prey, adapt to these adaptations by chaging in their own ways(become even faster to outrun predators, etc.). This cycle goes on and on and on and on until some other major changes happen(extiction of a species, other organisms being introduced).

So:

Species A can't catch Species B, its main source of food.

Species A becomes faster over generations, enabling it to outrun Species B.

Species B then changes so that it can outrun A, and stay alive.

Now, this is a pretty crude outline of evolution, since in theory, these species could evolve until they run at infinitely fast speeds. It's just an example.

It's all about Mr. Darwin's theory, survival of the fittest. The stronger species take out others, who may adapt so that they can better stay alive.

That is what I believe, anyway. You have no obligation to agree with me.

Extravisual 18 years, 6 months ago

#16: I agree, but the mutations themselves are random, but since the messed up mutations kill out the species, the good ones live on, and then it fits into yours.

Extravisual 18 years, 6 months ago

I also edited this blog post to stick in the history of the universe…

Josea 18 years, 6 months ago

I just don't believe big bang, and neither I believe that life was randomness. Nature is too perfect to be just a hit of luck.

I always have though this: we, normal people, call "God" whatever we can't explain, but Scientists just call what they can't explain "Randomness" or "Luck". For scientists randomness is the way of explaining what they can't explain. So, it's like saying something is behind the scenes, maybe God, but definitevely not just luck.

mesenberg 18 years, 6 months ago

@genetic mutations,

I just replied in my blog about that…

The fact is that mutations cannot create new genes to change the creature.

and as I said, the parts of a cell, including the dna do not just "form". And even if they did form, there is no way they would "float" into a cell and "turn on" all of a sudden.