Some musings of mine - Athiests answer me this, cell division

[2Thick]

what mutations worked against the organism to cause it to perish? im not trying to get on a religious kick im honestly curious

There are a million examples, but having feet too big to run fast enough to escape a predator is a negative mutation.

 

[Mattavelli]

what animal

 

[Mattavelli]

what animal and where

 

[2Thick]

what animal

Any mammal that is hunted.

An example for humans would be obese people or people who do lack the motivation to hunt and kill for food. They will just die away and not have offspring (unlike in the past 100 years where the rules have changed drastically).

 

[Mattavelli]

if every animal were able to out run its predator what would occur?

 

[2Thick]

if every animal were able to out run its predator what would occur?

They would be like the feral pigs and dogs in Australia.

They would overrun the environment and die off from starvation.

 

[Mattavelli]

ok so how is it that these disfavorable mutations are actualyl disfavorable

 

[2Thick]

ok so how is it that these disfavorable mutations are actualyl disfavorable

Simply put, a negative mutation is anything that prevents a creature from passing on its genes. A positive mutation is anything that allows a creature to pass on as many of its genes as possible.

 

[Mattavelli]

so a disfavorable mutation would be...death? if an animal dies of natural causes it has a disfavorable mutation. nevertheless this conversation is getting no where. The question , if i ever got to ask it , i want to ask is do you believe in God? Or are you product of a random chance mutation. Or what is your theory behind how this earth came to be and how you came to be? that is what i would like to hear from an educated man like yourself.

 

[2Thick]

so a disfavorable mutation would be...death? if an animal dies of natural causes it has a disfavorable mutation. nevertheless this conversation is getting no where. The question , if i ever got to ask it , i want to ask is do you believe in God? Or are you product of a random chance mutation. Or what is your theory behind how this earth came to be and how you came to be? that is what i would like to hear from an educated man like yourself.

I do not have the intellectual capacity to learn, process and understand physics, astronomy and geology at a level that would be necessary to answer such a question.

With that being said, I will say that if a "God" exists, he is neither Omnipotent nor omniscient. The earth developed from what leading scientists call the "Big Bang."

There have been millions of years of evolution on earth. The sun is 5 billion years old and it is considered a new medium sized star. Our galaxy is one of millions and is the equivalent of one grain of sand in a large beach. As humans have seen, occurrences with minute probabilities eventually occur over a infinite amount of time. Therefore, it is very possible that we are an anomaly or that we are one of many anomalies.

That is what I think about that (in a nutshell)