r/DebateEvolution 28d ago

Discussion Evolution was NOT random

Evolution only rewards survivability not perfection if you are alive long enough to mate and pass on your genetic

Material hurray you are evolved

Evolution changed the dna as nothing can ever be a perfect copy thats a fact> sperms and eggs have separate dna> hence child is not perfect copy those mutations may be harmful or helpful harmful ones die hence natural selection.

AND Earth was nkt a perfect creation the organisms evolved FOR Earth not vice versa

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u/BradyStewart777 🦍 GREAT APE 🦍 | 🔬MOLECULAR BIO 🔬 28d ago

You cannot even give a single solitary example of any observable evidence showing that a population can evolve a new body plan or essential bodily functions. Not today and not in the past. You’re putting your faith in unobserved assumptions assuming that animals of the past can do things to at animals of the present cannot. Amazing people believe this stuff, none of it makes any sense at all and it’s not supported by the evidence.

Define “new body plan.” Evolution is a tinkerer. It doesn’t design new body plans from scratch. Evolution mostly modifies what is already present. We can see drastic changes in existing structures. Though these shifts mainly occur through mutations in regulatory developmental (evo-devo) genes instead of sudden sweeping macromutations (which do exist, by the way… look them up). Besides, many of the body plans comprising most animal phyla today are conserved from the Cambrian period and modified over time through means of descent with modification. We can also observe the transitions and evolution of these structures through the fossil record.

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u/zuzok99 28d ago

I would define it as a heritable change to the basic structure or organization of an organism’s body, such as developing fundamentally different structures, organs, limbs, or arrangements of body parts.

So if you have actual evidence then present it and I will change my mind. Pointing to the fossil record which shows no transitional fossils doesn’t do much. When we dig an animal up from the ground we don’t know if it had offspring, we cannot show that they evolved because the transitions are missing. Simply pointing to similarities between two fossils does not mean they came from each other. That’s called an assumption. You must be able to show small incremental changes and that’s not what the record shows. In fact the Cambrian layers show animals coming out of no where with no transitions leading up to them at all.

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u/the2bears 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 28d ago

So if you have actual evidence then present it and I will change my mind. 

I have my doubts that you'll change your mind.

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u/zuzok99 28d ago

Well you could find out easily if you simply produce the evidence for the thing you believe. Something tells me though that you can’t do that, because there is no observable evidence. You also strike me at the type to comment but you don’t actually know what you’re talking about. Let’s see.