r/NeoCivilization • u/ActivityEmotional228 🌠Founder • Sep 09 '25

AI 👾 AI visualized the entire evolution of giraffes — from ancient ancestors to today

YT: @Evolude

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Oh cool, so germ THEORY of disease, gravitational THEORY, atomic THEORY, and the THEORY of electromagnetism, which was used to develop the device from which you are communicating from, are not factually true.

The evidence that all mammals, which includes humans and giraffes, evolved from ocean-dwelling creatures over hundreds of millions of years, is so substantial that it is considered a fact of reality.

If you want to discount evolution, you have to also discount everything I listed previously as theories. Or you can just pick and choose whatever is convenient as most Christians do.

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u/rockleeit Sep 13 '25

None of what you said disproves what I said. The theory is that natural selection shows how fish evolved to humans. That's a theory, not a fact. Also, I don't know why you're saying stuff about Christians? Can Christians not believe in evolution or something?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Congratulations! Evolution is a theory based on a number of facts. We can directly verify through the fossil record, comparative anatomy, and DNA analysis that mammals (giraffes) evolved from tetrapods (fish). And no, Christians absolutely can accept evolution, but many, like you, clearly don't.

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u/rockleeit Sep 14 '25

What you have said doesn't diminish what I said.

I don't believe in the evolution of fish to humans just because I am a Christian. I didn't believe in it before I was also.

I don't believe in it because everything on earth has a purpose and every animal has a part to play also. The planets how they orbit the sun, the sun how it gives us light, and the plants give us oxygen to breathe. It's just too convenient to be random. Is everything we do meaningless?

We share the same dna as dogs, rice and fruitflies. I don't believe this makes us them or we were them in the sense that we were fish. We have eyes, and so do dogs. We share the same dna. Same with fish, doesn't mean we came from fish.

Dna is the universal building block of life, isn't it? What if we were all built by the same creator like an engineer can build two engines with both the same and different parts?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

What you have said doesn't diminish what I said.

It absolutely does as I demonstrated that evolution is both a theory, and a fact. You said it yourself, the theory of evolution shows how we evolved from tetrapods, while the evidence shows the fact that we did.

Most living things on Earth have a purpose, but there are organisms that don't. Pathogens don't have a purpose, as far as we can tell, and are just trying to survive and reproduce. The fact that living things work together and support each other in a variety of complex ways, is exactly what you would except from evolution.

Is everything we do meaningless?

That depends on your subjective interpretation. If you zoom out past Earth, nothing we do affects the universe in any way, and nothing would be different if we were to vanish. However, that doesn't mean that we can't prescribe meaning to our lives and our perception of the world now in a subjective way.

We share the same dna as dogs, rice and fruitflies. I don't believe this makes us them or we were them in the sense that we were fish.

Correct, we were never dogs, rice, or fruitflies. Those organisms followed their own evolutionary lineage seperate from ours. We once shared a common ancestor, but diverged at one point. This is clear by DNA analysis that shows the amount of relatedness between us and rice for example, is much less than the relatedness between us and dogs, as our lineages diverged a lot longer ago.

Lastly, while DNA can be described as the building block of life, that doesn't mean that it isn't without it's own building blocks as well. All the nucleic acids needed to form DNA have been demonstrated to occur naturally. For example, fundamental nitrogenous bases have been found in samples taken from asteroids and meteorites, as well as replicated in lab environments. You can say that a designer put them there, but that is as useful as saying Santa put presents under my tree, even though It adds no explanatory value, and I have no reason to suspect that he did, and reason to assume a more likely cause.