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  One aspect of evolution that does not make sense.....

  by EndofMysteries in

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  the part that does make sense are how bodies adapt over time to surroundings and use.

  for example because of eating habits changing, our jaws have become smaller and we don't need wisdom teeth.

  or the effect of the sun on our skin, etc.

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  I know the origin of the universe and evolution are two different things, but I know that those understandings and beliefs are shared and understood the same way by many.

  More back to the original question or idea I was trying to explain...... A chameleon for example, it's ability to camoflauge and look almost identical to where it's standing, and to get even more specific depending on the type of predator in the area, evolution absolutely does not make sense and explain that.

  The cameleons body itself can't know if predators are looking for it or that camoflauge will hide it.

  Even within cells itself and viruses, some viruses when they take over cells will camoflauge the cells they are taking over so the t cells won't notice them.

  Is not hiding a thought? Somebody is looking for me, I must try to hide and blend in?

  The peppered moth example stated earlier, I did some research, the moth did not suddenly evolve to a darker color, they were already around. The dark colored moths population grew due to it's ability to blend in better with darker trees. But it was already there to begin with.

  Let's focus on the cameleon example because that eliminates merely how they look since they can change their appearance instantly.
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  One aspect of evolution that does not make sense.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the part that does make sense are how bodies adapt over time to surroundings and use.

  for example because of eating habits changing, our jaws have become smaller and we don't need wisdom teeth.

  or the effect of the sun on our skin, etc.

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  Those who turn around the questions with asking about God.....I didn't even say the alternative answer is God created it either. All I am seeing is that the things that have made God unbelieve to those who don't believe, have been replaced with essentially the same explanations in a scientific sense. "God can't possibly be eternal, having no beginning and no end" is replaced with "Matter cannot be created nor destroyed" So God being eternal is replaced with matter being eternal. Then there is God suddenly decided to create everything out of nothing is replaced with the big bang theory, some abundance of energy spontaneously creates everything out of nothing.

  If you want to think critically, why are you limiting yourselves to one of those 2 explanations? In regards to evolution on specifics like I just mentioned, if random evolution does not make sense, if God does not make sense to you, then why do you think it has to be one or anohter? Look at other untouched possibilities.

  The big bang obviously did not make sense to some scientists and they decided to look into other possibilies or the new 4th dimensional black hole theory would not have ever been thought up, which supposedly may soon replace the big bang theory as the most scientifically plausible theory.
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  One aspect of evolution that does not make sense.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the part that does make sense are how bodies adapt over time to surroundings and use.

  for example because of eating habits changing, our jaws have become smaller and we don't need wisdom teeth.

  or the effect of the sun on our skin, etc.

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  Black people are a mutation? The fact that the races that have more exposure to the sun are darker than those with less exposure has absolutely nothing to do with it?

  If birds ate black people, in a million years any white people left that lived their lives over generations hundreds/thousands of year wearing no clothes in the African sun would turn into black people themselves. I don't think race color is a mutation but an adaptation to sun exposure over many generations.

  But based on the mutation idea,

  Did that above insect just by chance one day get a mutation that happens to look like that leaf and they just happen to develop the idea to hide within leaves that just happen to look like them?

  With chameleons and their ability to do a near perfect blending in based on the predator and how well they see and less blending in if the predator does not see as well, far too many loopholes for those to be just random mutations.
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  One aspect of evolution that does not make sense.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the part that does make sense are how bodies adapt over time to surroundings and use.

  for example because of eating habits changing, our jaws have become smaller and we don't need wisdom teeth.

  or the effect of the sun on our skin, etc.

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  I want to add that saying something along the lines of it evolved to blend in and hide is not an acceptable answer. It's one thing if a species evolves because of a constant parasite attack, etc, but for an evolution to be due to blending in and hiding so it's not eaten, that denotes intelligence. What in their body figured out that if they don't blend in they may be eaten? What in their body determined what blending in actually is? Those things are not a response to something on their body like constant sunlight, parasites, food changes, weather changes, etc. How would the body even know it was at risk of predators and a way to blend in?
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  One aspect of evolution that does not make sense.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the part that does make sense are how bodies adapt over time to surroundings and use.

  for example because of eating habits changing, our jaws have become smaller and we don't need wisdom teeth.

  or the effect of the sun on our skin, etc.

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  The part that DOES make sense are how bodies adapt over time to surroundings and use. For example because of eating habits changing, our jaws have become smaller and we don't need wisdom teeth. Or the effect of the sun on our skin, etc.

  But how on Earth can defense mechanisms be evolved in animals? '

  For example, how did the ability to camouflage get onto chameleons? What made their DNA or whereever it came from say, "My species is being eaten up by predators, so I better evolve the ability to camouflage." If a chemeleon is eaten up, it can't pass anything that would trigger an evolution. How did an insect at one point turn into the leaf insect? At some point it decided that to look like a leaf would protect it?

  Those things are not a response to their body from the surroundings, it's to avoid just vanishing altogether.

  Let's say that car accidents cause 50% of human deaths by their heads being crushed in the accident. Those who died can't pass anything down, so will somehow humans magically evolve into super hard shell heads to avoid their heads being crushed from an accident?

  This is different then lets say if many people kept loosing a finger and over time the ability to regrow the finger came, because there would be some information on the body passed down. But those that are dead are dead and if the death is due to a one time thing, it doesn't make sense those abilities could come from evolution.
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  Athiests - If there is no God, is planet Earth itself a living entity?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  inside our own bodies there lives an entire world of living things.

  inside just a single cell there exists an entire world as well.

  to me, the general description of evolution just does not make sense if you factor in everything combined.

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  and everything being in a race to survive still results in the survival of the fittest. viruses and parasites kill off weaker ones or reduce populations. predatory animals catch the sick and weak the easiest.

  Aside from that, trees for example, we take in oxygen and give off carbon, they take in carbon and give off oxygen. If water always remained in liquid state and never water the earth, if it was always in a solid state, the same thing.
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  Athiests - If there is no God, is planet Earth itself a living entity?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  inside our own bodies there lives an entire world of living things.

  inside just a single cell there exists an entire world as well.

  to me, the general description of evolution just does not make sense if you factor in everything combined.

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  that's a cool picture jgnat.
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  Athiests - If there is no God, is planet Earth itself a living entity?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  inside our own bodies there lives an entire world of living things.

  inside just a single cell there exists an entire world as well.

  to me, the general description of evolution just does not make sense if you factor in everything combined.

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  If the above is the case, then humans have become a virus.
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  Athiests - If there is no God, is planet Earth itself a living entity?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  inside our own bodies there lives an entire world of living things.

  inside just a single cell there exists an entire world as well.

  to me, the general description of evolution just does not make sense if you factor in everything combined.

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  EndofMysteries

  Inside our own bodies there lives an entire world of living things. Inside just a single cell there exists an entire world as well.

  To me, the general description of evolution just does not make sense if you factor in everything combined. One life form adapts to its surroundings.

  On the Earth, everything has a purpose to promote healthy life and destroy unhealthy life. If you look at how bacteria for digestion, ants cleaning up dead insects and rotton fruits, birds canvasing the skies to clean up dead animals, worms to make soil better, trees to make oxygen and eat carbon, animals to breath oxygen and release carbon, if you don't believe a God created it all, then it atleast appears that such as within our own bodies there exists a world of life to keep us alive, that perhaps the planet or something else is a life and that's how there is such a diversity of life on this planet with a purpose.

  Even if you don't believe in God, the current explanations for life on Earth are just as hard and don't answer all questions.
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  Chat with Elder, how would you reply?

  by awakening in

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  had a sit down chat with an elder who is aware of my doubts.

  we were on the subject of new light, i was saying that if the org changes a teaching then the old teaching was wrong and cannot qualify as truth at the time it was taught, so where did the falsehood come from?.

  his response was the gb is imperfect!!

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  According to the GB, the story of Moses would go something like this......

  And Moses spake to the son of Israel and said, "We must henceforth go into the wilderness and leave Egypt and the Lord will provide for us." Then all of Israel rejoiced and the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and finally Israel quested into the wilderness. The people were dying of starvation. And Moses spake, "Sons of Israel, in your eagerness to be redeemed, you falsely assummed that if you went into the wilderness, the Lord would provide for you, and I just an imperfect man went along with it." Then the sons of Korah stood up, "Obviously Moses was not talking to the Lord, and he is also not humble enough to admit it was his mistake but he is blaming all of you, let us return to Egypt before we all die of this madness." And the Lord suddenly appeared and smited the sons of Korah and everyone else because they dare question the authority of the faithful and discreet slave Moses who was spirited directed even though he was imperfect and giving false information.