This thread is supposed to be on Science not theology.
Dear Vitamin_C, the video posted talks about science and scripture and words muslim biologist are present in the heading of the thread. The link to what the quran contains in its pages is so obvious. Moreover if you have time please read through the links to see the connection between things we are used to seeing in isolation.
regards and all the best.
her views are no different to qadiyanis............... I dont know if qadiyanis have any influence in middle East
her views are no different to qadiyanis............... I dont know if qadiyanis have any influence in middle East
I disagree with her.
Counter Questions:
1:
Evolution happens but not the way she described. History has been recorded for centuries. What new specie has been evolved?
Evolution takes a longtime but there are many examples where evolution has been observed over the decades in many species with shorter life spans such as fruit-flies moths, bactaria cultures, lizards etc. We are all evolving but its hard for us to see because its a very gradual process, how-over if you compare a human skull from today and compare with a homo Sapein skull from 100,000 years ago there will be minute differences in size.
2:
If a specie is converted to another specie then where is a middle form of human and chimpanzee. If we could find the fossils of dinosaurs then why couldn't a single fossil was discovered of half man half chimpanzee?
Species do not simply convert from one to another, evolution works like a clock it does not suddenly become 5pm after 12pm... seconds pass and then minutes etc... If you can put a picture of your parents then their parents then theirs and go like this for millions of years every each generation will be similar to its parents, but the last generation and the first generation of them all will be very different from each other.
We did not evolve from chimpanzee, the theory says that Humans and Chimpanzees had a common ancestor about 5 million years ago. There are many fossil evidence of transitionary species between those apes and modern humans such as Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Archaic HomoSapiens and modern HomoSapiens. This can be proven via DNA evidence which that which species is our ancestor and which is not. For example when Neanderthal man was discovered everyone thought it was our ancestor but after DNA testing it was proved that it was a totally different species that lived alongside Homo Sapiens but they were close enough that they could interbreed with us and part of Europeans DNA is Neanderthal. (Thats how accurate DNA evidence is)
Argument 1;
If all species were evolved from single DNA then it require very long time which exceeds the age of planet earth. Planet earth is only 6 billion years old roughly and and it was fireball in the beginning. For 1.5 billion years, no life could be existed because earth was cooling down. So for sake of argument, if new species began forming 3.5 billion years ago then this period is not enough to explain thousands of species that have formed so far.
From observation of Fossil evidence we can see that there was ample time for evolution to happen, species can be dated via various techniques from different branches of sciences such chemistry and geology and all cross confirm each other.
Argument 2:
Human history has been recorded in many forms and all big religions are agree on the fact that Adam was the first Man on earth. As scientists estimated, the humanity is 200,000 years old. So we could say that Adam existed 200,000 years ago as per a rough estimate. So help me understand why humanity stopped evolving in last 200,000 years. But we see that evolution did happen not more than able to generate different skin colors of humans. But chromosomes in all skin colored cells are same 46. Like a black man has the same number of chromosomes as a white.
Humanity did not stop evolving since 200,000 years. Archaic Homo Sapiens(now extinct) from that time are slightly different from homo sapiens sapiens of today. All specimens found between the period and today have been transitionary humans between the 2. Chromosomes are the same because it has just been 60,000 years since humans left Africa and that is not enough time for evolution to make large changes such as number of chromosomes.
Argument 3:
It is a fact that a specie is different from another because of the number of chromosomes in its cell.
It has also been recorded that humanity was so diversed in the past before the nation states created. Which means people of different race have been married, like Asian and African, White and middle eastern, Korean and European and what not. But history didn't record any difference in the number of chromosomes in any of the new generation. Well, people didn't have scientific equipment in the past so they couldn't find out if there are people with different number of chromosomes but according to my knowledge people as we have today of different races have 46 number of chromosomes. If there were any human with different number of chromosomes in their cells then why scientists should be able to find that rare case.
Again, its only been 60,000 years since humans left Africa and from archaelogical evidence it may have been just a group of less than 100 people that crossed the red sea, all Chinese europeans native americans etc are all decendents of those 100 people, and its only been 60,000 years. Had it been 1million or 5 million years then you would see the big changes.
We branched off from common ancestors with Chimpanzee over 5 million years ago but we still have the same amount of chromosomes as chimps (24 pairs). Of course you will say no we have 23 pairs, but scientists discovered that we have 24 pairs, one of them is turned off over the millions of years and is still left over in our DNA!
Argument 4:
Finally, the similarity between the DNA code of two species doesn't mean one came out of the other or vice versa. If I am a computer programmer, people would fine similarity among two different codes written by me. But that doesn't mean one code came out of the other or other evolved from the first. Similarly, all genetic code were written by Almighty God which doesn't mean that one code came out of the other.
If you are a computer programmer then you know about incremental development. If I gave you 5 programs and they are all the same programs but each of the next program includes an incremental development over the previous program. Would you be able to spot that each of the next program is an evolved form of the previous one?
Conclusion:
Evolution happens but not the way scientists describe. A specie doesn't evolve into another specie because the number of chromosomes remain the same.
Evolution is a fact and the only way we have to explain how it happens is the one tested by the scientific methods according to the technology we have today. But if anyone has a better idea of how it happens they can publish a journal article and have it peer reviewed by the scientific community, you will not only receive a nobel prize but will not have to work for the rest of your life.
We were not taught about this things in school and it does not sound very intuitive at first, it did not sound easy to understand for me aswel at first but once you start trying to understand how it works it all starts to make sense.
When you said a species suddenly converts to another species ie chimp to man, you remind me of myself when I was first starting to understand evolution but thats not how evolution works. I would recommend you to watch this video it will explain how evolution works and what it actually is. It also has alot of the answers to your questions in detail and is very interesting to watch.
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First of all I need to clarify again that there is no difference of opinion that evolution happened. The matter to be discussed is how it happened. The way it is described in the video is nothing new that I am not aware of. Changing DNA and number of chromosomes in nucleolus through natural selection is the base of modern theory of evolution. What I mean by the evolution is only changing DNA where number of chromosomes remain the same in all species. For our ease I will name the theory you're advocating as evolution-A and the theory I am advocating is evolution-B.
Again:
Your Evolution-A: Through natural selection, Changing DNA, Changing number of chromosomes in nucleolus and eventually new species become.
My Evolution-B: Through natural selection, Changing DNA, Same number of Chromosomes in nucleolus and no new species become.
It would be great if you could address my questions rather than trying to convince me with your ideas. The ideas you are presenting are not new for me. And if you clearly read my questions, I included the premise that evolution-A happened. I just asked the questions assuming that the premise is true. So I gave full space to anybody to answer the questions I raised on the ground where evolution-A is assumed to be true.
Now assuming the premise that A-evolution is true:
A generation took birth from chimpanzee's family which was closer enough to modern Humans. The next generation took birth which was closer more than the last generation to the modern day humans. And this process took time say for 100,000 years and human didn't even notice that their ancestors were monkey. Given that there were suitable environment for this process to happen. The question arises that if this process stopped in very distant past or it is still happening?
If it took 100,000 years to evolve human then 1000 years = 100,000*1/100 which is 1% of the total evolution ever happened. Which means 1% of the evolution happened in almost 1000 years. The bodies discovered as mummies and other human fossils that were discovered are more than 1000 years old. In fact the fossils found in Egypt are approximately 5000 years ago. The oldest DNA discovered is 45,000 years ago and scientists claimed that it's human DNA. How did they recognize it as human DNA because it wasn't very different from current day human DNA. I don't know if scientist counted the number of chromosomes in the cell or not but that's the only way scientists can differentiate the DNA's of different species.
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-oldest-dna-humans-global-trek.html
This fact shows that 45,000 years ago, human was human as it is today and it should be enough time to branch a new specie that comes after human being on the tree diagram of A-evolution. But why there is not any evidence of that shows that there is an evolved specie after human? Or explain me why on earth, the evolution stopped 45,000 years ago?
I just want to make sure you read my reply, under each of your questions I gave an answer and in one of the answers I mentioned that Humans did not evolve from Chimpanzee, Chimpanzee and Human both evolved from shared common ancestor. Let me know if you have read my reply because it seems like you have not because it does not make sense to repeat what I have already mentioned about human evolution, I mentioned that Homo did not evolve in 100,000 years but over 5 million years from a common ape like ancestor, in that time one pair of DNA has become defunct.
Can you please name the specie you think human evolved from? Just for future reference however it doesn't matter because that is not answering the questions I raised at the first place.
I am also not arguing how many years humans took to be evolved. Question is how far in the past do you think humans evolved as we know them today? And if humans are still evolving or not?
If humans are still evolving then is there any difference b/w the human of 45000 years ago(whose DNA was recovered) and the human of present time or their have been no change for 45000 years?
Now please educate me what part of these questions are non nonsensical to you?
You should stick with banning Shezan Juice and other "Qadiyani" products where you are from. This topic exceeds your ability of comprehension as evident from your comment above.
Argument 2:
Human history has been recorded in many forms and all big religions are agree on the fact that Adam was the first Man on earth. As scientists estimated, the humanity is 200,000 years old. So we could say that Adam existed 200,000 years ago as per a rough estimate. So help me understand why humanity stopped evolving in last 200,000 years. But we see that evolution did happen not more than able to generate different skin colors of humans. But chromosomes in all skin colored cells are same 46. Like a black man has the same number of chromosomes as a white.
Humanity did not stop evolving since 200,000 years. Archaic Homo Sapiens(now extinct) from that time are slightly different from homo sapiens sapiens of today. All specimens found between the period and today have been transitionary humans between the 2. Chromosomes are the same because it has just been 60,000 years since humans left Africa and that is not enough time for evolution to make large changes such as number of chromosomes.
Argument 3:
It is a fact that a specie is different from another because of the number of chromosomes in its cell.
It has also been recorded that humanity was so diversed in the past before the nation states created. Which means people of different race have been married, like Asian and African, White and middle eastern, Korean and European and what not. But history didn't record any difference in the number of chromosomes in any of the new generation. Well, people didn't have scientific equipment in the past so they couldn't find out if there are people with different number of chromosomes but according to my knowledge people as we have today of different races have 46 number of chromosomes. If there were any human with different number of chromosomes in their cells then why scientists should be able to find that rare case.
Again, its only been 60,000 years since humans left Africa and from archaelogical evidence it may have been just a group of less than 100 people that crossed the red sea, all Chinese europeans native americans etc are all decendents of those 100 people, and its only been 60,000 years. Had it been 1million or 5 million years then you would see the big changes.We branched off from common ancestors with Chimpanzee over 5 million years ago but we still have the same amount of chromosomes as chimps (24 pairs). Of course you will say no we have 23 pairs, but scientists discovered that we have 24 pairs, one of them is turned off over the millions of years and is still left over in our DNA!
Evolution is an ongoing process, but it does not proceed at a constant progress, sometimes its slower(for example fish) and it other times its faster(cambrian explosion). Again 45,000 years in human life is not enough time for big changes. If it were 4.5 million years then most probably you will get a completely different species as this was approximately the time it took for Homo species to evolve into different species. Although I will say it is highly likely, I wouldn't say it for sure because the theory states that evolution does not occur in a constant time scale as some happens faster than the other it depends on the natural situation.
I do not know when the current form of Homo sapiens evolved because it was a gradual process and its very vague about where to draw a line in the sand because its an ongoing process through out the years, but I would say anywhere from 100,000 to 10,000 years. But we are evolving still and every generation is an evolved form of a previous generation, you are copy of some traits of your father and some of your mother.
Vitamin C
Your research is flawed on many levels, and you are proving others assumptions wrong by certain assumptions on your end as well, eg humans probably evolved from a few humans 60000 based on AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ! really !!!! do you know much about how an archaeological EVIDENCE is formulated, and you really feel strong enough to quote that as evidence. I would suggest it at best as CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE if corroborated by any other authenticated evidence (good luck finding something more authenticated from 60000 yrs ago).
Besides, speaking of human evolution, I posted a link some time ago here about some math work from Quran suggesting timeline of creation of universe and this planet. I found Quran saying universe being 18 billion yrs old, with earth aged 1/3rd of this. Required a bit of math work, but it wasn't that difficult. If need be, I can dig out and post that data again. Point is, the conventional biblical theme about evolutionary timeline as depicted by testaments and believed to be representing all monotheistic religions is flawed (usually a few thousand years).
We do not know how evolution happened, and that's what Charles Darwin concluded as well. He suggested a few hypothetical scenarios, which stalwarts of science subsequently elevated to the level of IRREFUTABLE SCIENCE. What we do know is, the human, this planet and this universe are all very ancient things. For a start, the first human we know may not necessarily be the homo sapien that we relate to, Adam being a giant by many multiples of today's humans and living apparently for 1000 yrs himself. Between him and Noah (who lived for roughly 1 millennium himself) there were a few millennials. And we are only taking Adam and Noah still. The whole Indian mythology evolved afterwards, including Eshwar, Shankar and the rest, with greek gods evolving subsequently.
The bigger picture that I look at, under instruction of Quran and islam. I think human story could be dating back to millions if not hundreds of thousands of years. Just because we found a few skeletons in a cave dating back to 60000 yrs ago is not enough an evidence to explain how all humanity shrank to 10 heads and then evolved again ( I am speaking metaphorical).
Argument 2:
Human history has been recorded in many forms and all big religions are agree on the fact that Adam was the first Man on earth. As scientists estimated, the humanity is 200,000 years old. So we could say that Adam existed 200,000 years ago as per a rough estimate. So help me understand why humanity stopped evolving in last 200,000 years. But we see that evolution did happen not more than able to generate different skin colors of humans. But chromosomes in all skin colored cells are same 46. Like a black man has the same number of chromosomes as a white.
Humanity did not stop evolving since 200,000 years. Archaic Homo Sapiens(now extinct) from that time are slightly different from homo sapiens sapiens of today. All specimens found between the period and today have been transitionary humans between the 2. Chromosomes are the same because it has just been 60,000 years since humans left Africa and that is not enough time for evolution to make large changes such as number of chromosomes.
Argument 3:
It is a fact that a specie is different from another because of the number of chromosomes in its cell.
It has also been recorded that humanity was so diversed in the past before the nation states created. Which means people of different race have been married, like Asian and African, White and middle eastern, Korean and European and what not. But history didn't record any difference in the number of chromosomes in any of the new generation. Well, people didn't have scientific equipment in the past so they couldn't find out if there are people with different number of chromosomes but according to my knowledge people as we have today of different races have 46 number of chromosomes. If there were any human with different number of chromosomes in their cells then why scientists should be able to find that rare case.
Again, its only been 60,000 years since humans left Africa and from archaelogical evidence it may have been just a group of less than 100 people that crossed the red sea, all Chinese europeans native americans etc are all decendents of those 100 people, and its only been 60,000 years. Had it been 1million or 5 million years then you would see the big changes.We branched off from common ancestors with Chimpanzee over 5 million years ago but we still have the same amount of chromosomes as chimps (24 pairs). Of course you will say no we have 23 pairs, but scientists discovered that we have 24 pairs, one of them is turned off over the millions of years and is still left over in our DNA!
Evolution is an ongoing process, but it does not proceed at a constant progress, sometimes its slower(for example fish) and it other times its faster(cambrian explosion). Again 45,000 years in human life is not enough time for big changes. If it were 4.5 million years then most probably you will get a completely different species as this was approximately the time it took for Homo species to evolve into different species. Although I will say it is highly likely, I wouldn't say it for sure because the theory states that evolution does not occur in a constant time scale as some happens faster than the other it depends on the natural situation.
I do not know when the current form of Homo sapiens evolved because it was a gradual process and its very vague about where to draw a line in the sand because its an ongoing process through out the years, but I would say anywhere from 100,000 to 10,000 years. But we are evolving still and every generation is an evolved form of a previous generation, you are copy of some traits of your father and some of your mother.