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Evolution: Did we really evolve from Apes?

Did we evolve from Apes?

  • Yes, we evolved from Apes.

    Votes: 41 57.7%
  • No, we have not evolved in any shape or form, we are the same biological beings we have always been.

    Votes: 10 14.1%
  • Yes, we did evolve, but i do not think we evolved from Apes.

    Votes: 20 28.2%

  • Total voters
    71
Somebody, Ticker, please explain the simplest question to the evolutionist?

It is the tread where I asked you for one, just one link for a peer reviewed publication claiming an observation of speciation. Where I had to spend post after post trying to explain to such a simple question, and still you produced all kind of totally irrelevant things but not even one justone I was asking for.

There has been no evolutionist in my practice who would be able to understand the simplest question:

provide one justone link to a peer reviewed publication claiming an observation of speciation.

I am asking for one, justone article a peer reviewed scientific publication, so I can read and review it. Can you understand?

I love how you are a patronising ass. Sigh, sure ok why not chuckles.
Lowe and Abbot (2003) A new British species, Senecio eboracensis (Asteraceae), another hybrid derivative of S. vulgaris L. and S. squalidus L Watsonia 24: 375–388

http://www.watsonia.org.uk/Vol24p375.pdf

A new species of Senecio from York, England, is described and named as Senecio eboracensis. Evidence is reviewed that this fully fertile, tetraploid species (2n = 40), which was first discovered in 1979, is a hybrid
product of S. vulgaris (2n = 40) and S. squalidus (2n = 20), and is distinct from another tetraploid hybrid product, the stabilized introgressant, S. vulgaris var. hibernicus, and also from the hexaploid hybrid product, S. cambrensis. Other studies have shown that S. eboracensis is reproductively isolated from its parents due toa high level of selfing, phenological separation, sterility of products of back crosses to S. squalidus and
reduced fertility of products of back-crosses to S. vulgaris. The morphological similarity of S. eboracensis to partially fertile, intermediate hybrid plants collected from other locations in the British Isles is discussed, and would indicate that it could arise polytopically following hybridisation between the two parent species. However, other such intermediate hybrid products do not appear to have persisted at their site of origin.

Oh deary deary deary me Justone, looks like speciation has been observed after all. Just like I said. :doh There you have it, a brand NEW species (since it can't mate with its parent species) from two other species.

No, but let me guess. Your going to cry about how this isn't observed speciation and how wrong this article is. Even if scientists brought homo erectus out of the jungles of Indonesia, creationists still would deny evolution. They are stubborn, they are the geocentrics of the 21st century.


Do you agree with the fact that they lie stating that speciation has been observed?
Until the fact is established unarguably there is no sense in explaining it.

So you answer my question with another question? I'll ask again.

WHY IS THE WHOLE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIY (ATHEISTIC AND RELIGIOUS) LYING TO THE WORLD??

I noticed you are obsessed with speciation, is that in recognition that the evidende of the rest of evolution is solid.
 
-- Which is a proof that evolution is not science.

That’s why science used to be such an excited game when it followed rules which not allow zealously of personal beliefs to prevail over reason and facts. It is the matter of survival of human reason and morality – to hunt evolutionists wherever they are found, to petition to ban evolution in science classes, to return science its beauty and excitement. Whatever are the motivations of evolutionists they act as cancer on the beautiful body of science and all people should deal with them like with cancer. Because science is very important for all people, all they have around them – starting from a bicycle and finishing with a space craft wouldn’t be possible without science. It does not provide us with any truth or direction in life, but it certainly makes life very interesting.

I am no scientist however I have read your posts in this debate at first with exasperation and then with growing understanding. I found your exchanges with Tucker very illuminating and informative.

Took me a while to get through the whole thread but worth the read.
 
I am no scientist however I have read your posts in this debate at first with exasperation and then with growing understanding. I found your exchanges with Tucker very illuminating and informative.

Took me a while to get through the whole thread but worth the read.

I cannot tell you how to think. However I would trust people qualified and have expertise in their field in the field of evolution and also trust its in critics failed attempts to disprove in evolution for 150 years than to a guy/girl that has conflicting interests in evolution because of his faith.
A guy/girl that with one hand criticises the apparent lack of evidence for speciation in the effort to debunk and in other hand promotes a creator/intelligent design that has no evidence whatsoever. But of course there is no problem for the lack of evidence in HIS/HER views. Hypocrisy thy name is justone.
 
I cannot tell you how to think. However I would trust people qualified and have expertise in their field in the field of evolution and also trust its in critics failed attempts to disprove in evolution for 150 years than to a guy/girl that has conflicting interests in evolution because of his faith.
A guy/girl that with one hand criticises the apparent lack of evidence for speciation in the effort to debunk and in other hand promotes a creator/intelligent design that has no evidence whatsoever. But of course there is no problem for the lack of evidence in HIS/HER views. Hypocrisy thy name is justone.

You fail immediately.

First you insult intelligence of a poster, saying – don’t think, just trust evolutionists because…. they do evolutionism. It is a typical sign of a non-scientist. A physicist wouldn’t mind to explain theory of relativity to a freshman student and answer questions not doubting the intelligence of the audience, but rather his own ability to make things clear.

My expertise is not in a claim but it is all in my posts. Tucker’s expert thinking is as self-evident as his ability to question 96% of DNA evolutionists are trying to pull on audience everywhere all the time.

It is the #1 argument of evolutionists, ‘’because of his faith’’, they don’t how not to go personal. Infinite Chaos exactly sees because of what. He does not have to be a scientist to see that. Every decent being does not have to be a scientist to see that Tucker’s faith is quite opposite to mine. Every decent being sees that you demonstrate again how evolutionists are blinded by their fanatical faith.

Fail.
 
I am no scientist however I have read your posts in this debate at first with exasperation and then with growing understanding. I found your exchanges with Tucker very illuminating and informative.

Took me a while to get through the whole thread but worth the read.

It takes a good mind to overcome exasperation and look for reason and information. But what is a more important it takes a good character and a good man to step up and say.

I told Tucker that his attitude towards himself was undeserved.

You may be assured that I am grateful to both of you.
 
new species of Senecio from York, England, is described and named as Senecio eboracensis. Evidence is reviewed that this fully fertile, tetraploid species (2n = 40), which was first discovered in 1979, is a hybrid
product of
S.[enecio] vulgaris (2n = 40) and S.[enecio] squalidus (2n = 20), and is distinct from another tetraploid hybrid product, the stabilized introgressant, S. vulgaris var. hibernicus, and also from the hexaploid hybrid product, S. cambrensis. Other studies [??????]have shown that S.[enecio] eboracensis is reproductively isolated from its parents due toa high level of selfing, phenological separation, sterility of products of back crosses to S. squalidus and
reduced fertility of products of back-crosses to S. vulgaris. The morphological similarity of S. eboracensis to partially fertile, intermediate hybrid plants collected from other locations in the British Isles is discussed, and would indicate that it could arise polytopically following hybridisation between the two parent species. However, other such intermediate hybrid products do not appear to have persisted at their site of origin.

Thank you for useful post, GarzaUK! I have to admit that I made wrong statements and I must make two major corrections in my statements induced by the facts of your post.

First of all I was wrong when I said ‘Would it be possible for a fanatical evolutionist to publish such an article, theoretically yes, there are less than a few which call the observation evolution, while it is clear that there is no evolution, I found them in evolution only devoted publications. They are absolutely exclusion.”

I must say now: Would it be possible for a fanatical evolutionist to publish such an article, yes, of course, there are quite a few which call an observation evolution, while it is clear that there is no evolution, I found them in evolution only devoted publications. But they are quite an exclusion.”

I will get to the second correction…


‘’taking the overall we consider York radiate groundsel should be described as a new specie’’…. and give it name ‘’Senecio eboracensis’’ instead of York radiate groundsel

OK. The article is devoted only to the defense of the opinion of the authors to call York radiate groundsel ‘’Senecio eboracensis’’ and a new spicie. Nobody has thought about that before, science need evolutionists to make an article.

Let’s take a look at what is going on:


‘’hybernicus and ‘York radiate groundsel’’ generate highly sterile progeny with S.squalidus.’’ [its parent]

Let me understand, - it does generate progeny or it does not. Do I understand English correctly - A genetic descendant or offspring [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeny]Progeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] ?. Somebody has to explain it to me. It is sterile or it is highly sterile?


‘’The second generation offspring of crosses between York radiate groundsel and Senecio vulgarus exhibit a significant reduction in seed set. ''

You just said that York radiate groundsel does not cross with S. vulgarus. Now you say it does. Somebody pinch me – it does or it does not?. Somebody has to explain it to me



York radiate groundsel is a hybrid, the parents are hybrids and their names are S.squalidus and S. vulgaris. And the article talks about the second generation offspring of crosses between York radiate groundsel and S. vulgarus, and says they do not produce offspring on the same page.

Even if to take that I don’t understand English, the article proves that evolutionists don’t understand what is an experiment and observation in science. Taking a limited sample from the wild and putting it under the condition that wouldn’t allow it to breed, rather than under all possible conditions, and claim that it does not breed is not how experiments are conducted. Besides of that physiology of plants is very different from physiology of life. I don’t have a pdf converter to quote easy but differences in phenology mentioned are like a woman has certain periods when it cannot get pregnant from a man and limiting experiment to this period and claiming that women do not get pregnant from men is not quite scientific.
It would be a must for a real researcher to attempt to cross the Yorker with other Senecios and show that the offspring do not occur and do not cross with his parents, that things do not come on their circle. From the descriptions in the article it is clear that it is not a case, but the opposite is true. Thus, even if the article was not totally bogus claiming totally opposite things on the same page, we see that Senecios are divided into different species by authors totally frivolously, that in all of we have one and only one specie Senecio with different strains and the Yorker quite easily and joyfully mates with other Senecios. Anyone with common sense would see that Senecios are remaining to be Senecios, all of them.

This is a good example how evolutionists often try to manipulate with the uncertain definition of species to fit it to their beliefs. It is not the first and it is not the last example it is very common. But as E.coli bacteria remain e.coli bacteria in all experiments in the same way Senecio remain Senecio in this bogus paper. And BTW the article says that the “’new specie” reproduces with its parents and cousins and brothers. Let me quote from the article:
‘’hybernicus and ‘York radiate groundsel’’[new spicie] generate … progeny with S.squalidus.’’[parent]
‘’The second generation offspring of crosses between York radiate groundsel [new spicie] and Senecio vulgarus [parent] exhibit’’You don’t believe me? Click on the link and read the article. I couldn’t believe my eyes, too.

The difficulties of coping pasting from pdf. make me stop at this there is more to quote but the above is sufficient.

Hybrids are known as a dead way, but not a way of evolution. Also it is known that the conclusion that hybrids cannot mate with their parents may be quite premature like the widely spread belief caused by limited representation in experiments:

‘’Several female mules have produced offspring when mated with a purebred horse or donkey.[7] Since 1527 there have been more than 60 documented cases of foals born to female mules around the world.
There are reports that a mule in China produced a foal in 1984.[8][9]
In Morocco, in early 2002, a mare mule produced a rare foal.[7]
In 2007 a mule named Kate gave birth to a mule son in Colorado.[10][11] Blood and hair samples were tested verifying that the mother was a mule and the colt was indeed her offspring.’’


I am sorry, scientists, you've really made me cry, but I am afraid to call this particular hybrid which is a product of other hybrids a new specie and evidence for evolution would be somewhat premature if not totally bogus.


The second correction is that I completely forgot about hybrids, and this article has reminded me how such a gap of memory can lead to major misrepresentation of theory of evolution in some of my statements.

This article tries to prove the major positions of evolution outlined in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication where Darwin polishes and expands his Origins and, – contrary to what I said wrongly, - puts evolution in practical use. This fundumantal 2 volume work of Darwin is the root from which the article takes its origins.

If to imagine that the plant has evolved into a new specie in the wild, by itslef, with no human intevention, no specially made enviroment within such a short period of time of a few decades due to hybridisation, then it is unarguably clear that the new hybridised specie will produce another new spicie hybrid under the human design and intelligently induced conditions within a few years. Thus evolutionists are the only scientists who can make the weed turn into a plant bringing nice jucy berries for free along the roads we walk, which is no different from statements of Obama’s compaign. This is the practical use of science of evolution I missed when I was stating that evolution had no practical use. The article proves that all evolutionists need is their own Obama from evolution or to sell these berries to Obama. This practical use of the article and the theory of evolution explained in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication has proven to be working:

Michurin was a Russian scientist who worked during the late-1800s to improve and create new varieties of plants and introduce them to areas of severe climate in Russia (Bakharev 6). His principle that “we cannot wait for favours from Nature” and that instead, “we must wrest them from her,” was based on his interpretation that Marxist dialectical materialism taught “how to actively influence Nature and how to change it” (Bakharev 6-8). The revival of his theories in the mid-1900s was tied to the fate of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.

Lysenko claimed that plants could be 'educated' so that the changed germination time became heritable after several generations of vernalization…

Lysenko promised …that new strains of wheat and other crops with desirable traits could be produced within 3 years…

Lysenko was put in charge of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union and made responsible for ending the propagation of "harmful" ideas among Soviet scientists. Lysenko served this purpose by causing the expulsion, imprisonment, and death of hundreds of scientists and eliminating all study and research involving Mendelian genetics throughout the Soviet Union.
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I remember I have 2 posts unanswered, I will, but first I had to make sure that it is clear to everyone that evolutionists are lying in their propaganda that speciation has been observed, as well as why do they have to do so.
 
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I cannot tell you how to think. However I would trust people qualified and have expertise in their field in the field of evolution and also trust its in critics failed attempts to disprove in evolution for 150 years than to a guy/girl that has conflicting interests in evolution because of his faith.
A guy/girl that with one hand criticises the apparent lack of evidence for speciation in the effort to debunk and in other hand promotes a creator/intelligent design that has no evidence whatsoever. But of course there is no problem for the lack of evidence in HIS/HER views. Hypocrisy thy name is justone.

My personal inclination is toward atheism, that evolution has happened however justone raised some pretty good questions in my mind - not towards a faith based view of the world but towards seeing that evolutionists are becoming what they despise in theists.

Tucker Case pointed out a few (or more) pages back that justone had put a pretty good argument forward about how we view evolution / evolutionists and how it could (If I recall correctly) be shifted toward a philosophy and that started me off thinking. I need to read people like justone, simply because his/her views help me to understand my position better and he/she elaborates the questions I should be prepared to ask.

Certainly, I feel he is correct in that speciation has not been directly observed - there are other things I disagree with that were asked. One thing I try to remember when people make claims about science is that it is carried out by imperfect humans who sometimes make mistakes. One thing I try to remember when people make claims about science is that it is carried out by imperfect humans who sometimes make mistakes. As I understand it, making scientific claims does ask that you can repeat certain events - the peer review element Justone asks for proof of. As I stated in my first post, I'm no scientist but the dialogue between justone and tucker case helped me and made me think.

That's why I thanked them.
 
Why do we argue over whether it's evolution or God? Will it change the path of either camp? Likely not.
 
Why do we argue over whether it's evolution or God? Will it change the path of either camp? Likely not.

The fact is that the majority of Christians believe in evolution. For instance the Pope ordered Catholics to believe in evolution. The fact is that you and evolutionists keep on trying to re-use this old pretence that this is about God vs. evolution and this is as revolting to watch like you would be re-using the same condom over and over again.

This is Science vs. Evolution. Science has its way to take upper hand however long it make take.
 
No one was really looking for it until the theory of evolution. Why would they?


It is so untrue that I don’t know how one can make such a statement. Humans were looking at species and experimenting with them since day one. According to evolutionists they even domesticated wild animals.

"How long" would depend entirely on circumstance, but on earth it took about 2.5 billion years. The oldest forms of "life" (which were much simpler than anything we normally consider "life" today) appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and sex first evolved about 1 billion years ago.
Approximately 3.35 billion years. The first life appeared in the oceans about 3.5 billion years ago. Archaeopteryx evolved about 150 million years ago.
Show me what makes you think that it takes only 2.5 B years for an oldest form to evolve into sex.


We have been observing during all existence of humanity that asexual forms do not evolve into sexual forms even under the most harsh and unusual circumstances induced artificially. Moreover the law induced by the observation says that even one asexual form does not evolve into another asexual form even under the most harsh and unusual circumstances induced artificially. What does make you think that it takes only 2.5B years to break the observed law of nature and why it is possible to break it? What makes you abolish the rules of science?
Because A) It isn't zero, it could be some fraction less than one; and B) just because it hasn't been observed in the 150 years since humans have been looking for it doesn't mean that it's never happened in the existence of humanity. Even humans themselves have evolved into different species. Homo habilis looked very different than homo sapiens.

Keep in mind that there is no ironclad rule that it takes X number of years for Trait Y to evolve. It depends entirely on the environment and circumstance.
It's frequently been said that if you could hit the "Reset" button on the earth to return it to its primordial state, it is a virtual certainty that nothing even remotely resembling humans would evolve again. There are just too many random occurrences that affect the planet's environment.

Mathematics of what? I'm not sure what you're asking for.

There are countless examples. I'll just give you one of my favorites:
Up until the 1700s, there were lots of pepper moths in England. Most of them were white, but there were a few black ones as well. They were the same species, but a few minor genes affected the color of them. The moths often lived around white birch trees. Unsurprisingly, the white moths camouflaged better than the black moths, and were less likely to be eaten. This explains why they outnumbered the black moths.

When the Industrial Revolution began, England's new factories began producing large quantities of black soot, which stuck to the birch trees. Within just a few generations, the black moths suddenly outnumbered the white moths.



In the 1970s, England (like most developed countries) began implementing stricter pollution controls...and now white moths are making a comeback once again.

Evolution in action.
There were been black and white moth and in spite of changes in the environment and numbers there are black and white moth. Where do you see any occurrence of speciation?
You are not sure what I am asking but you are answering?

‘’A) It isn't zero, it could be some fraction less than one;’’ – is mathematics I am asking for. We don’t have to wait for a millennium to confirm the result and stages of radioactive decay even if it depends on environment and circumstances. We don’t have to see electrons “’directly’’ or wait for a millennium until decays is finished, we don’t even have apply all environment and circumstances which affect the decay ( but as we need if we need we can). From a well observed and described fraction we can estimate the mass and other parameters of an isotope a millennium ago. Changing environment we can calculate the change in outcome. We don’t observe neutrino directly and as matter of fact we know that we cannot describe it as it does not have any geometrical form or can be compared with anything we observe directly, it is rather a mathematical concept, but we cause and observe a chain nuclear reaction at will. ‘’The fractions’’ of genetic changes are quite well observed and mathematically described. For instance changes in the moth can be mathematically calculated using this tool Punnett Square Calculator or this tool https://finetti.meb.uni-bonn.de
None of the tools of course has a curve of speciation. Even if blacks exterminated all whites they wouldn’t turn into different species, they would preserve the same amount of genetically information and wouldn’t loose their ability to interbreed with whites. This is a fundamental law of nature which has come from observations and has a well defined and confirmed mathematical apparatus, - which tells us that evolution does not happen.

But even if to ignore the laws of nature and take your statements as true there are other ways to make at least some estimate. Any sane mind would see clearly that the 2 few billion years period is a ridiculously short time for any possibility of speciation or evolution. I did an estimate on DP once – it shows that roughly you would have to observe 3 new species every day only on the line from a single cell organism to T.Rex, which totally contradicts observations of “fractions” and any sanity.

And here please try to pay attention. This is the mathematical disproval of evolution. If used, please refer to authorship of justone.

Evolutionists starting from Darwin say that it takes “millennia” for speciation to happen, that’s why we don’t observe it ''directly' but only ‘’fractions’’ of it. (Please, I am trying to go slow. The next sentence constitutes the mathematical disproof of evolution). This can be true if and only if all species start and finish each proposed speciation at the same time.

That’s all. Understand? One simple sentence. The rest are just additional explanations, appendix as would call it Einstein.

This can be true if and only if all species start their slow gradual or other changes under a command “Go!”, then a “millennia” pasts and then under a command “Pop!” they pop into new species and then Go for another millennium of fractions simultaneously until the next command “Pop!” sounds for all of them. And we are somewhere in the middle of a ‘’millennium’’ so we can observe only fractions of the changes leading to speciation.

That’s all. Understand?

Such an evolution is a total delirium as it should be clear to everyone. This simple proof, a look at underlying mathematics makes Darwin’s delirium to be delirium and ‘’no go’’ from the start.

If the otherwise is proposed, that species – thousands (they say millions) of them did not follow such an absurd order, then we would see a new specie which started changes millennium ago popping out today, and tomorrow we would see a new specie which started changes a millennium and one day (or year) ago to pop, and on the day after tomorrow we would see a new specie which started changes a millennium and 2 days (or years) ago. In total, however long it takes for a new specie to pop out and however the time long or different may be for each new specie to pop we would observe them popping out at least on a yearly if not daily basis, - in the same way as we see all other laws and occurrence of Nature happening on the regular bases.

Now you can relax your attention a little bit.

Again, I'm not sure what you're implying? Are you suggesting that the scientists may have gotten the skeleton wrong, and what they think is the creature's skull is actually its ass


In case of humanoid fossils it is obviously so. But I am saying that you will see fossils of different species in the Museum, exactly like you see different species today. The “transitional’’ species are represented only as drawings inferred by the imagination of evolutionists.
If you want to debate God, there is a religion/philosophy board on this forum.

If you want to debate evolution there is a religion/philosophy board on this forum, - why are you here?
 
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You fail immediately.

First you insult intelligence of a poster, saying – don’t think, just trust evolutionists because…. they do evolutionism. It is a typical sign of a non-scientist. A physicist wouldn’t mind to explain theory of relativity to a freshman student and answer questions not doubting the intelligence of the audience, but rather his own ability to make things clear.

Nah I didn't fail, because I think you misunderstood me or I did not make myself clear. If he wants to question and challenge evolution through experiments I have no problem with that whatsoever, in fact I would encourage it. Science is an open forum with nothing to hide, where everything is debatable.
But if he doesn't want to do experiments or collect data to challenge evolution then I would suggest he rely on the experts, much as you would rely on a doctor for medical advice or a plumber on your houses water system. Note, this is my opinion.
My expertise is not in a claim but it is all in my posts. Tucker’s expert thinking is as self-evident as his ability to question 96% of DNA evolutionists are trying to pull on audience everywhere all the time.

Trying to pull? Huh?
It is the #1 argument of evolutionists, ‘’because of his faith’’, they don’t how not to go personal. Infinite Chaos exactly sees because of what. He does not have to be a scientist to see that. Every decent being does not have to be a scientist to see that Tucker’s faith is quite opposite to mine. Every decent being sees that you demonstrate again how evolutionists are blinded by their fanatical faith.

Fail.

Evolution is faith neutral everyone know that. Science is faith neutral. The only thing evolution and science are not neutral on is creationism in a theistic sense. If a person said to me the big bang was created by a supernatural being and it let things take it course. I could not really agrue against it, I would think of it highly unlikely, but I could not say with 100% certainty that this supernatural being didn't exist.

It might surprise you to know I have a christain girlfriend, who has a PHD in biology. Her faith doesn't bother me really. She of course knows species evolve and is an "evolutionist".
 
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The fact is that the majority of Christians believe in evolution. For instance the Pope ordered Catholics to believe in evolution. The fact is that you and evolutionists keep on trying to re-use this old pretence that this is about God vs. evolution and this is as revolting to watch like you would be re-using the same condom over and over again.

This is Science vs. Evolution. Science has its way to take upper hand however long it make take.
I'm not trying to do any such thing. The argument has always been God vs evolution. I can't help it if that's the case. It is what it is. Evolution may be nice to know, but it's usefulness is limited in my view. I don't think it makes a philisohpical improvement in mankind nor an technological one. Does it explain the creation of the universe? And frankly, I don't care what the Pope says, he means nothing to me. How do you explain the fact that although showing some intelligence that apes have improved themselves no further than dogs have? In fact I could argue that dogs, allowing themselves to be domesticated, have done more for "dogkind" than apes for themselves. They live among humans and are cherished, while apes are not. If man evolved out of Africa, then why don't we have pet apes now instead of dogs? I mean we have so much in common with them, right? Does the answer to that question even matter?
 
If man evolved out of Africa, then why don't we have pet apes now instead of dogs? I mean we have so much in common with them, right? Does the answer to that question even matter?

Dogs weren't domesticated to be pets, they were domesticated for work. What good would a gorilla be at sheep herding, for example?

Maybe a retrieving orangutan?

Perhaps a guard chimp?

I think most cases of domestication are a product of practicality. Apes are impractical as domesticated animals.
 
Dogs weren't domesticated to be pets, they were domesticated for work. What good would a gorilla be at sheep herding, for example?

Maybe a retrieving orangutan?

Perhaps a guard chimp?

I think most cases of domestication are a product of practicality. Apes are impractical as domesticated animals.
Why? They are so smart, right?
 
Why? They are so smart, right?

Smarts have nothing to do with domestication. Sheep are the dumbest animals I have ever dealt with in my entire life. They are unbelievably stupid. I've seen a whole herd of them try to drown themselves in fright before.They are domesticated animals though, and they were probably domesticated before dogs, in fact, they are probably a big reason FOR the domestication of dogs.

A dog, which has the speed agility and physical abilities to get ahead of the herd, can prevent that. I've seen it. And they are instinctive herding animals. Just look at the hunting styles of African wild dogs for an example. The only training that a sheep dog really require is to learn how to control itself. In other words, dogs make the perfect herding animal because they already do it. All that humans did was take the natural instincts and adapt them for our purposes.

Apes do not herd instinctively (well, chimps seem to do something similar while hunting, but it's usually entirely in trees). They are physically limited in what they can do on the ground. A dog is faster more agile and better at herding. No amount of training can overcome the physical limitations. Could an ape learn to do it? Probably. But teaching an ape to do what the dog already does instinctively is pretty stupid.

Apes are also instinctively aggressive towards other primates. Which makes domestication all the more difficult because they are less controllable. Couple that with the dog's natural adaptability to multiple environemtns and omnivorous diet compared to the apes highly specialized habitat and diet, and you make a recipe for domestication.

Intelligence means absolutely nothing in regards to domestication while the natural inclinations of the animals mean everything.
 
‘’taking the overall we consider York radiate groundsel should be described as a new specie’’…. and give it name ‘’Senecio eboracensis’’ instead of York radiate groundsel

OK. The article is devoted only to the defense of the opinion of the authors to call York radiate groundsel ‘’Senecio eboracensis’’ and a new spicie. Nobody has thought about that before, science need evolutionists to make an article. .

Huh?

Let’s take a look at what is going on:

‘’hybernicus and ‘York radiate groundsel’’ generate highly sterile progeny with S.squalidus.’’ [its parent]

Let me understand, - it does generate progeny or it does not. Do I understand English correctly - A genetic descendant or offspring Progeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ?. Somebody has to explain it to me. It is sterile or it is highly sterile? .

The quote says that York Radiate cannot mate with its parent species (squalidus), neither can another hybrid variation (not species as it can crossbreed with its parent spieces in nature) - hybernicius. York Radiate can only self pollinate to reproduce.

"Other studies have shown that S. eboracensis is reproductively isolated from its parents due to a high level of selfing, phenological separation, sterility of products of back crosses to S. squalidus and reduced fertility of products of back-crosses to S. vulgaris."

Top of page 376 states "A third fertile hybrid derivative was first recorded near York railway station (OS105 594 516) by R. J. Abbott and D. F. Marshall in 1979. The overall morphology of individuals in the population was intermediate between S. squalidus and S. vulgaris and plants were highly fertile"

So here we have a fertile new species, that cannot exchange genetic material with its parents in nature and it has visible intermediate morphology between its two intermediate species

‘’The second generation offspring of crosses between York radiate groundsel and Senecio vulgarus exhibit a significant reduction in seed set. ''

You just said that York radiate groundsel does not cross with S. vulgarus. Now you say it does. Somebody pinch me – it does or it does not?. Somebody has to explain it to me .

Pinch. No it does not say that. Generation F1 of S. vulgarus is likely either another hybrid which is infertile or a mutated pollen grain. It does not have the chromosomes to become a fertile species itself BUT it can mate with S. squalidus because it has the right set, (usually even set) of chromosomes. The result is a new species called S. eboracensis, which cannot mate with any other plant than itself.


York radiate groundsel is a hybrid, the parents are hybrids and their names are S.squalidus and S. vulgaris. And the article talks about the second generation offspring of crosses between York radiate groundsel and S. vulgarus, and says they do not produce offspring on the same page..

S. squalidus is from Silicy and S. vulgaris is native to Britain. As far as i know they are not hybrids but it wouldnt matter if they were or not since they are seperate species. As for crossbreeding with one of its parent it can (albiet weaker offspring), when forced, in lab conditions, but you should know justone if you have researched such matters that this does not define a new speices. It is whether it can breed with others or not in nature without human interference.

It cannot, due to pre-zygotic barriers. Mainly big differences between flowering times of the two species. Therefore in nature they are genetically isolated from each other.

"There are also some prezygotic breeding barriers between York radiate groundsel and S. vulgaris that reduce the frequency of inter-taxon crossing at
field sites to well below 1·5% (percentage of seed arising from intertaxon crosses relative to total number of seed collected; Lowe 1996; Lowe and Abbott, in review). These prezygotic isolating mechanisms include predominant autogamy of both taxa and substantial differences in flowering
time at field sites. All of these mechanisms have been shown to drastically reduce intertaxon crossing at sympatric sites and in common garden experiments (Lowe 1996, Lowe and Abbott, inreview)."


Even if to take that I don’t understand English, the article proves that evolutionists don’t understand what is an experiment and observation in science. Taking a limited sample from the wild and putting it under the condition that wouldn’t allow it to breed, rather than under all possible conditions, and claim that it does not breed is not how experiments are conducted.

It can't breed in the wild because they breed at different times, it is called temporal isolation. And because they cannot swap genetic information, the two species will diverge to a level that they eventually will not be able to breed in a lab anymore. Thats it, that is speciation.

Besides of that physiology of plants is very different from physiology of life. I don’t have a pdf converter to quote easy but differences in phenology mentioned are like a woman has certain periods when it cannot get pregnant from a man and limiting experiment to this period and claiming that women do not get pregnant from men is not quite scientific.

Ho ho ho ho, now. Your now saying in effect "Plants don't count or are seperate", your argument is starting to get shaky my friend. Plants are a part of life. I don't see how women having different periods has ANYTHING to do with speciation.

It would be a must for a real researcher to attempt to cross the Yorker with other Senecios and show that the offspring do not occur and do not cross with his parents, that things do not come on their circle. From the descriptions in the article it is clear that it is not a case, but the opposite is true.

Have you read it, they did that and they produced (barely fertile) offspring UNDER LAB CONDITIONS WHEN FORCED. However in nature (where it counts), they cannot produce fertile offspring due to temporal isolation.

Thus, even if the article was not totally bogus claiming totally opposite things on the same page, we see that Senecios are divided into different species by authors totally frivolously, that in all of we have one and only one specie Senecio with different strains and the Yorker quite easily and joyfully mates with other Senecios. Anyone with common sense would see that Senecios are remaining to be Senecios, all of them.

Common sense ie you right? Oh right, here we go "But GarzaUK its not turnng into a different kind of plant, like a rose". For all your bravada and knowledge it has come to the old creationist agrument of "kinds". Like I said evolution is a long process. Simply Macroevolution = Microevolution + Time.

Also I thought were debating speciation, the creation of a new species. Now I hear grumblings of "its still Senecios". I'm agruing for the creation of a new species, not a new genus.

This is a good example how evolutionists often try to manipulate with the uncertain definition of species to fit it to their beliefs. It is not the first and it is not the last example it is very common. But as E.coli bacteria remain e.coli bacteria in all experiments in the same way Senecio remain Senecio in this bogus paper. And BTW the article says that the “’new specie” reproduces with its parents and cousins and brothers. Let me quote from the article:
‘’hybernicus and ‘York radiate groundsel’’[new spicie] generate … progeny with S.squalidus.’’[parent]
‘’The second generation offspring of crosses between York radiate groundsel [new spicie] and Senecio vulgarus [parent] exhibit’’You don’t believe me? Click on the link and read the article. I couldn’t believe my eyes, too.

You know my answer to this, look above. They reproduce in a lab yes. NOT IN NATURE!! Basic Biology 101 here! You can cross a pig sperm and a sheep egg in a lab for all I care and it would produce a heathly fertile hyrbid, but it is not a new species, BECAUSE IT CANT HAPPEN IN NATURE.

Hybrids are known as a dead way, but not a way of evolution. Also it is known that the conclusion that hybrids cannot mate with their parents may be quite premature like the widely spread belief caused by limited representation in experiments:

Hybrids, can be a deadway, but not always, as the paper shows. Hybridisation is part of Speciation, and I gave you an example of it. Natural selction is only part of evolution.

‘’Several female mules have produced offspring when mated with a purebred horse or donkey.[7] Since 1527 there have been more than 60 documented cases of foals born to female mules around the world.
There are reports that a mule in China produced a foal in 1984.[8][9]
In Morocco, in early 2002, a mare mule produced a rare foal.[7]
In 2007 a mule named Kate gave birth to a mule son in Colorado.[10][11] Blood and hair samples were tested verifying that the mother was a mule and the colt was indeed her offspring.’’

Well done that is a ~ 0.0000001% success rate, 60 foals in the last 500 years. Is it enough to blend mules into their parents species or a healhty popualtion? Nope. Mules are a deadend.

I am sorry, scientists, you've really made me cry, but I am afraid to call this particular hybrid which is a product of other hybrids a new specie and evidence for evolution would be somewhat premature if not totally bogus.

It is a new species because it does not breed in nature with its parents or any other species, it is genetically excluded. It is evidence of speication.

Also it is noticable you said SCIENTISTS, not EVOLUTIONISTS. This is not about Science vs Evolution at all justone!! This about about your faith isn't it, you have a vendetta against science in general. You don't give a damn about the scientific method. Didn't you say in one post you wouldn't buy a house near a scientist? You hatred must be terrible.


I remember I have 2 posts unanswered, I will, but first I had to make sure that it is clear to everyone that evolutionists are lying in their propaganda that speciation has been observed, as well as why do they have to do so.

You STILL haven't answered my question. Why is the scientific community (atheistic and religious) lying about evolution?? Stop trying to avoid it justone, have the courage of your convictions.
 
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I'm not trying to do any such thing. The argument has always been God vs evolution. I can't help it if that's the case. It is what it is. Evolution may be nice to know, but it's usefulness is limited in my view. I don't think it makes a philisohpical improvement in mankind nor an technological one. Does it explain the creation of the universe? And frankly, I don't care what the Pope says, he means nothing to me. How do you explain the fact that although showing some intelligence that apes have improved themselves no further than dogs have? In fact I could argue that dogs, allowing themselves to be domesticated, have done more for "dogkind" than apes for themselves. They live among humans and are cherished, while apes are not. If man evolved out of Africa, then why don't we have pet apes now instead of dogs? I mean we have so much in common with them, right? Does the answer to that question even matter?


1. Whether or not religious literalists believe evolution is in conflict with a belief in God has nothing to do with the validity of evolution as a theory or for that matter, a fundamental law of biology.

2. As to the "usefulness" of evolution. It is one of the two fundamental laws of biology and is the fundamental basis for all modern life sciences.

3. What improvements should a chimp make? They are perfectly adapted to their environments. In fact, their ancestors out competed us in the jungles which forced our ancestors to move to the African savanna. Essentially, we have adapted (improved) to a life on the savanna as hunter / gatherers, while they adapted (improved) to a life in the tropical forests. Throw a group of humans out into the tropical forests with no clothes, no tools, and let them compete against those apes and see which ones will need "improvement".

4. The level of intelligence possessed by the great apes is an impediment to domestication. Making them pets would be more akin to enslavement than anything else.
 
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GarzaUK, I don’t have time these days to answer to all this long ….. of yours. I still have Ikari in the line. I will try to get to main points which may be interesting for Tucker and IC, but as far as to the time I have today, please, please, try to understand and answer the simple question – you know the procedure, please follow it, please –

How do you and the authors of your bogus article know that S. squalidus and S. vulgaris are parents of York Radiate?
 
Throw a group of humans out into the tropical forests with no clothes, no tools, and let them compete against those apes and see which ones will need "improvement".

It'll be the chimps. We can make tools from rocks, and use those tools to make spears and arrows that'll put the chimps out of business.

4. The level of intelligence possessed by the great apes is an impediment to domestication. Making them pets would be more akin to enslavement than anything else.

No, that's ridiculous. The reason we don't domesticate apes is because too many of us have seen the Planet of the Apes movies.

Kidding aside, apes have too many dominance issues, don't have traits we find suitable or desirable enough to domesticate for, and are otherwise economically non-viable.

Dogs were domesticated because wolves are natural pack animals and people found they could usurp the role of pack leader with ease, and dogs could be trained for useful hunting and guard dog tasks with ease, and they also made a convenient spare meat supply when the hunting got difficult.
 
It'll be the chimps. We can make tools from rocks, and use those tools to make spears and arrows that'll put the chimps out of business.

There is a reason why we left the jungle for the savanna in the first place. Their ancestors out competed our ancestors.
 
GarzaUK, I don’t have time these days to answer to all this long ….. of yours. I still have Ikari in the line. I will try to get to main points which may be interesting for Tucker and IC, but as far as to the time I have today, please, please, try to understand and answer the simple question – you know the procedure, please follow it, please –

How do you and the authors of your bogus article know that S. squalidus and S. vulgaris are parents of York Radiate?

I understand justone, take your time.

To you last question, it is simple. Half of York radiate's genomes is S. squalidus, the other half is S. vulgaris. York Radiates genome is a combination of the two parent species genomes.
 
There is a reason why we left the jungle for the savanna in the first place. Their ancestors out competed our ancestors.


Maybe. Maybe not. Total speculation I'm afraid. Although you would be correct in saying the forests in Africa shrank during the start of man's evolutionary history.

A fun fact though, maybe Europeans would recognise this better than Americans (you weather is better than ours), but what we consider room temperature, the heat we are at most comfortable is the average heat of the savanna. It is the reason why Northern Europeans seek out warmer weather during the summer. No matter what the weather we always seek out a temperature of at least 23C.
 
There is a reason why we left the jungle for the savanna in the first place. Their ancestors out competed our ancestors.

Not to mention this:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZn5nWIj_g"]YouTube - Monkey taunts tigers[/ame]

How many humans do you know that can pull that off?
 
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