I have this really strange question.
If you are familiar with Donkeys, you may have observed that the male donkey is endowed with a remarkably long penis.
Remarkably long. Say most of a meter.
This uber-long-penis enables him to mate with female donkeys despite the awkwardness of their mounting position.
When donkeys evolved from whatever, how did it just so happen that the male donkey came equipped with the uber-long penis he needed to impregnate the female donkey? Or did donkeys evolve several times, then die out repeated due to lack of an uber-tallywacker until finally one day donkeys appeared with the impressive equipment in question?
Also, if the first male donkey evolved in Kazakistan and the first female donkey evolved in Ireland, how did they hook up?
Perhaps they just mated with whatever parent species they evolved from that was close at hand, I suppose, like Donkeys and Horses will. Um, of course the offspring of a Donkey and Horse is called a Mule, and there is a reason that the word "Mule" is also a synonym for sterility.
BTW, I have this screenplay that was written by a million monkeys banging on a million typwriters, I wonder if you think its any good:
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The monkeys claim its a Broadway adaptation of a Shakespeare play, but I have my doubts.
My point in all this silliness is: while I don't claim to have a full understanding of all the details of how life came to be in its present form, I do believe that without the guiding hand of an omnisapient Creator, advanced life forms are improbable.
Some scientist seem to agree:
Barrow and Tipler [30] review the consensus among such biologists that the evolutionary path from primitive Cambrian chordates, e.g. Pikaia, to Homo sapiens was a highly improbable event. For example, the large brains of humans have marked adaptive disadvantages, requiring as they do an expensive metabolism, a long gestation period, and a childhood lasting more than 25% of the average total life span. Other improbable features of humans include:
Being the only extant bipedal land (non-avian) vertebrate. Combined with an unusual eye-hand coordination, this permits dextrous manipulations of the physical environment with the hands;
A vocal apparatus far more expressive than that of any other mammal, enabling speech. Speech makes it possible for humans to interact cooperatively, to share knowledge, and to acquire a culture;
The capability of formulating abstractions to a degree permitting the invention of mathematics, and the discovery of science and technology. Keep in mind how recently humans acquired anything like their current scientific and technological sophistication.
G.