Why evolution is bs

evolution is or should be or would be observable, humans could isolate a group of a species and study it's genetic profile to see if mutations are happening and evolution is in fact happening even over a 10 year or less time period, especially even something like bacteria which reproduces extremely quickly.

also evolution explains how life might occur in such a universe,

it doesn't explain the universe or the laws of universe which evolution and all things supposedly work by (evolution isn't real)

Viruses mutate at an incredible rate. They "evolve".

a virus was never seen developing any traits that were not already in its dna

viruses ADAPT according to the limits of their dna... never evolve.

evolution is or should be or would be observable, humans could isolate a group of a species and study it's genetic profile to see if mutations are happening and evolution is in fact happening even over a 10 year or less time period, especially even something like bacteria which reproduces extremely quickly.

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Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows.

In just a few decades the 5-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) lizards have developed a completely new gut structure, larger heads, and a harder bite, researchers say.


In 1971, scientists transplanted five adult pairs of the reptiles from their original island home in Pod Kopiste to the tiny neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru, both in the south Adriatic Sea.

Genetic testing on the Pod Mrcaru lizards confirmed that the modern population of more than 5,000 Italian wall lizards are all descendants of the original ten lizards left behind in the 1970s.

After scientists transplanted the reptiles, the Croatian War of Independence erupted, ending in the mid-1990s. The researchers couldn't get back to island because of the war, Irschick said.

In 2004, however, tourism began to open back up, allowing researchers access to the island laboratory.

"We didn't know if we would find a lizard there. We had no idea if the original introductions were successful," Irschick said.

What they found, however, was shocking.

Fast-Track Evolution

The new habitat once had its own healthy population of lizards, which were less aggressive than the new implants, Irschick said.

The new species wiped out the indigenous lizard populations, although how it happened is unknown, he said.

The transplanted lizards adapted to their new environment in ways that expedited their evolution physically, Irschick explained.

Pod Mrcaru, for example, had an abundance of plants for the primarily insect-eating lizards to munch on. Physically, however, the lizards were not built to digest a vegetarian diet.

Researchers found that the lizards developed cecal valves—muscles between the large and small intestine—that slowed down food digestion in fermenting chambers, which allowed their bodies to process the vegetation's cellulose into volatile fatty acids.

"They evolved an expanded gut to allow them to process these leaves," Irschick said, adding it was something that had not been documented before. "This was a brand-new structure."

Along with the ability to digest plants came the ability to bite harder, powered by a head that had grown longer and wider.

If we evolved from apes then why are we still looking at them?

Dang! Beat me to it... a clear example of what mutation and evolution is all about.

This one shuts up most tards, minus that dgn guy.

Common misconception from layman. We didn't came from apes, we share a common ancestor. Whatever was before, it was not a human, neither an ape, although physically it might look like a "mix" of us and them(apes)

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Elysia chlorotica is the best example of evolution without mutation in my opinion.

You are thinking of chimps, humans most surely come from an ape that was the common ancestor of both chimps and humans. Hell, humans are classified as apes biologically.

Yup. He is a JW. Most likely a child abuser. If JW church ends, he will end his opportunities on raping children and will be portrayed as a molester publicly.

Nope, YOU are the one thinking of chimps. Chimps, gorillas, orangutans and us, all descend from a common ancestor.

Nope, YOU are the one thinking of chimps. Chimps, gorillas, orangutans and us, all descend from a common ancestor.

How so?

How so?

We share different common ancestors with each though. The last common ancestor of humans and chimps lives around 7 million years ago, and the last common ancestor of the gorilla and humans lived around 10 million years, but in both cases were still a species of ape, just not any living ones.

evolution is or should be or would be observable, humans could isolate a group of a species and study it's genetic profile to see if mutations are happening and evolution is in fact happening even over a 10 year or less time period, especially even something like bacteria which reproduces extremely quickly.

Their photosynthetic genes did not come from mutations but from horizontal gene transfer with algae.

Still the facts are:
We do share a common ancestor(even if a distant one)
Whatever was this common ancestor, it was not human and it was not an ape(as we know it).

I'm pretty sure this has been "disproven".

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The sea slug Elysia chlorotica offers a unique opportunity to study the evolution of a novel function (photosynthesis) in a complex multicellular host. Elysia chlorotica harvests plastids (absent of nuclei) from its heterokont algal prey, Vaucheria litorea. The “stolen” plastids are maintained for several months in cells of the digestive tract and are essential for animal development. The basis of long-term maintenance of photosynthesis in this sea slug was thought to be explained by extensive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from the nucleus of the alga to the animal nucleus, followed by expression of algal genes in the gut to provide essential plastid-destined proteins. Early studies of target genes and proteins supported the HGT hypothesis, but more recent genome-wide data provide conflicting results. Here, we generated significant genome data from the E. chlorotica germ line (egg DNA) and from V. litorea to test the HGT hypothesis. Our comprehensive analyses fail to provide evidence for alga-derived HGT into the germ line of the sea slug. Polymerase chain reaction analyses of genomic DNA and cDNA from different individual E. chlorotica suggest, however, that algal nuclear genes (or gene fragments) are present in the adult slug. We suggest that these nucleic acids may derive from and/or reside in extrachromosomal DNAs that are made available to the animal through contact with the alga. These data resolve a long-standing issue and suggest that HGT is not the primary reason underlying long-term maintenance of photosynthesis in E. chlorotica. Therefore, sea slug photosynthesis is sustained in as yet unexplained ways that do not appear to endanger the animal germ line through the introduction of dozens of foreign genes.

In time we will learn that we do not have alien DNA. That we are a part of an intelligent and intentional design.

Animals can not have such mutations and even if they did they would be slight. Carbon dating is wrong. Science is a child. A spoiled child observing something it doesn't have a clue of understanding.

VERY hard. The other way around thou, its much, much more likely. In time, there will be enough knowledge spread among religious fanatics and they will have to abandon their mysticism set of mind.

And BTW, evolution has NOTHING to do with "alien DNA". We are animals, no different than any other animal we share the planet with. There is no "meaning of life", there is no "sin", there is no "savior" or heaven and hell. Religion is what is holding humanity to evolve.

I'm pretty sure this has been "disproven".

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The sea slug Elysia chlorotica offers a unique opportunity to study the evolution of a novel function (photosynthesis) in a complex multicellular host. Elysia chlorotica harvests plastids (absent of nuclei) from its heterokont algal prey, Vaucheria litorea. The “stolen” plastids are maintained for several months in cells of the digestive tract and are essential for animal development. The basis of long-term maintenance of photosynthesis in this sea slug was thought to be explained by extensive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from the nucleus of the alga to the animal nucleus, followed by expression of algal genes in the gut to provide essential plastid-destined proteins. Early studies of target genes and proteins supported the HGT hypothesis, but more recent genome-wide data provide conflicting results. Here, we generated significant genome data from the E. chlorotica germ line (egg DNA) and from V. litorea to test the HGT hypothesis. Our comprehensive analyses fail to provide evidence for alga-derived HGT into the germ line of the sea slug. Polymerase chain reaction analyses of genomic DNA and cDNA from different individual E. chlorotica suggest, however, that algal nuclear genes (or gene fragments) are present in the adult slug. We suggest that these nucleic acids may derive from and/or reside in extrachromosomal DNAs that are made available to the animal through contact with the alga. These data resolve a long-standing issue and suggest that HGT is not the primary reason underlying long-term maintenance of photosynthesis in E. chlorotica. Therefore, sea slug photosynthesis is sustained in as yet unexplained ways that do not appear to endanger the animal germ line through the introduction of dozens of foreign genes.

If we evolved from apes then why are we still looking at them?