Comments on: Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:16:00 +0000

I don't think anyone said that humans came from chimps.

By: ___

___ — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:24:00 +0000

Anyone who tries to say chimpanzies chose to not evolve any further does not know anything about evolution. Humans and Chimps have a common Ancestor, but we did not come from chimps, this much as been proven by science.

Like Jeff said, evolution is random, a freak accident that happens over millions upon millions of years. You will never see a chimp give birth to a human (especially since humans didn't come from chimps, but if they did…) you will see something that begins to look more and more like a human each generation (possibly) until you get a human. Evolution might just choose to take a different course with chimps than they did with humans. Like Jeff's blog post says, it is easy for a scientist to understand, but for everyone else, it can be confusing.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:58:00 +0000

Maybe it's because the humans kept eating their brains as a delicacy.

By: Jeff Milner

Jeff Milner — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:31:00 +0000

Evolutionary mutations are (as far as I know) random. The chimps arrived at the state they are in today by random mutations. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the theory to question "why the chimpanzies found no advantage in evolving any further".

By: Bob Milner

Bob Milner — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:43:00 +0000

If you tell me those animals that didn't progress are perfect the way they are then I'll ask you, why we didn't stay that way ourselves. Did we suffer from about three and a half billion bits of bad luck?

By: Bob Milner

Bob Milner — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:34:00 +0000

Did the scientists try to explain why the chimpanzies found no advantage in evolving any further. Why would further evolution be an advantage to humans and not to chimpanzies? It seems logical to me that "any" species would benefit by increasing their intelligence. Some animals in spite of billions of years of chances, have gone absolutely nowhere.