Pyrpolizer wrote:There is natural evolution but imo man was not a naturally evolved ape.
It's a product of genetic Engineering.(actually multiple ones)
One day we may learn to genetically Engineer ourselves too and that will be a fascinating breakthrough.
GIG is right. GR is wrong. My son works in genetics and he assures me that nature is always experimenting, where survival of the best adapted is the main rule.
The point GR ignores is that nature is not in a fixed state, which does not require adaption of species to enable the specie to continue to survive but is always changing, where continuity requires adaption to the states of change. That said, even if "nature" was fixed some adaptions might make better use of it, and propogate better. As it is nature is not a being that cares about species. Some catastrophe happens and wipes out a large percentage of species, but give it a few hundred million years and there are lots of new ones, filling the spaces. Some may even share some developed characteristics with an extinct species, as at different times and places that particular type of development worked well.
Man is naturally evolved. The researchers keep finding specimens of ancient hominids that show this. We are not however decended from Apes as they are our distant cousins, having a common ancestor probably some 7 mybp. We and apes represent the latest evolutionary developments from that comon ancestor, through diverging branches. We each found different niches which our specific adaptions best suited, and developed from there.
Probably some 600 mya we had a common ancestor with the dinosaurs. It would not be reconiseable as either human or dinosaur, but evolved. Thetefore the birds, thought to be the last surviving devlopments of the dinosaur family, are our even more distant cousins than apes. They too found mechanisms to continue.
