Evolution

[LoftyLottie]

This is something I have firmly believed for a long time.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20081007/tuk -human-evolution-coming-to-a-halt-6323e80.html

What do you think?

[jake-the-peg]

He said fathers are getting older when they start but are stopping earlier - you can read that either way.

So with more people living to reproduce who would otherwise have died we are seeing more variation no?

In either case I think there are 2 glaring assumptions.

a) That what happens in the 14% or so of a species has a significant effect of the whole. There really aren't that many of us under western medecine.

b) That individuals reproduce at random within the population ( the world becoming brown)

[LoftyLottie]

Did anyone here him being interviewed on Radio 2 this evening (Chris Evans!)? Extremely interesting. I still think he may well be right. A lot of it was far too complex for little me to understand though - a highly intelligent man.

Apparently people with blonde and red hair have only been around for 5,000 years and originally only occured north of Birmingham!

And thank you AOG for telling me I'm a waste of space!!! ;o)
As I said in the thread, I had a touch of the 'Legends'. I really don't know how it happened.

[birdie1971]

WaldoMcFroog - I could not agree more. So few people seem to understand the difference between a common or everyday theory (eg. I think he did it because of X, Y and Z) and a scientific �theory�. Unfortunately the scientific community has chosen to use the word �theory� to describe many of its fundamental scientific principals and this has prompted many people to say, �� well, it�s just a theory��. They could not be more wrong.

To everyone else - To most people, a theory is just an idea which may or may not be true. To a scientist a theory is something very different indeed. To most people, a �law� would trump a mere �theory�. But in scientific terminology, the relationship is the other way around. A scientific �law� describes what something does, often through the use of equations. The �theory� explains WHY this happens.

For example. Newton described gravitational �law� as being, and I�m paraphrasing here, �an object will accelerate to earth at 9.81 metres, per second, per second.�

Einstein�s Theory of Relativity explains WHY this happens.

Darwin�s �theory� of evolution is exactly the same. It explains why animals exhibit the characteristic biological traits they do and explains where they came from. It�s a scientific theory that has been in existence for more then 100 years and has never been �disproved�. To dismiss Darwin�s Theory of Evolution as a mere �theory� is to totally misunderstand the scientific method.

[drsoul]

Firstly, I reckon we could all benefit from a shift in how we interpret what it is to be human. I would recommend Ken Carey's "Third Millennium", as a good place to start.
Also, check out the "Mayan Prophecy 2012" website. There are some very interesting ideas there.....There's one in particular, which talks about our planetary orbit and how it brings us through space dimensions that seem to accelerate evolution. I know that's a bit Arthur C Clarkish...but!
Based on the maths, earth last passed into one of these zones around 5000 years ago, and in the space of 100 years mankind developed written language, discovered how to build pyramids, etc, etc,etc.
Almost sounds a bit like "What have the cosmic dimensions ever done for us?"

[cbr600rr]

why dont the goverment remove some of the sunk ships out of the sea 2 stop compensate for sea levels rising....displacement its called

[cbr600rr]

why dont the goverment remove some old sunk ships out of the sea 2 drop the water level?