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Orivince
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What is evolution for you? (please no copying out of dictionaries or investigating before you post)
I will not argue against them because what you think is what you think.

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thisisnotanalt
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I don't have a definition of it due to my lack of believing the concept of it.


Soo . . . you don't want to know what it is because you don't think it's true . . . wow is all I can say. Wow.
Freakenstein
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See, this is exactly why we always win in debates. We know what we are talking about and still win.

WexMajor82
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I see that when I play this game following your rules, appearently you won't have any comeback.
Oh, I know why!
Because I belive that.
And this makes it true!
Also learn to read.

adios194
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Soo . . . you don't want to know what it is because you don't think it's true . . . wow is all I can say. Wow.

I'm sorry if I have sounded like i'm a know it all. I would love to know your and others views, on evolution and other topics. So please tell me what you define evolution as.
adios194
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I see that when I play this game following your rules, appearently you won't have any comeback.
Oh, I know why!
Because I belive that.
And this makes it true!
Also learn to read.

Learn to read? That makes no sense, learn to spell. If you want I will point out all your mistakes. Also, don't belive me bro!!!
Freakenstein
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I believe this one. If the egg came first then the embryo would die due to the lack of warmth, thus two chicken came first and mated to create an egg.


How this is set apart from Evolutionist views is that this one involves chickens already being there to care for the egg. How did those chickens get there? Spontaneous creation. Our views are gradual creation, whereas each generation of animals are incrementally different. The parents of the chicken were much too slightly not one. If you looked back the time line, you would find that the generations would lead up to a common ancestor of the chickens. But if you didn't understand what Evolution, Natural Selection, and Survival of the Fittest are, then you would probably think I'm spewing out nonsensical flab.
thisisnotanalt
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I'm sorry if I have sounded like i'm a know it all. I would love to know your and others views, on evolution and other topics. So please tell me what you define evolution as.


There is one correct definition of evolution. One. O. N. E. Change over time, natural selection stretched out over hundreds of thousands of years.

Natural selection and evolution are the same thing on a different scale. That is not opinion, that is fact.
adios194
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@Alt, I get that, I thought you were going to go in depth though. Isn't that just scraping the surface?
@Freakenstein, I get that view.

Moe
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I don't have a definition of it due to my lack of believing the concept of it.


The definition of evolution is not a matter of opinion, its a word with a definition. It doesn't matter if you "believe" the "concept". Its also be proven to the point we can call it fact, at least here on Earth anyways.
goumas13
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Evolution is the change of inherited characteristics of a population of animals through time.

BigNick60
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If what is being asked is our own take on evolution almost in a v.s. intelligent design kind of way, here is my two cents. Evolution is not something I would take at definition of growing wings or becoming a new species or something like that. Adaptation due to enviornment I can see happening, but that is not evolution. Monkeys using tools is not a form of evolution to me, but as always just my opinion. One could also play the card of if we evolved from a monkey or some other species that resembles a monkey or gorilla, then why are there still mokeys and gorillas? Were we just that far ahead of the curve? Intelligent design makes more sense to me, and I find it mush easier to believe. Lets see how many people pick me apart for this, but like I said before, just my opinion and it is always subject to change through debate and discussion.

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Adaptation due to enviornment I can see happening,


Yeah basically it is.

Monkeys using tools is not a form of evolution to me, but as always just my opinion.


No but the process that allowed the brain to develop to the point of being able to figure out and use tools is.

One could also play the card of if we evolved from a monkey or some other species that resembles a monkey or gorilla, then why are there still mokeys and gorillas?


Not really no. As the species we had a common ancestor it evolved at some point taking two separate evolutionary paths. One group losing a tail and developing a more complex brain the other didn't require this and stayed closer to the original template. Over time this happens again. This time one group became less hairy and develops an even more complex brain structure. The other again not requiring this and stayed closer to the template of being tailless and hairy.

So it's not that we are more evolved then monkeys or chips or gorillas, it's that we are evolved differently.
samy
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Ahh!! Creationists!

Ahh! Evolutionists!

D:

Run away from the flame wars RUN!!!

thisisnotanalt
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Samo, if you think this is a flamewar you should run away from your computer and go live inside a sub sandwich or something >

@Alt, I get that, I thought you were going to go in depth though. Isn't that just scraping the surface?


Yes, but it's a definition that fits all of evolution. It has a lot more details, but the main thing to know that defines evolution as a whole is that it is natural selection looked at over a long period of time - natural selection is generation-to-generation evolution.
BigNick60
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So it's not that we are more evolved then monkeys or chips or gorillas, it's that we are evolved differently.


So we just got lucky that our ancestors took the evolutionary road that they did? We are on the same step of the ladder as other primates? Why wouldnt they evolve in the same direction as us to better their side of the species?
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