>evolution is possible because genes are constantly, randomly changing. >stays the same for 500 million years

>evolution is possible because genes are constantly, randomly changing
>stays the same for 500 million years
your move, atheists

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Definitely not an atheist, but a simple answer is that it didn't need to change all that much because it was good the way it is.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    he has been perfect for 500 million years, so no need to evolve, check mate muslims

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nah, he just couldn't exploit the other ways of living because of the pressure from the other marine animals and his branches have been eradicated geological age by geological age even in his most suited environment.

      you are just seeing a moment of one species very slowly going extinct.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        he says he's fine, i believe him

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I believe that selection is independent of evolution, but evolution is dependent on selection.
    Pre-organic selection involves the biased creation of chemical machines that catalyze their own creation. Search autocatalytic reactions for more, I'm not a chemist. This also isn't incredibly relevant to my argument, but I think it's good background when thinking about evolution and selection.
    This can also be generalized to other objects. A cup has not changed much throughout human history, as its shape is well optimized for the task. Before the cup, there was a niche need for the cup, and after, that niche was filled.
    Likewise for the horseshoe crab: it was selected for by evolution as there was clearly a niche for a horseshoe crab. Its design was optimized by evolution, and once the niche was filled, it didn't need to go further. Think of it as a highly optimized design. I'm sure there are small adjustments along the way, in the same way that some cups now have handles. Alligators haven't changed much since just after the mass extinction event that killed dinosaurs, and there are a couple other lizard species who lived 250 million years ago.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Evolutionism is a fairy tale for sinners who want to explain our existence without a Creator to whom they're held accountable.

    https://trueorigin.org/abio.php

    It's also funny how atheists will say "many religion therefore I'm right" while ignoring the fact that almost all religions have a Creator God or creator gods and they're in the extremely small minority with their beliefs that aren't based on anything other than blind faith in soience which now says boys can become women.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >blind faith in evidence based facts widely accepted by the smartest of people
      >Nah that's fricking dumb trust this book written by some guy named Josh a couple thousand years ago lmao

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >written by some guy named Josh
        he was the ORIGINAL Josh. certainly he must have intimate knowledge about the creation of the universe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If the Christian God were real they would have intervened in Afghanistan, instead the one true faith prevailed. Allahu akbar

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        God has no relation with the mutt golems

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Primitive athropod from the cambrain evolved for a smal and specific niche, survives on it despite masses changes. Unable to compete with other more advanced athropods. Every major change to its bodyplan, would it both unable to compete with the more asvanced arthopods, but also with the other hirseshoe crabs.
    Evolution selects against a diffrent bodyplan.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There are many examples of bilateral symmetry in nature, not just among animals but also plants. If intelligent design were a flawed theory, then we would expect to see far fewer instances of bilateral symmetry. The fact that we see bilateral symmetry so often is actually evidence in favor of intelligent design.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But there are many reasons why bilateral symmetry would evolve that don’t involve intelligent design. For example, if a land animal were lopsided, how would it even be able to move?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      why the frick should an intelligent designer favor symmetry over asymmetry?

      are you fricking stupid?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Redundancy.
        Two organs are better than one.
        Spare kidney, spare lung, extra eye (STEREOSCOPIC VISION BONUS)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Man, that the mathamticly most effecient way to grow large and complex shapes, is favoured in a provess determinated by mathematic likelyhood prooves that it was acctually a dude just inventing stuff

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Are you trying to communicate?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Except that's not true at all because the modern family of horseshoe crabs originates from the Triassic, while the four living horseshoe crab species that exist today are divided between three separate genera. There is also no indication in the fossil record of when each of the four species originated, but in general, their dispersal around the world and their evolution seems to have been influenced greatly by factors such as the movement of the continents.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >evolution is possible because genes are constantly, randomly changing
    are you a creationist or just a regular moron?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >genes mutate
    >new changes are worse
    >it cant compete with old horseshoe crabs
    >dies off

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the animal is unchanged
      >the animal is perfect
      typical normie misunderstanding

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're gonna be changed and imperfect after I frick you

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >what is evolutionary pressure

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's because this creature is clearly already perfect, therefore no reason to ever change

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't know if it stayed the same. It might have gained more spikes, how would you know?

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You forgot about the selection part in evolution.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >genes have always been randomly changing those 500 million years
    >only the physical body shape stays the same
    Truly the perfect being

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    natures version of "if it ain't broke don't fix it"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >crabs intensify

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It found a niche which wasn't worth leaving. If there's no evolutionary pressure to change, then strange offspring just get out competed again and again by the original design. That's why everything uses DNA/RNA, all the same amino acids and proteins, the same cellular organelles, why animals all have bilateral symmetry, and various other commonalities exist throughout life. When a really good solution is landed on, a feature often becomes locked in place like a billiard ball falling in a pocket.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >why animals all have bilateral symmetry

      Um no sweatie...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/6wyDtwK.jpg

        >animals all have bilateral symmetry
        *blocks your path*

        https://i.imgur.com/og8u3Us.jpg

        >why animals all have bilateral symmetry
        Check your privilege.

        If you can't see the symmetry in these then maybe you're moronic.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          go ahead and draw a line of symmetry for us, this should be interesting

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >sponge
            Pic related. Most sponges have some symmetry. I just learned that it's called radial symmetry. Some sponges don't have large structural symmetry, but sponges don't even have real organs so they're the exception which proves the rule. Even back with them, the most absolute primitive animals which can only even be detected as such with a lot of scrutiny, even they have some symmetries.
            >crab
            Oh so because humans only have one liver I guess we have no symmetry?
            >fish
            Bisect it from mouth to tail on the vertical axis.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Bisect it from mouth to tail on the vertical axis.
              you'll have one half with zero eyes and one half with two

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Be less moronic

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                a flounder isn't symmetrical no matter which way you cut it

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Get fricked bruh.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Young flounders and their larvae are symmetrical though, it's only once they reach adulthood that they develop their unique asymmetrical features, with the migration of the eyes. This is a fascinating process, but it's one that is based on the bilateral body plan. Adult flounders don't 'cease to be symmetrical' when they reach adulthood. They are, like all other fish, bilaterally symmetrical except with acquired asymmetry. It's the same reason why we don't classify people that have scoliosis as 'asymmetrical organisms'. Likewise

                https://i.imgur.com/6wyDtwK.jpg

                >animals all have bilateral symmetry
                *blocks your path*

                Is a symmetrical organism even if it presents features that break their body symmetry.

                Light asymmetry is something not too uncommon in the animal kingdom, but most animals that are heavily asymmetrical (like the flounder) normally have a very good reason to be that way, like being an ambush predator that both hunts and escapes other predators by burying in marine substrate.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I just learned
              you big motherfricker

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Mate, the guy said all animals have bilateral symmetry, he's just plain wrong.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                At a certain point, all successful animals started having it. Shit like starfish and sponges are only in the class of "technically an animal", and for fricks sake they still have symmetry. Picking this out to moan over like it invalidates anything is pure autism and has dragged the conversation far away from the original point.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Starfish, seaurchin and co. The Echinoderms are not "only technicly animals". They are infact quite closely related to verterbrates. Much, much closer then arthropods or the moluscs. They not only evolved from a bilateral ancestor.
                But are still bilateral today, in their larval stage.
                Unlike sponges, they have complex organs, with diffrent cell types. Like all other higher animal.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                i mean it still does, just like a human; if you have radial symmetry, you still have bilateral symmetry, but not all bilateral symmetrical animals have radial symmetry, likes squares and rectangles

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Are you moronic mate?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/8KGOkrD.jpg

                Are you moronic mate?

                I know those look radial, but hear me out, these are very much all bilateral organisms. Not only do the larvae of echinoderms present clear bilateral symmetry, but their closest relatives are all bilateral organisms like hemichordates and other basal chordates.

                The form they present as adults is mostly due to their lifestyle, presenting very limited motion and mostly feeding either on algae or filtering water, like sea lilies. They are far from the only organisms that develop in this way, since there are plenty of primitive bilateral organisms that have similar lifestyles to sponges and other non-bilateral organisms and thus end up having a very similar body plan to them, however, they are still bilateral nonetheless.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/6wyDtwK.jpg

        >animals all have bilateral symmetry
        *blocks your path*

        https://i.imgur.com/og8u3Us.jpg

        >why animals all have bilateral symmetry
        Check your privilege.

        Checkmate gaythetsis

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >It found a niche which wasn't worth leaving. If there's no evolutionary pressure to change, then strange offspring just get out competed again and again by the original design.

      slightly wrong.
      genes never have a concept of a niche which wasn't "worth leaving".
      genes always mutate and let animals bearing them look for other niches.
      And "evolutionary pressure" is what works against a species to filter out its genetic diversity to fit in such niches so that only or mostly the individuals with certain characteristics survive.

      but horseshoe crabs are unable to regain their diversity to shrink in the first place for hundreds of millions of years as their basic design is not suited to the present environment, which is sometimes called deadend of evolution.

      similar phenomena go as well for crocodiles.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        For all we know it had descendants who managed to leave that niche, and we're just seeing those that remained.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it's statistically impossible for any lineage to remain the same for so long due to constant genetic drift

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            then why have hagfish stayed the same, and theyre way more complex than horseshoe crab

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >then why have hagfish stayed the same
              because evolution isn't real you gullible little lamb

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Today's horseshoe crabs have slight differences but anything too different was swiftly outcompeted, killed, or moved away to become a new species of horseshoe crab. the idea that they are totally unchanged is soience. Kind of like purpose in evolution (a trait must be useful to evolve bullshit) and the denial of the hybridization theory of human evolution (where we either descend from a rare ape-pig, or we descend from an extremely old lineage that hybridized with both apes and pigs due to being kinky, and degenerated each time as the original species went extinct with only the ape hybrids regaining some of their intelligence)

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Oh yes soience. All supposed human ancestors were obligatory bipeds that could not have been quadrupeds without discomfort, just not efficient ones, so they still say that the evolution of bipedalism was gradual.

              Same people insist horseshoe crabs are unchanged despite ancient specimens being different species. It's "unchanged" in a different way, they twist the words and expect others to keep up, unaware that normies can't keep up. Scientists are poor communicators and they know it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >All supposed human ancestors were obligatory bipeds
                Because we have fossils dating back to when pan and Australopithine apes split off from each other displaying varying degrees of it. Most apes are capable of some level of bipedalism. Having one branch (or several) get really REALLY good at it isn't a stretch.

                >Same people insist horseshoe crabs are unchanged despite ancient specimens being different species.

                "Unchanged" and "mostly the same" do not have the same meaning. you can find the inverse holds true as well. Dingos, mastiffs, Chihuahuas and retrievers are all classified as Canis Familiaris, despite the massive morphological and behavioral differences between them, and that's only a few thousand years of selective breeding.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The evidence we have shows that the last commen ancestor of all apes was a aboreal bipeds (like gibbons). And that chimpanzes, Gorilas and Orangutans evolved their Qudrapedal knuckle walking independent of each other.
                The ancestors of humans likely never develop knuckle walking. Despite it would making sense, since all close living relative of us are knuckle walkers.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What's the chance of life appearing in this universe, according to stats?
            Did it happen anyway?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >as their basic design is not suited to the present environment,
        Why not?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's not of the result of its anatomical analysis, but is proved by the number of xiphosuran species in the past, which has gradually dropped its number from thousands or millions in the carboniferous period to only 4 in present.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            But…that isn’t how this works. Those other species got outdone by other species. Like everyone used horse and buggy and then the car came around, it became successful enough that the automobile replaced the buggy by and large, but horse and buggy still exists because for its purpose as it is now it does it better than a car. Could the horse and buggy become completely eradicated? Sure. Could it have a resurgence? With gas prices how they are maybe. But I doubt you are going to convince that couple on a date sitting in the back of an old cutlass supreme is more romantic than the horse drawn carriage through Central Park.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Those other species got outdone by other species.
              crucially wrong.
              Those other species got outdone and eradicated mostly by other non-xiphosuran species unlike the archaic humans.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >they got outdone by other species
                >crucially wrong
                >those other species got outdone by other species
                Was he going full tarded or is this a meme?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                if you mean the extinct horseshoe crabs got outdone by other horseshoe crabs, my previous post was to it.
                if you mean the extinct horseshoe crabs got outdone by other marine animals, then it is regarded that the horseshoe crabs are unsuccessful species in the present world.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >animals all have bilateral symmetry
      *blocks your path*

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I always read and say Fiddler Crab as Diddler Crab.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      if bilateral symmetry is such a perfect evolutionary trait why do I want to kill myself?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're a defective specimen that natural selection will weed out

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Literally because you have a brain, which is only possible thanks to the process of encephalization (gathering of nerve tissue / sensory organs in one end of the body) which in turn is one of the main adaptation bilateralians acquired when they became active animals that could move around rather than sessile creatures. The bilateral body plan is likely an adaptation to such lifestyles in itself.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well, go ahead and try to split youself in half from head to crotch.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >why animals all have bilateral symmetry
      Check your privilege.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    evolution is also driven by the annunaki's genetic engineering projects. naturally it's so gradual that humans should still look more like chimps than not given how little evolutionary time it's been since we diverged. in fact, earth should be dominated by arthropods and primitive molluscs. even advanced molluscs carry the mark of the makers with their unique brain system and genome that depends on RNA editing, which effectively prevents them from evolving further until the gods decide it's their time.

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