(November 9, 2014 at 11:15 am)His_Majesty Wrote:(November 8, 2014 at 6:08 pm)pocaracas Wrote: First, learn to quote properly! I had to fetch the quote from the correct place to put it here!
Second, because "yesterday" represents a long, long, long, long, long, long time. More time than what we've had available to test that.
Still... we see some forms of bacteria turning into different forms of bacteria,
Fruit flies that evolve new reproductive processes,
E. Coli that develops the ability to use citric acid as a carbon source,
domestication of foxes,
let's not forget, ring species.
And many others... not to mention the fossil record and all the neat changes of fossil characteristics with the time that they're dated to.
Putting it all together, it seems that evolution is a process that has happened on this planet over the ages and is still happening, today.
You can't base your conclusion about evolution just by looking at what you see around you in your day-to-day life. Darwin had the luck of being the first to notice the pattern. Others came later and noticed it in other species, in fossils, everywhere!
I agree, it happened so long ago, that it never actually happened at all.
I'm glad to know your mentality is in the 5th century.
Enjoy it...
Just one word of caution, nowadays, there are a few dark, strip-like patches of ground, where metal things move on wheels.... avoid them.