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Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf
Evolution is just a theory. Speculation and hypothesis based upon assumptions, and some known facts (that are occasionally updated when new info is discovered). We have not been around long enough to really notice any major evolution.
If man descended from apes why are apes still around? Do things evolve?
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By those standards,
everything is a just a theory -- including whether your or I even exist.
We notice evolution every time we have to develop a new flu vaccine or a drug-resistant strain of a disease pops up -- the viruses and bacteria have evolved to adapt to existing methods to wipe them out.
Man didn't descend from apes, both evolved from a common ancestor that existed long before. The evolutionary branches "split" long before there were either apes or men; their branches never "crossed" in the first place.
Just trying to clarifying a few things. Evolution doesn't work the way most people think -- species don't really "descend" from one another, they just change to adapt to the prevailing biological and climatological conditions at the time. No, that's not really right either -- species don't deliberately change to adapt, they acquire a set of random mutations that allow them, step by step, to better fit into their niche.
And, as any good scientist will admit, any current theory is subject to change or even be thrown out completely at any time -- such is the nature of learning and science.