Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-38195691-20191127162526/@comment-44044902-20191230170936

174.2.24.208 wrote: I don’t believe in evolution. AT ALL. There are many facts that prove that the earth couldnt have been around for billions of years. Also, if evolution is true, then why haven’t other animals developed intelligence like us???

-JediMoonlarkAvenger Can you share that proof? Just because I thought it was already an accustomed fact already.

Because that's not how it works. You wouldn't expect a fish to evolve into a human, or develop intelligence over a couple of millions of years. That's not even remotely possible. Things only happen when they have the opportunity to do so. With humans, a line of arboreal omnivores with multi-digit grasping limbs who’d already evolved fairly large brains (by knowing how to care for their young, for example) and spacial mapping abilities as a strategy for that lifestyle happened to be around when climatic change turned their forests into vast grasslands, pressuring them to come down from the trees and freeing up their grasping limbs to start picking up rocks. This isn’t necessarily something that happened beforehand. Due to the change of circumstance, they had to have compromised. Let's take you, a modern human, for example. If your house caught on fire, you wouldn't just sit there. You'd run out, seek shelter, etc. You'd "develop" the intelligence to act, even though you haven't experienced it before. I put that in quotations because we already know how to act in that situation (whether we learned it from school or the internet), but back then, it was all new. Point is: there was no ice anymore, so out ancestors had to go out and explore. They then (slooooowly) passed down this intelligence to us. Other animals, for example, run from a whole different species that didn't have to compromise their homeland and learn new things. Let's take a dog. It evolved from a wolf (I think we can agree on that, right? Just curious). That change was mainly hormonal. They developed compassion to humans (remember, humans have already evolved, been made, etc.), and started becoming more loyal (thus dubbing them 'man's best friend'). Being fed and cared for differently, they became a dog. They didn't need to develop intelligence. They would've survived just fine being wolves. *This is me slowly realizing I sound like that annoying history teacher you hate* Anyways, I could give more examples, but I'm stretching this far too long. I hope someone actually reads this xd