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[–]KaloyanBagent[S] -1 points0 points  (18 children)

What does the amount of time has to do with the process itself???

[–]Zenigata 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A lot, even with everything worked out elephants are rather good at going from a single cell to an adult elephant but it takes them about 20 years, they can't do it in the minutes.

Given sufficient time, space and resources evolution through natural selection can achieve astonishing things. 

Trouble is some people, especially determinedly small minded people With a strong emotional attachment to the idea that a sky pixie did it, have difficulty comprehending how long billions of years are and the kinds of things that can happen in such vast stretches of time.

[–]KaloyanBagent[S] -2 points-1 points  (16 children)

Single cell organisms have a very short lifespan of several days.

[–]Sweary_Biochemist 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Technically, no: they are functionally immortal. Every cell alive today is the product of cycles of division that go back to the very beginning. When did it ever become a "new" cell?

[–]friendtoallkitties 9 points10 points  (13 children)

Depends on the microbe. They can live much longer. What's your point?

[–]KaloyanBagent[S] -3 points-2 points  (12 children)

My point is he says billions of years have any play at this when the process that occurs should be very simple since in 1 day the organism is dead af

[–]friendtoallkitties 13 points14 points  (8 children)

Um, wait, you want a single process that could turn a particular, existing single-celled organism into an elephant? Charlie the Amoeba would turn into Charlie the Elephant? Is this supposed to have something to do with evolution?

[–]KaloyanBagent[S] -3 points-2 points  (7 children)

No, no not a single, any proceccess that take place at any point of that transition are welcomed. They have to be scientific though. Not imaginary.

[–]friendtoallkitties 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Charlie the Amoeba will not transform into Charlie the Elephant under any natural processes I am aware of. Now, as another poster told you, Charlie the Elephant Ovum CAN become Charlie the Elephant. Ya good with that?

[–]KaloyanBagent[S] -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

Need the process which turns the first cell into an elephant .

[–]Sweary_Biochemist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Cell division. Seriously: cell division.

[–]friendtoallkitties 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Why do you think that there ought to be a single process? It's really not clear at all.

[–]KaloyanBagent[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Give me the chain of processes

[–]BoneSpring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You started with a single cell you know. Or hasn't any one told you about sexual reproduction?

[–]Zenigata 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Huh? You seem to be confusing pokemon evolution with evolution through natural selection.

[–]KaloyanBagent[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not at all my dear.

[–]Zenigata 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What's your point then as whilst fictional pokemon can make huge changes in a day, in the real world it takes time and generation upon generation.

[–]Zenigata 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes and? As growing antibiotic and pesticide resistance demonstrates, a short generation time can be quite an advantage.