BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / arguments for Evolution

**Posted by horserider99** October 24, 2012 7:27 pm

I'm working on a paper(for fun) on Creation vs. Evolution and I am clueless about what the arguments for Evolution are....anbody able to help?

**Posted by besleybean** October 24, 2012 7:30 pm

Fossil record.
Specifically skull development.
Adaptation.
Genetics
Group co-operation...most of the basics you'll get even from wiki.

**Posted by Harriet** October 24, 2012 7:34 pm

It's like comparing violins to Bach ... what is better?

But you said, you want it for fun. Do you have some kind of idea already how it should be like?

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**Posted by besleybean** October 24, 2012 7:35 pm

Which is better? Why, the one that is real, of course.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** October 24, 2012 7:36 pm

To me, Evolution IS creation.

**Posted by horserider99** October 24, 2012 7:37 pm

Genetics don't really prove evolution though. Because of how complex they are, it's more of a creationist argument.

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**Posted by Harriet** October 24, 2012 7:38 pm

Do you want to talk about creation or creationists?

**Posted by horserider99** October 24, 2012 7:40 pm

I already have tons of arguments for creationists, but I'd like to see what people come up with.

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**Posted by besleybean** October 24, 2012 7:42 pm

I meant in terms if selective breeding, sorry...we can show how man can do it purposefully, we mimic evolution.

**Posted by horserider99** October 24, 2012 7:50 pm

another random thing....I believe it was somewhere between 1970's and 1990's they recreated some chemical from the human body in a test tube...what was it?

**Posted by besleybean** October 24, 2012 7:53 pm

You don't mean the discovery of DNA, do you?
But yes. Microscopes can now show genetic mutation.
That's how evolution occurs: the mutation in genes.

**Posted by horserider99** October 24, 2012 7:55 pm

it was a protein, I believe....I'll look it up.

**Posted by Harriet** October 24, 2012 7:56 pm

Creationists are claiming violins exist because Bach exists

**Posted by besleybean** October 24, 2012 7:58 pm

We know violins exist, that isn't the issue!
We can show the evolution of music and instruments, just as we can the evolution of the species.

**Posted by Harriet** October 24, 2012 8:06 pm

Yes, we know - creationists need something else to "know"

**Posted by horserider99** October 24, 2012 8:07 pm

The chemical created in test tube was actually an amino acid, and it was in 1954....(can't you tell I'm tired? )

**Posted by besleybean** October 24, 2012 8:32 pm

I can provide them with a list, free of charge.

**Posted by Sammy** October 30, 2012 9:06 pm

So you're making a list about evolution vs. creationism?

**Posted by besleybean** October 30, 2012 9:10 pm

Is this essay written yet?

**Posted by horserider99** October 30, 2012 10:59 pm

besleybean wrote:
Is this essay written yet?

Not quite...