A big problem for Evolution?

[BluE_MeaniE]

Originally Posted by Sword_of_Gardenia

First of all, if species have been evolving over time, why don't we see species today that are in the intermediate stage of evolution? A creature halfway between a bird and a reptile? Or maybe a fish (or some other organism) still trying to evolve into some unknown new creature? If evolution is completely fact, and things don't stop evolving, there would be organisms that are still changing, developing.

So, there's a bit of a misunderstanding about evolution here. No one says evolution has a "direction". In a sense, everything may be in an intermediate stage, but evolution doesn't necessarily predict what a species is going to become. And oganisms are indeed still changing and developing.

Secondly, at what point did organisms start reproducing and to start needing another organism to reproduce another? When did we go from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction? Did sexual organs just pop out of the blue? Were they completely, perfectly functional without any mistake even when they were not quite developed? And at what point was that?

While I don't know the answer to this one specifically, nothing just pops out of the blue perfectly functional as it is now. It doesn't work that way. It's been demonstrated often how mechanisms in a species come about from a number of different ways.

The ones I can think of off the top of my head here things developing by a number of stages, each slightly less crude than the one preceding it. It doesn't need to be perfect to be better than other species' versions of the same thing. Other methods are co-option, and things like that. Yada yada yada.

The point is, I'm just sensing a misunderstanding of what evolution says.

Thirdly, Darwin is extremely uncertain throughout his writings (see link). I'm not saying anything against science, I think it has greatly improved life in general. It's evolution I have a problem with, and what I don't consider "true science" as nothing can be proven.

http://www.antipas.org/books/evoluti...le/evo_02.html

Yes, actually. It took Charles Darwin a very hard and long time to even admit the whole natural selection theory. I attribute that to his pretty interesting relationship with religion through his life. But that doesn't mean anything as evolution doesn't begin and end with Darwin in any way.