Very interesting! So the question seems to be: people, and all or most other life forms evolved, so why didn't the tumor? Dang good question! If one starts thinking much about
the concept of evolution, certainly from there being nothing to then suddenly lifeless material appears that one day comes to life- or even if you start later just from the original (presumably) one celled organism that just keeps on improving itself by accident until we see what we see today, well then many, many questions can arise. IMHO, more questions than are answered. ( OK, hold it right there! I am not going into religion, I am strictly discussing here the
science of evolution, such as is the subject of this article relating to this tumor which strangely did not evolve.
I always have trouble with the science of the techniques used for dating these archaeological finds, or just plain old (pun not intended ) dirt and rocks. How do you ever confirm that your technique is accurate when it tells you this bone and tumor are 1 million years old? Now, I understand that you can have a pretty good working theory of how it works, but how do you know whatever it is holds constant over billions, millions or even thousands of years? How do you ever actually put that to the test scientifically speaking? Science is partly based on observations, which leads to theories, which can be tested and from which predictions can be made. Who can or did observe or record anything that happened even hundreds of thousands of years ago, much less billions? At least with carbon dating ( or maybe other methods) you can compare things to historical information 1000 or 5000 years ago, subject probably to a significant plus or minus factor. But, carbon dating is only good for, what, 50,000 years, assuming all remains constant back before the historical period? I am thinking here where the Geologist went and dated the lava fields on Mt. St. Helens His test showed they were many hundred's of thousands of years old, rather than the observed 10 or 20. I seem to remember he acknowledged right up front what critics claimed afterwards: That test has such a huge +/- gap that it would only be accurate with items that were millions of years old. But I think that was one of his points, how much we assume. Science and assumptions are not the same thing. We assume rock A is say 100 million years old, for whatever reason or bias we might have, and presto, our dating technique proves this is indeed so. Even though we have no way of actually scientifically testing the accuracy of this technique for eons past. How can one know for sure that everything about
the way the world works has been constant for billions of years?
So, we end up with a tumor in an old bone which has not evolved over 1 million years. This always reminds me of my big question: what is the deal with man kind? Talk about
taking a different evolutionary path! OK, so once upon a time lifeless material came into existence and later came to life( such a thing has never been observed since, right? Law of Biogenesis? ) as a one celled organism. Right? ( do we still have 1 celled organisms that have not evolved out of existence? Yes.) Then over millions or billions of years, that 1 celled organism became the vast multitude of species ( extinct or still with us ) that we observe today, all via accidental mutations, right?. So as all of this evolution takes place, a multitude of species evolve various thngs helpful to their survival, right? Things like sexual reproduction ( man and woman with appropriate organs attracted to each other, man, how did that happen? Which came 1st, the lusting man or the woman who would allow him to, well, you know...) And things like limbs, heart, a circulatory system(pipes) which would carry what the heart pumps out, the blood that the heart would pump, an eyeball and optic nerve to carry the signals to a brain which has evolved to be able to interpret those signals, a need for insulin combined with an insulin producing pancreas(at the same time aparently- insulin without a need for insulin is harmul. A need for it without it is also harmful), a need for air(after we came out of the water) and lungs to get that air/O2 into our blood (again, which accidentally came 1st? ), on and on and on, ad infinitum!
So, if all of these creatures ( pardon the term ), man and other animals, evolved all of these same characteristics as they evolved side by side over at least hundreds of millions of years, all of these things that were apparently helpful for the survival of all of them, then where is another animal(or reptile or fish whatever) which can participate in this forum, discussing evolution? Or that can perform an RP or brain surgery, put men on the moon and machines on mars, and potentially destroy the planet with weapons of mass destruction, or worry about
that destruction? Presumably, we evolved these characteristics because they were helpful to our survival. But why just us? Wouldn't those abilities also be helpful to other creatures survival? Just think if some of the species we have caused to go extinct, or almost extinct, could have shot back at us? It might have been helpful to them.
As if evolution does not already have to overcome stupefying odds, the fact that only one species has developed any of those human abilities- when all evolved side by side and from the same primordial soup and 1 celled organism- just really raises even more questions for me. Why ONLY man with these human characteristics, out of all of the billions of creatures which have live and evolved?
So, back to the OP, am I surprised that evolutionists are surprised to find that a cancer tumor did not evolve? Well, maybe I am surprised that they are even surprised, but I am not surprised that the tumor has not evolved. Not even, supposedly, over a million years. ( and I realize I probably hold an extreme minority view about
how scientific this stuff really is, or isn't )
EDIT: and no offense intended for the majority that accept evolutionary theory as fact, maybe there is just a problem with my logic or lack thereof!
Post Edited (BillyBob@388) : 8/13/2016 11:29:22 AM (GMT-6)