Oh joy, this is a much more entertaining subject! Now we're having some fun.
Lemmie post a fun little video on this:
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Now for some more fun with the punching bag.
@Captain:
We're talking about a fish, with a complete system of body parts necessary to be a fish, gradually morphing into a human being, with a complete system of body parts necessary to be a fish + an intellect? Are you serious?
Does anyone else think of Mr Garison talking about evolution when we read this guy's posts?
First off, a fish has no reason to become a human being. As long as there is water and food in the water, why should it bother with being anything other than a fish?
Competition. Imagine coastal waters filled to the brim with fish trying to outlive the other. Now imagine a rich fertile environment barren of competing inhabitants that any species who gets there would be guarenteed to pass along it's genetic information for centuries to come. The first ones to get there wins!
My evolutionary science is a bit rusty, but I think there was a transitionary amphibian form that accomodated water and air before they went staight to air breathing.
Third, when the hell is a fish supposed to develop an intellect? It's physically impossible for a fish's brain to "gradually adapt" into something that can suddenly develop thoughts.
Good thing it didn't go straight to human then, eh? After all, that would mean skipping through the primitive amphibian stage, marsupial and early mamal stages and eventually early primates stages.
There's no proof of it or evolution anywhere. There's no bloody proof. The theory of evolution will always remain just that - a theory, with no evidence to back it up.
A - You're confusing "hypothesis" with "theory", look it up.
B - Fossils.