Richard Dawkins explains how the distribution of life on Earth’s continents and islands is exactly as we should expect if life evolved, and exactly how we should NOT expect if it had been created.
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“In May 2007 Josh and I were among those who went to Galapagos with a large group from the Center for Inquiry. As we walked with the guided parties over the islands, Josh took every opportunity to film the wildlife. Occasionally he would turn the camera on me, and I would ad lib a few words about whatever animals we were looking at. These ‘vignettes’ were unscripted and unrehearsed, and there was no time for any “Take 2″ repetitions, because the guided walk was moving on.”
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Both the marine and land iguanas of Galápagos resemble land iguanas found on the South American mainland, about 600 miles to the east. No doubt it was a freak accident that delivered them first to the newly formed volcanic islands of Galápagos. Thereafter, the fact that there were several different islands in the archipelago enabled them to diverge. The marine iguana, which is found nowhere but on Galápagos, presumably evolved on one island only at first, then later spread to the other islands, where they later diverged into all the different varieties that are now found.
This is a land iguana. It was land iguanas that first colonized the Galápagos Islands and then evolved separately into the modern land iguanas here and the marine iguanas, on the separate islands. The original colonizers would have been land iguanas that floated across, probably on maybe a fallen tree or something like that, perhaps in a hurricane. This has been known to happen in the West Indies, it’s actually been recorded: Fallen trees in a very, very high wind, blown across from one island to another, bearing a great load of iguanas which then, immediately, as soon as the tree is blown ashore, rush out and start to colonize the new island. So it’s actually been seen to happen on another species in another place, but it’s pretty clear that something like that is what would have happened here.
If species were individually created to fit their environment, we should expect islands and continents to have the same animals and plants as similar islands and continents on the other side of the world. But this is exactly what we do NOT find. The distribution of animal and plant species over the islands and continents of the world follows exactly the pattern we should expect if they have evolved, and exactly the pattern we should not expect if they had been created.
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The Evolution is the most interesting way of thinking about life !!!
@philackey What?
@philackey Does your creator plays creating different animals for fun?
Please, open your mind.
your move creation
@cjl236 Favorable mutations almost never happen. To develop complex new structures it requires sometimes hundreds of favorable mutations to occur simultaneously. (because small incremental changes serve no benefit & wouldn’t be passed on) It is unlikely that darwinian evolution driven by mutation is the source of the diversity we see on earth. Years of experiments with forced mutation on fruit flies have proven this. Just another uncomfortable fact.
What a complete idiot. How can Dawkins or anyone else presume what a creator may or may not have wanted. If you create something others cannot presume to know what your design or purpose is. If my car is a lemon does that mean it evolved. This is a straw man argument. Dawkins parrots this nonsense all the time. If Dawkins has truth on his side why use fallacies. Further proof evolution is a religion.
Man, every time I watch this video I can’t help but think of Dawkins as being the Pokemon Master.
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded “God Delusion” author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another “leader” given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
Jesuitical; pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system 2 suit their Evo-Hoax Agenda to discredit the Bible
Papal Rome cant have their Counter Reformation 2nd Dark Age DESPOTISM until Bible is destroyed
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@cjl236 Why do you bother to say anything to a person like me? What’s wrong with you? I’m not talking about lab experiments on animals.
@Insanity2100 Evolution doesn’t claim that organisms evolve by accident. Yes, the mutations that occur are what you could call “by accident” however, it is no accident that favorable mutations are chosen over unfavorable ones (by favorable I mean mutations that increase the likelihood of survival for that given organism).
@MrSilvestris I’m sorry but I disagree. I think it is necessary to use some animals in labs. Yes, tests are done on them but only a small amount of those tests involve any real harm to the organism and if lab animals are killed, it is done humanely. Just because a species natural habitat is in a certain environment, it doesn’t particularly mean that in a lab that organism wont be, what you could describe for that species as being, happy.
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Richard Dawkins has gone off the rails:
search for Richard Dawkins and male privilege on Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog.
Participating in flaming a woman because she dares to say ‘don’t objectify me at a conference’? Poorly done, Dawkins.
@dcorbino10 lmao read ur comment before watching the other vid and tho you were delusional.
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@jedihunter176 LOL!
*timidly approaches the comments section out of fear their might be a pointless creationism-evolutionism fight here*
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Hey look! Everybody’s getting along with each other!
I’d love to see a nice nature show where I don’t have to see a human.; I wish they’d leave all these poor animals alone. Let them have their own evolution in their own way; it is the right of every species and Planet Earth is not a Laboratory. From what place do we come from to decide what these creatures are and what they are about and what permission we give ourselves to interfere with life and so on.;
Ilya Prigogine, chemist-physicist, recipient of two Nobel Prizes in chemistry, wrote: “The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.”(1) That’s right – zero!
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