10-07-2016, 04:55 PM
(10-07-2016, 02:32 PM)taramarie Wrote:(10-07-2016, 11:35 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Post #1111!I cannot believe that in this day and age we actually have to debate with people if evolution is real or not. We are such a primitive and new species. It is rather embarrassing.
A couple weeks ago my brother and I took a trip to "906 Country" (the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) and paid a visit to Lake Superior. One thing I noticed as I stepped into the water (it was still warm enough for that) was the paucity of life forms there. This is very different from seashores worldwide, and even lakes in southern lower Michigan. Is the water too cold? No. There are much colder shores, and those (even around Antarctica) are rich in life. Fresh water? Nope. Small lakes in Michigan have plenty of small fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and of course water plants. Sure, there are no cnidarians, echinoderms, ctenophores, or some other sea-life phyla, but there is a rich ecosystem, probably having migrated from the Mississippi Basin when Lake Michigan was connected to the Mississippi River.
There just hasn't been enough time for evolution to take its course in Lake Superior. Lake Superior has emerged from the Ice Age only 8000 or so years ago, and has never been connected to the seas except through some difficult rapids. It has never been connected to the Mississippi River except by canals.
Evolution has not had time to create a rich variety of aquatic life in Lake Superior. But if God created the living things of the Earth, then why would He so neglect Lake Superior? Bingo! Evolution is real. It hasn't had the same opportunities everywhere.
...and I am using an ecological argument. Do you want to bet that these people who deny evolution cannot name five phyla of animal life?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.