So getting from a single cell to the human race by evolution seems hugely unlikely. — Gregory
Only because those people do not comprehend the time-scale, the rate of reproduction and mutation in one-celled organisms and the reproductive advantage of beneficial mutation.
(And, of course, cats don't evolve into dogs; dogs and cats both evolved from https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/science/343965/cats-and-dogs-had-a-common-ancestor-and-here-it-is/story/ and so did a whole bunch of other animal species. It took 40+million years. ) — Vera Mont
The older the alleged evolutionary line is the less likely its real because it's just a greater amount of time the living beings didn't go extinct. — Gregory
What it tries to replace may be far more important — Gregory
a cat was to evolve into a dog through a long line of other individuals descended from the cat, each mutation would happen randomly to one or more of the group. And what are the odds that this mutation would happen across the group? — Gregory
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