Tree of life not real (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, February 17, 2014, 01:52 (3934 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

tony: We know these creatures existed. We know that there is variability within a species, and that there appears to be some very hard limitations on that variability. We know that complex and simple life have lived side by side for long epochs of time. 
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> I am just trying to reframe this discussion in terms of what we know instead of what we believe.-We know that bacteria have been here for 3.5 billion years and H. Sapiens for 150-200,000 years or slightly more. I still don't see the point you are trying to create. There is no question that most complex and even the simple one-celled species start out fully devloped without gradual precursors. Modifications then are minor and react to environmental pressures, and this is where natural selection plays a role. The article shows this. This is current accepted fact, not belief. It appears Darwin was generally wrong. It also appears that we really do not know how evolution procedes from single cell to complex humans. And most of all we do not know where consciousness came from and how it currently works, but we do know a functional brain is required. Does the brain create consciousness or is it a receiver of some sort?