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Originally Posted by joe_smith
how could random events on pond sum give us an intelligent conscience and vastly creative animal called a human? That's some major random event to me! from pond scum to landing on the moon all through random mutations and natural section to some this is true, for me it dose not make sense as how it can be true.
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Richard Dawkins calls this "the argument from personal incredulity".
There have been many good books - particularly by Richard Dawkins - that explain this topic for the layperson. To say "I just can't see how this can be true" is not really a valid stance to take when there is so much good information out there. This is a subject that you either understand - or you don't. If you don't understand it, then you probably (with respect) need to do some reading before taking a point of view. Then, at least you can say "well, I can understand the mechanism of evolution through natural selection, but I think differently.
As you can probably tell, I am an evolution/natural selection fanboy. For me it is a very simple, elegant theory that has withstood (and indeed been strengthened by) the huge advances that have been made in our knowledge of molecular biology.
Adam