Why question the way the world has been created?/ Different lifespans

[Greta]

Funny thing though. Evolution is gradual but evolutionary change happens in a blink. It’s like water dripping into a balloon one drop at a time. Takes a long time to fill up but when it does, the change is fast.

In evolutionary terms the fast change is that moment of light at conception. Everything pre and post is one drop at a time for in the linear world attention is singular though muti-tasking is fast: the glance, the fragrance, the touch, the wine, the cigarette ... all evolving to the big biological balloon flash burst of evolutionary change.

Yes, often nature (and human culture) simmers along at a linear rate and the pressure builds until a threshold is reached, and then there is a rapid exponential change. Birth and death are other examples.

[thedoc]

It’s like a wack-a-mole!



Though not all mutants survive, mutation is required for evolution. It is said that in mice and men the moment is marked by a flash of light. That is the blink in time, in the spotlight so to speak. Natural selection and all that fork-in-the-road stuff hinges on that moment.

Oddly enough, I do get what you're saying. Whatever lead to that moment, it comes to fruition in the moment. Still, something lead to it which took longer, and led to the tendency.

May you have many more moments of clarity while veering through the over-stimulated throes of distraction tugging at your attention in that world.

Bottom line: no mutant, no evolution.

Any examples or records of surviving human mutants to empirically bolster the Theory of Evolution?

Every human alive today is a mutant, the result of a mutation of ape chromosomes to human chromosomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_2_(human)

Likewise every other animal or plant, every living thing alive today is a mutant, mutated from species that preceded them. Usually the older species goes extinct, but occasionally the preceding species continues to survive, usually in a limited environment that has been cut off from the rest of the world.

[Dalek Prime]

And we are all required to register under the Mutant Registration Act, or a Sentinel will show up at your front door...

[Hobbes' Choice]

evolution
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evolution

2a : a process of change in a certain direction : unfolding
b : the action or an instance of forming and giving something off : emission
c (1) : a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state : growth (2) : a process of gradual and relatively peaceful social, political, and economic advance

The last refuge of a fool, what he knows nothing about, he consults a dictionary.

The dictionary gives what the consensus is of what the general population believes, and better defines the delusion.

But the fool offers a pre-Darwinian definition, and is too stupid to know the difference.

[Hobbes' Choice]

devolve: to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution.

Old Hobbes, characteristically evolving into degeneration by rarely failing to be predictable.

You are just making a idiot of yourself, digging deeper in that hole of stupidity.

[Dalek Prime]

devolve: to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution.

Old Hobbes, characteristically evolving into degeneration by rarely failing to be predictable.

You are just making a idiot of yourself, digging deeper in that hole of stupidity.

Correction. He already is an idiot.

[thedoc]

And we are all required to register under the Mutant Registration Act, or a Sentinel will show up at your front door...

It's called a "Birth Certificate".

[Dalek Prime]

And we are all required to register under the Mutant Registration Act, or a Sentinel will show up at your front door...

It's called a "Birth Certificate".

Why certify my birth? I assumed my sudden presence was fairly obvious.

Nurse: 'Is there something wrong, doctor?

Doctor: 'I could swear there were only three of us in this room a moment ago...'

[thedoc]

And we are all required to register under the Mutant Registration Act, or a Sentinel will show up at your front door...

It's called a "Birth Certificate".

Why certify my birth? I assumed my sudden presence was fairly obvious.

Nurse: 'Is there something wrong, doctor?

Doctor: 'I could swear there were only three of is in this room a moment ago...'

If you don't have a birth certificate, you are just a figment of your imagination.

[Dalek Prime]

It's called a "Birth Certificate".

Why certify my birth? I assumed my sudden presence was fairly obvious.

Nurse: 'Is there something wrong, doctor?

Doctor: 'I could swear there were only three of is in this room a moment ago...'

If you don't have a birth certificate, you are just a figment of your imagination.

*Poof!*

No, actually I have two; the long and short versions. The long and the short of it is, I'm much taller in the long than the short version.

[Arising_uk]

To evolve implies slow development into a more advanced state, ...

No it doesn't, at least not with evolution in the biological sense.

[thedoc]

If you don't have a birth certificate, you are just a figment of your imagination.

*Poof!*

No, actually I have two; the long and short versions. The long and the short of it is, I'm much taller in the long than the short version.

I don't know where mine is, and I'm fading fast.

[thedoc]

To evolve implies slow development into a more advanced state, ...

No it doesn't, at least not with evolution in the biological sense.

Evolution is the change in a species, or a segment of a species to better fit a changing environment and is a gradual change over many generations. An individual changing to meet a changing situation is not evolution, just a change in behavior.

[Walker]

devolve: to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution.

Old Hobbes, characteristically evolving into degeneration by rarely failing to be predictable.

You are just making a idiot of yourself, digging deeper in that hole of stupidity.

Hey Hobbes, listen up.

Regarding your ad hominems, fuck you and your mutant horse.

Get it, you fucking moron?

[Walker]

To evolve implies slow development into a more advanced state, ...

No it doesn't, at least not with evolution in the biological sense.

Evolution is the change in a species, or a segment of a species to better fit a changing environment and is a gradual change over many generations. An individual changing to meet a changing situation is not evolution, just a change in behavior.

Good thing you put species in there, doc, because your previous definition of evolution, wherein it was written, "Evolution is a change to better fit a changed environment, and if that means getting simpler and less complex, that is evolution, "is actually the definition of Adaptation.

As in, adapting to degeneration, i.e., degenerate mutant horses and whatever rides in on them. Uh huh.

So we can say that in order to adapt to certain stimuli, such as a monosyllabic cretin and its mutant horse in an intimate tete-a-tete, it may be necessary for an otherwise decent human being to personally evolve into a gibbering ape … which is a devolution.