The de-evolution in the last paragraph? I'm not so sure. I don't have a PHD.
Yes, that is one. There really isn't such a thing as de-evolution. Evolution doesn't say that a species can't reacquire previous features. Certain features on a genetic level can be turned off and turned back on at a later point.
You don't need a PHD for this stuff, just some basic education and critical thinking skills. (got a laugh at that site claiming to promote critical thinking)
Another thing that article got wrong.
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This is variation and adaptation, not evolution.
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These variations and adaptations is decent with modification i.e. evolution.
I just thought of this. If humans evolved from apes, then why do apes still exist? And the hyena that evolved into a whale, why is hyenas still around. Aren't they supposed to all have changed into whales by now?
not all groups of apes evolved into humans. We diversified, with some resulting in other and others taking a different evolutionary path to become chimps and Gorilla, etc.
As for whales, they evolved from a hyena like animal, not hyenas. the hyena like animal wasn't even a primitive form of hyena and whale.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
-- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Oh come on! We went over this one on your profile, this is just a quote mine. Something I would expect better from you by now after seeing the trouncing on that creationist site.
Anyway for those not keeping up further on after the quote above Darwin says this.
"Again, two distinct organs, or the same organ under two very different forms, may simultaneously perform in the same individual the same function, and this is an extremely important means of transition: to give one instance,â�"there are fish with gills or branchiæ that breathe the air dissolved in the water, at the same time that they breathe free air in their swimbladders, this latter organ being divided by highly vascular partitions, and having a ductus pneumaticus for the supply of air. To give another instance from the vegetable kingdom: plants climb by three distinct means, by spirally twining, by clasping a support with their sensitive tendrils, and by the emission of aërial rootlets; these three means are usually found in distinct groups, but some few species exhibit two of the means, or even all three, combined in the same individual. In all such cases one of the two organs might readily be modified and perfected so as to perform all the work, being aided during the progress of modification by the other organ; and then this other organ might be modified for some other and quite distinct purpose, or be wholly obliterated." -Origin of Species
In other words we don't have such an example that would cause the theory to break down. We do have complex organs that formed by numerous, successive slight modifications.
