Nerves can grow about an inch per month, but their path is not guided. Anyone who has had severe nerve damage knows this. Example: When I was about 6 years old, my sister, who was around 10, was leaning up against a glass door which suddenly broke. The glass severed all her nerves in her wrist. They grew back. But she has places in her hand that still have no feeling. She is now 46 years old. If evolution and natural selection were so easy to happen, my sister's nerves would have all grown back perfectly. The DNA code was still there to go by on where everything was to go. But it did not, and she is left with a hand that does not completely work right. You can't tell by looking at it, but she is reminded everytime she goes to use it.
So as you look at each part of the brain, see if you can determine the order of evolution that would work for both the organs it controls, and how the brain would have had to evolve to control them. You will soon start to see that a quick creation, by a creator, would be the only way it would work.
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Um, nerves don't grow nearly that fast. I was told only maybe about a few millimeters per year. It's extremely slow. And evolutionary theory does not state that if an injury occurs to part of the body, it will grow back perfectly.
Perhaps this is a good time to ask why God doesn't heal amputees?
Actually Thomas you are wrong.
Nerves grow actually about a MM a DAY. So a inch of nerve damage takes about a month to heal. BTW I'm talking about Peripheral nerves which is the nerves that are not in the spinal cord.
And this idiot doesn't realize this is actually more proof for evolution. Why would a god make nerves that one can be severed, and two may not gain all their function back? hmmm?
Evolution would have no say on this anyway, because to severe a nerve means one hell of a deep cut and until recently that would probably had been death anyway.
And if your god was real, why couldn't he have healed her perfectly? Every time your sister uses her damaged hand, she should be reminded that it's the product of undirected evolution quite literally, unintelligent design.
Also why would a god make a nerve that is in the back of my neck yet when irritated can affect the back of my eyes?
Damn neck causing so many nerves to get pinched/irritated. Bah, why couldn't evolution had been better in that regard :(
No, if evolution really worked, then it wouldn't waste time developing unnecessarily "perfect" repair systems.
Expecting nerves to grow back perfectly because all the DNA is still there is like expecing a cake to regrow a missing slice because you still have the recipe. The original nerves didn't grow through fully developed tissue and knit together, they developed along with the rest of the body.
But isn't it strange that Issac expects evolution to be able to produce perfect, infallible solutions to every one of life's problems, hence every make-shift, jury-rigged and half-assed process in the body is thereby proof of creation by an all-knowing and all-powerful being?
Issac thinks evolution means "creation by random chance", yet he still credits it with more intelligence than his god.
FFS Lamarkian evolution was disproven ages ago. REAL evolution DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
And for that matter, why doesn't your magical sky daddy fix your sister's hand?
Why is it that evolution has to be perfect, but your perfect, all-knowing, all-powerful god does not?
After all, why would he not make it so we always healed completely from any injury? Or that we simply couldn't be injured at all?
Stop pretending you know anything about evolution, health, science, or anything that isn't your fantasy world.
"If evolution and natural selection were so easy to happen, my sister's nerves would have all grown back perfectly."
If christianism worked so well, god would have healed her before the ambulance arrived.
Actually, NO, if your sister's nerves grew back perfectly, that would be inconsistent with recent findings. Recent discoveries indicate that DNA determines where major structures go, but muscle, circulatory tissue, and nerve tissue are indeed not guided; it essentially amounts to "find a way to get oxygen to this location; I'll be busy grabbing a sandwich. *comes back an hour later* This is a tangled mess! But it gets the job done; whatever. *stamps with seal of approval*"
Looks like you almost got evolution proven in front of your own eyes. You shouldn't lean on glass ANYTHING. I remember once a kid at the bus stop fell through a big glass window. He claimed that it had bullet holes in it, but still, glass is fragile.
Also some are better healers than others due to lots of variation between humans. Nothings perfect, science doesn't expect it but religion claims it is.
I carry only a scar in my eyebrow that a flying cinder did when I was 5, I've had worse burns and many large cuts that never scarred (took years sometimes but completely disappeared. In school vaccinations I got the multiple one twice because the first one disappeared in days, they thought it wasn't loaded so did it again, it disappeared in a couple days also. A lot of people carry those shoulder marks their whole life.
Some people heal completely from major damage, others carry minor wounds forever. Variation
Only God is dumb enough to make a being that cannot heal correctly! Based on all the flaws in the human body, the only conclusion is that we where made by a extremely DUMB creator, just like the the God of the bible!
Myelinated nerve tissue, you moron. Learn what it is and how it works before you make sweeping assumptions about how it relates to evolution. And honestly? Such slow healing would hint at a less than perfect design, should your babble actually be true. You may want to question that notion first.
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Umm, you do realize that her nerves not fully healing is evidence against a creator since a creator could have made a body that would fully heal itself?
Maybe God created salamanders and starfish in His image...and/or sponges...
1. Unless the nerve damage is severe enough to actually impair your ability to survive and leave viable offspring, then growth of nerve tissue has fuck-all to do with natural selection. Because your nerves don't reproduce, except through you, the larger organisms of which they are a part.
2. Evolution doesn't produce "perfect" organisms. It produces systems that are only as good as they need to be to keep an organism alive long enough to reproduce.
3. You know nothing about biological evolution, biology, chemistry, physics, cosmology or science in general, you don't even understand the differences between them, and yet you feel the need to lecture on them at length. Frankly you have no business criticizing the people who do understand.
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