Evolution Question

[CrusaderFrank]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

Evolution is full of design flaws.

Which is why we scoff at "intelligent design".

But we "evolved" away from the far, far, far superior ability to drink salt water because....?

 

[geauxtohell]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

Evolution is full of design flaws.

Which is why we scoff at "intelligent design".

But we "evolved" away from the far, far, far superior ability to drink salt water because....?

It wasn't advantageous to force every species in the world to be a coastel dweller.

Not a lot of sources of saltwater to be found inland.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

Where is the flaw in dropping resources to maintain a function that is no longer required to live?

Because 98% of the water on the planet is rendered undrinkable

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Evolution is full of design flaws.

Which is why we scoff at "intelligent design".

But we "evolved" away from the far, far, far superior ability to drink salt water because....?

It wasn't advantageous to force every species in the world to be a coastel dweller.

Not a lot of sources of saltwater to be found inland.

That's pretty fucking lame.

70% of the planet is water, but undrinkable. Better to be able to process either salt or fresh water as the far superior survival strategy

 

[geauxtohell]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

Where is the flaw in dropping resources to maintain a function that is no longer required to live?

Because 98% of the water on the planet is rendered undrinkable

And about .000000000000000000000000000000001% of that water is found inland.

When we decided to become land dwellers, we obviously had to adapt a new strategy for hydration.

 

[geauxtohell]

But we "evolved" away from the far, far, far superior ability to drink salt water because....?

It wasn't advantageous to force every species in the world to be a coastel dweller.

Not a lot of sources of saltwater to be found inland.

That's pretty fucking lame.

70% of the planet is water, but undrinkable. Better to be able to process either salt or fresh water as the far superior survival strategy

Whatever, Frank. You obviously have your mind made up. However, there is a good answer to your question. You just refuse to accept it.

Why waste your time with rhetorical questions?

 

[FireGod]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

Where is the flaw in dropping resources to maintain a function that is no longer required to live?

Because 98% of the water on the planet is rendered undrinkable

And your point? The water that is 100% on land masses is drinkable as MOST people do not live near a salt water body.

 

[rdean]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

Evolution is full of design flaws.

Which is why we scoff at "intelligent design".

Yea, like putting a sewer pipe right next to the playground.

 

[FireGod]

But we "evolved" away from the far, far, far superior ability to drink salt water because....?

It wasn't advantageous to force every species in the world to be a coastel dweller.

Not a lot of sources of saltwater to be found inland.

That's pretty fucking lame.

70% of the planet is water, but undrinkable. Better to be able to process either salt or fresh water as the far superior survival strategy

It is not a good/efficient strategy when generations have absolutely no need to have the ability to drink seawater.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

If we evolved from the oceans, how come we can't drink salt water?

Because it's been at least a billion years since the first animals crawled out of the sea and we've evolved further. Our renal system has been accustomed to fresh water and drinking sea water causes more water to be excreted than the amount taken in, leading to dehydration.

Interesting, but inaccurate. The simple answer is that the ocean has gotten more salty since the first amphibian climbed out of it. The current inhabitants of the ocean gradually evolved to this environment as it got saltier, but land animals and fresh water fish never needed to adapt.

 

[Toro]

If we evolved from the oceans, how come we can't drink salt water?

Or, if a magical being created us all, why can't we all weave magic?

 

[SmarterThanHick]

Why can't we drink salt water? How is that an effective evolutionary strategy?

We should be able to readily drink either fresh or salt water

The naive question is usually something like "But if evolution gives us advantageous things, why can't we fly? Or shoot lasers from our eyes? Or have two hearts? Or fly?!" Natural selection has little to do with what you want, and everything to do with environmental pressures. The "pressure" in this case was all the tasty vegetables that were ripe for the grazing AWAY from the ocean. We also lost fins and the ability to survive underwater. Don't see you complaining about that.

It seems to me that your vision of evolution is some human-fish hybrid running up from the ocean, nomming some bushes, and then running back. That's not how it works. Changes took place over millions of years, in species that were completely cut off from the ocean. That's why we can't shoot lasers from our eyes.

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

"As advertised" is changing to any given environmental pressure that happens to be around, whether it's a long-term good or bad change. There are tons of design flaws in evolution. Only creationism claims there's some intelligence to it all. But looking at our genes, it's clear that we are not the product of some precisely engineered work of art. We're bits and pieces glued together over time.

There's nothing "intelligent" about it, from anatomy to cellular biology. Why do we need mitochondria, that started as a completely separate organism, as symbiotic organelles in every one of our cells if we were designed perfectly? Why do we have genetic diseases at all if not for evolution gone astray? What makes you think female armpit hair was designed? What do you think the term "vestigial" actually symbolizes?

Evolution has nothing to do with design. You still don't understand what evolution is, and yet you keep making these ignorant threads anyway.

 

[Dr.Traveler]

If we evolved from the oceans, how come we can't drink salt water?

Been thinking about this, and this might help you understand what's going on.

Try going vegitarian for about 6 months. Then eat steak.

What you'll find is pure agony. If you give up meat for a while, you'll find you have to ease back in to eating meat. Your body seems to just lose the ability to process it. One of my friends have a vegetarian girlfriend, which means he was a vegetarian too. At Christmas he'd go home, his parents would serve him steak, and he'd suffer mightily.

So the inability to drink saltwater isn't that surprising. After all, if your own body can have trouble processing meat after a break from it, imagine what its like if your specied hasn't drank salt water in thousands or millions of years.

 

[konradv]

If we evolved from the oceans, how come we can't drink salt water?

Because it's been at least a billion years since the first animals crawled out of the sea and we've evolved further. Our renal system has been accustomed to fresh water and drinking sea water causes more water to be excreted than the amount taken in, leading to dehydration.

Interesting, but inaccurate. The simple answer is that the ocean has gotten more salty since the first amphibian climbed out of it. The current inhabitants of the ocean gradually evolved to this environment as it got saltier, but land animals and fresh water fish never needed to adapt.

Oceans haven't actually gotten much saltier since ancient times or the oceans would be nearly as salty as the Dead Sea. Salt is actually taken out of the system by plate tectonics recycling the ocean floor and its accrued salt deposits and by taking water with it as it does so. I believe my rendition is the more accurate of the two theories. For your theory to be true at the time the first animals crawled onto land, the seas must have been nearly fresh, which is not borne out by the fossil record.

 

[blu]

But you'll admit that if evolution or Intelligent Designed worked as advertised, then we would be have evolved or developed the ability to safely process salt water for drinking.

What a HUGE design flaw!

not really... those living "with nature" have plenty of ways to get fresh water and don't rely on raping the land like city people do. They have no need to drink salt water and never have

 

[rikules]

If we evolved from the oceans, how come we can't drink salt water?

Why is the Ocean Salty?


SOURCES OF THE SALTS...
Sea water has been defined as a weak solution of almost everything. Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea. Some of the ocean's salts have been dissolved from rocks and sediments below its floor. Other sources of salts include the solid and gaseous materials that escaped from the Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the atmosphere.

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it wasn't always salty


salination of the oceans took a long time

perhaps in the beginning stages of evolution the oceans were much less salty
or not salty at all....

 

[Toro]

The naive question is usually something like "But if evolution gives us advantageous things, why can't we fly? Or shoot lasers from our eyes? Or have two hearts? Or fly?!" Natural selection has little to do with what you want, and everything to do with environmental pressures. The "pressure" in this case was all the tasty vegetables that were ripe for the grazing AWAY from the ocean. We also lost fins and the ability to survive underwater. Don't see you complaining about that.

Or, if evolution didn't happen, how come we're able to eat medium rare angus filet mignons?

 

[∑₭o Đ∆Żə]

Evolution is not a scientific theory, it's the belief in magic.

 

[konradv]

Belief is a theory.

 

[blu]

Evolution is not a scientific theory, it's the belief in magic.

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