At first the bacteria fed off sunlight. Then bigger stronger bacteria developed and started eating the original bacteria. They developed into fish and the smarter fish stayed at the bottom while the less advanced stayed at the top and fed off sunlight. BLABLA. The first life didn't need the 5 food groups.
Where is the evidence that bacteria can "evolve" into fish?
Where is the evidence that fish can feed off sunlight?
Even the simplest single-cell organism is comprised of millions of atoms, all working together as a functioning system in an organized way to process energy from matter. Where did that come from? What instructed those atoms to behave in that way? The Cosmos?
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In the beginning, life was blind until a few hundred million years passed, and then, one day, there was a microscopic copying error in the DNA of a bacterium. This random mutation gave that microbe a protein molecule that absorbed sunlight. Mutations continued to occur at random, as they always do in any population of living things. Another mutation caused a dark bacterium to flee intense light. Those bacteria that could tell light from dark had a decisive advantage over the ones that couldn't. Why? Because the daytime brought harsh, ultraviolet light that damages DNA.
The sensitive bacteria fled the intense light to safely exchange their DNA in the dark.
They survived in greater numbers than the bacteria that stayed at the surface. Over time, those light-sensitive proteins became concentrated in a pigment spot on the more advanced, one-celled organism. This made it possible to find the light, an overwhelming advantage for an organism that harvests sunlight to make food. This multi-celled organism evolved a dimple in the pigment spot. The bowl-shaped depression allowed the animal to distinguish light from shadow to crudely make out objects in its vicinity, including those to eat and those that might eat it a tremendous advantage. Later, things became a little clearer. The dimple deepened and evolved into a socket with a small opening. Over thousands of generations, natural selection was slowly sculpting the eye. In the eyes of primitive fish, the transparent gel near the pinhole formed into a lens. At the same time, the pinhole enlarged to let in more and more light. Fish could now see in high-def, both close up and far away. And then something terrible happened. Our eyes originally evolved to see in water.
The watery fluid in those eyes neatly eliminated the distortion of the bending effect you get when you look at things when you are under water. But for land animals, the light carries images from dry air into their still-watery eyes. That bends the light rays, causing all kinds of distortions.
When our amphibious ancestors left the water for the land, their eyes, exquisitely evolved to see in water, were lousy for seeing in the air. Our vision has never been as good since.
We like to think of our eyes as state-of-the-art, but 375 million years later, we still can't see things right in front of our noses or discern fine details in near darkness the way fish can.
When we left the water, why didn't nature just start over again and evolve us a new set of eyes that were optimal for seeing in the air? Nature doesn't work that way. Evolution reshapes existing structures over generations, adapting them with small changes. It can't just go back to the drawing board and start from scratch. At every stage of its development, the evolving eye functioned well enough to provide a selective advantage for survival. And among animals alive today, we find eyes at all these stages of development. And all of them function. The complexity of the human eye poses no challenge to evolution by natural selection. In fact, the eye and all of biology makes no sense without evolution. Some claim that evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened.
Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.
