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This is the first of a three part video series that I love. It is a pretty fun and entertaining format (in my opinion at least) and you can learn a lot of animal facts. I know it is of the opposite persuasion from what many here on the forum believe, but I like it and wanted to share it with any of of you who are willing to give it a chance. I just rewatched it on DVD today myself.

 
If you like science that explains the world around us, I highly recommend the books of J.E. Gordon. He explains why things are strong or weak, right down to the atoms at the tip of a crack, and does it just by telling interesting stories about the people discovering how things work. As well as having been right in the thick of it, he is a superb writer.
 
Observations for me are the usual. Most all of the same folks who won't believe in evolution at all....will blindly accept how much every living creature has adapted the constantly changing world since forever...the only difference being that adaptation involves no mutations (supposedly). I think that if experimentations went deeper (and without bias as to which camp they believe in), they'd find it's basically the same thing. We either change over time....and I mean, we physically and even chemically change some....or we don't. And if none of us living creatures did so at all....we'd have died out already.

Another thing that seemed more of an actual contradiction: the example he gives in the first few minutes to where he's simply talking about that bug. He mentions the big bang of just "bang...everything exists" but then rather thinks that he is dispelling that belief by claiming that bug could not have evolved....it just had to suddenly exist....but that also means, "bang, here something is, deal with it, that's how it happened." If you want to take on the further thinking of, "well, god took his time creating this living thing and then put it into existence." That's evolving, though. "To come forth gradually into being - to develop," is exactly the definition of the word. So, I have to present this baseline logic and ask.........which does he only believe in.....or is it that he actually believe in both? I think it's possible to absolutely believe in both. I find nothing wrong with it. Because, again, remember that science is nothing but the deep research, study and experimentation of how / what / why things only are. If you attribute any god to being the creator of all existence, it makes no sense to deny all that we can learn and via the only ways possible to learn about how / what / why it works. The further research and study of changes in creation over long periods of time (attributed to anything in creation having the abilities to do so), also doesn't dispel any god creating creatures with said capabilities in the first place. In fact, if anything even remotely touches upon what some would consider blasphemy, I would think it's more in terms of ever once thinking a god couldn't or didn't know how to create all of us with such awesome abilities to evolve / adapt. Isn't is worse to think your god is limited or just came up really short in every design of theirs, compared to the evident and way more obvious understanding that everything on or about this planet probably still has untapped potential and then some..?

Still, I watch and listen to anyone's theories and such. It's all learning, so long as we don't stop asking questions.
 
I think a creature can have some minor adaptations. Take ourselves for example, if you are used to a certain climate and then move to a colder one for instance you will be really freezing when the locals are not for the first year or two but gradually adjust. A few years later you will not be getting your coat out until others are. I don't; however, believe that creatures evolve into entirely different creatures. I believe that they were created to be what they are.
 
I have to believe it (at least some) because I know about Bull Sharks and several reptiles undergoing / forcing their biology to physically change to live in quite different environments, and these things have happened in just my lifetime. Decades - not thousands or millions of years. It might be worth finding out if this same professional in the video is aware of such, now.
 

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