Originally posted by ah_lau2:
To say that monkeys banging on the typewriter will result in Julius
Caeser is as good as saying a million dinosaurs giving birth will
one day result in a human baby being born from a dinosaur. Which is
what you think evolution is, isn't it?
If monkeys were to bang on the typewriter, I'm sure they will come
up with words such as you, me, is, are and more. If
you take these
words and stick them on the typewriter such that when the monkeys
bang on each button, each word comes out, they will be able to form
sentences. Again, if you take each sentence and stick it in the
keyboard, eventually, they will be able to form paragraphs. After
paragraphs, you will be able to form chapters. I'm sure, millions
and millions of years later, you might get an essay or book. Maybe
not exactly Julio Caesar, but something nonetheless. Maybe you can
look at each word as protozoas, each sentence as invertebrates,
each paragraph as vertebrates and each chapter as mammals, if it
helps you. This is the concept of evolution and roughly how it
works. I'm just adapting it to your monkeys banging on typewriter
analogy. Of course, there many more factors and complications at
work.
You seem only to want to have a shallow concept of evolution. Why
is that?
who's..... you?
funny thing is.... in your example above, there is still the YOU,
that manipulated the typewriter... some monkeys banging on the
keyboard will only come up with some form of words and no
intelligent sentences. There was this need of a YOU to put the
words onto the typewriter, thereby changing the environment and
increasing the odds of a sentence being formed.....
so I ask again.... who's you? 
perhaps..... God?
but as I'd said, time eternal, people greater than you and I had
debated on this, and there is no conclusion one way or another. We
feel about this issue because of what we embrace as "truth" and
"faith".
... but thanks for increasing the rating for this month.
