@Romeo Fabulini,
Romeo Fabulini wrote:
...In other words he's saying wingless creatures were in the habit of jumping out of trees and getting splatted until suddenly one was born with wings and was able to land safely!...
Yes, I guess you can disprove any idea if you misrepresent it. Not much of an accomplishment. The absolute minimum requirement for informed debate is the ability to correctly state your opponent's position. Misstating it and then shooting it down signifies nothing.
For a trait to develop, there has to be a path to it such that at every stage of development, the creature bearing the trait is slightly better off than at the previous stage. The changes occur very slowly, step by step, over millions of years. The first stages, for instance, might have been under water, where creatures with certain shapes were able to glide through the water more easily. Evolution augmented this slowly and later, when they began spending part of their time on land, it may have translated to the ability to hop slightly farther. I don't know if that is the case, but the changes occur very, very slowly, in immense populations, over vast amounts of time. Hardly, creatures jumping to their doom until one is suddenly born with wings.
If you're going to disagree with us, disagree with what we actually believe.
