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Freepik.com. Eight million species on earth have different baby development. The idea in evolutionary theory is that accidental random mutations occur in millions of animals in their cells and that they are mostly not beneficial but somehow this natural selection allows the most useful ones to survive and so on. ( Again don’t trust me on my interpretation of it from Google ) But i don’t quite get it and wonder how can anyone be content to accept it and tell others that this is fact.

For a start you’d have to wonder what is this mutation thing and then try and understand it by reading about it and then even if it was understandable you’d have to ponder how the mutations and genes and DNA sort of know that they have to mutate themselves and how the cells or whole bodies do the mutation thing and get it right every time in the end of say allowing our male and females that once didn’t exist to change from species to species and still fancy each other and to get the bits and pieces right to make babies in a new species.

Also it is more than just the male and female physical body plans evolving at the same time as each other. To our perception female faces look like female faces and male faces look like male faces. That surely is not a quirk of random mutations being chosen by natural selection. We have to have that perception ability in the first place. No evolutionary pressure like changes in landscapes or climate has anything to do with that perception. Male and female faces are distinctly different, and one could conclude that that is for a reason, rather than a chance happening.

Being able to distinguish between males and females faces is again another phenomena. That perception is instant. What is that perception. Perception has to be immediate and it is. We can’t conjecture that the perception of being able to perceive the difference in male and female faces evolved. There are billions of perceptions. I can’t quite see why i see in the image below why they look like female and male faces. Even if you took away the hair , the difference would still be there. Same features. Worth a think about later. For now , no idea.
Oh that’s quite something. I can’t see why one face looks female and why the other looks male and yet i see one as female and the other as male straight away in less than a second.
It feels that whatever is necessary exists and knowing that one is a man and one is a woman is necessary. We’d hardly give the word necessary the status of the word evolution , but it surely shouldn’t be ruled out that necessity comes before our physical evolution ideas. Animals 500 million years ago knew like us instantly these differences and made babies

Image by Wikimedia Commons, Autisticeditor 20

Using again the easiness of conjecture: if we were to imagine that there was no difference between the male and female faces then life would not be like it is. Somehow though, we do see the difference.

If as well , all voice boxes were physically identical then we wouldn’t know who we were listening to or looking at. Conjecturing away, it might be that genes ensure that this doesn’t happen and that is what genes do. The genes ensure that no two animals are physically alike. But it just doesn’t seem possible that our ideas of random mutations and natural selection have anything to do with it. If that was the case then we’d have to conjecture that the genes themselves evolved using the same conjectures.

Using the word genes seems magical. Include as well DNA then all thinking stops. What do they have in them that explains how a penguin fancies another penguin.

Back on all humans looking different. It’s quite some doing when you consider that in a country with say 60 million people , no two people have the same looking face or same sounding voice. Even with identical twins there is enough difference to make them distinguishable. You and me will not find on earth out of just todays population of over eight billion people find another person that looks like or sounds like us. If all bodies and voice boxes were physically the same we might say that the consciousness/mind thing in all of us is the same thing. Your consciousness could be the same as mine. Getting a bit flowery but worth a thought.

But given enough time , is it possible that eventually a whole human will look and sound exactly like someone from the past. Does the amount of configurations of say just faces run out. Imagine in a million years someone looking at books or youtube and they see an exact likeness to themselves. In the same way , it is wondered if in music that there will eventually be no more melodies to be brought about. The finding of music melodies has only been going for say a few decades or maybe a few generations , but are they limitless. Will new music melodies come about in say a million years time. Of course though , we can use the same melodies and add words to the existing melodies to describe our new environment or new love , but will new melodies in music and new human faces be different to any that existed in the past.

It is then beyond belief that toes with toe nails on the feet exist because of random mutations and natural selection, never mind how any animal fancies another. Any animal can instantly perceive a female or male face. The perceiving of seeing a face as being a male or female is not a triviality. 500 million years ago , all animals had the perception to know which animal in their own species was a the male or female. The evolving of that perception obviously can’t be backed up by fossils. It’s quite clear though , that that ability is a necessity and is not something that evolved.

Back to toe nails on the end of toes at the end of the feet on the end of the legs. That isn’t shown to have evolved using fossil evidence either. The fossil evidence shows whole animals that have existed or do exist. Nothing else. Just conjectures to try and link them all up as having evolved from one to the other. The fossils show that animals had these features from the start. Flesh is flesh , bones are bones, and eyes are eyes. If there were no apes or monkeys we would conjecture that we evolved from some other animal that had eyes and ears like say a frog.

Also a lot seems to rely on the thinking that an animal has lots of babies to allow natural selection to choose the best ones with those best mutations. That is again conjecture. There could be lots of reasons for animals having lots of babies.

One might be that having lots of babies ensures that both male and female animals exist in the future. If say all human couples had only one baby, then over millions of years there would be times when say in a hundred generations in one family only males are born. A bit like throwing a dice for a long time. Over time you’d throw a hundred sixes facing upwards in a row. If you had lots of dices though it wouldn’t matter since the other dices would be facing upwards with the other numbers.

Not saying here that chance is involved or not involved like the above or that life is trying to rule out those sort of chances happening . Just saying that it is easy to come up with conjectures and that natural selection is just a conjecture. If it existed we would all have by now have the same best eye colour and hair colour , be the same height , have the best strength etc. But we don’t. We all look different to each other. Those differences could be brought about more because of as mentioned above the illusive type of idea like necessity.

Adding on to chance though, Google search says that there is a very close to a 50 to 50 chance of any human couple having a boy or girl. But today there are billions of humans whereas once upon a time there were just a few. So say there were 20 humans living in a village thousands of years ago then it would have to be ensured that a good amount of both male and female were born. It couldn’t be imagined that you’d only have to have one female because she could in the chance thing with so few people living in the village in a row just have boys.

And before even that number of humans living near each other there would have been even less humans living near each other before villages and settlements existed, so it would have to be guaranteed that other male and females are born since in such a small population you might get all males being born and no females. Natural selection could not work on such small numbers of the earliest humans or any other animal or plant for everything that exists today.

Since males and females came to exist in the first place their future would more likely use whatever they used to exist in the first place and not use our conjectured natural selection idea of choosing the best accidental random mutations.

Like the senses that are all or nothing (not the physical eyes or ears or noses , but the sight or sound themselves of which we know nothing) , the phenomena of a male and female not existing one day then existing the next day can not have evolved. The phenomena of males and females exists in one instance like the seeing or hearing.

Listing other phenomenas would be endless too. No other phenomenas like a butterfly or a tomato or a mosquito would rely on our conjectures. It isn’t just about the physicality of them. It is the idea of them. They once didn’t exist , then they all come about and somehow either produce seeds or move about and find a partner. Surely the physicality of them would use whatever they used to exist in the first place.

So just on the phenomena of males and females , why would that phenomena come about and need to use accidental random mutations and natural selection to continue. They obviously wouldn’t , and surely didn’t.

Next chapter. Plants and trees and flowers.

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