Evolution

"I do not think that we are as un-advanced as to not be able to record such numbers." I do not understand what you mean. Please clarify. "Ok I think I need to go through this again with you, so the fern will have to develop combine genetic material on its own as it has no contact with other organisms, since it develops this as an individual it is incapable of reproducing due to the lack of another fern (It reproduces by cloning remember), so these genetics would never pass on, you attempted to combat this by saying that by a straw strand of DNA traveling through dirt (what?) to a fern bulb, and the majority of the fern bulbs cells being affected (enough to fight off the rest and still have enough left over to survive), and that this impossible incident occurred to more than one fern, this is impossible, so you write this paragraph, what is that paragraph supposed to mean, I got the part of you not knowing something, after that it"s un-understandable." I fully understand the topic, it seems you don't. Allow me to summarize and clarify the points. 1. Single cell organisms reproduce in a 'sexual' manner in order to preform homologous recombination which would repair the next generation's DNA to the norm. [1] 2. A fern originally reproduces asexually 3. Some ferns have parts of DNA damaged. 4. A mutation allowed for a primitive gamete cell(s) to be created. 5. A gamete cell would reach another fern without damaged DNA (Chances are there are some nearby), where it would preform homologous recombination in order to restore DNA. 6. With this newly repaired DNA, the cell creates another fern, with this 'homologous recombination' mutation. 7. This trait evolves into sexual reproduction as we know it today, as it has many benefits such as genetic diversity and faster creation of offspring. (Fern Info Used: [2][3]) I hope I have made it easy enough for you to comprehend. "I used the word adaptation to define the phenomenon where creatures develop traits as a result of recognizing the need for it, the other case is where these traits are random, I explained why adaptive evolution cannot cause a fern to develop flowers, then explained why random evolution could not either." I do not believe there are any cases of biological 'adaptive evolution' in the manner in which you are speaking of. I maybe wrong, but please provide a source. I have also proved why it is not impossible for 'random' evolution to occur with the ferns. "Yes, we know that humans originated in Africa, and that chimpanzees live in similar environment as the original humans did, so it would be more than reasonable for them to develop traits to said climate, this is not evolution, well it"s not evolution where a species can transform into another species, they can however adapt to situations, like what I am explaining, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz live in the same world, with the same natural laws, so they will observe those same laws and come to the same conclusion, like the chimp developing traits similar to a human because they both live in similar climates, but to say that the chimp will "evolve into a human is ridiculous, just a chimp with slightly different traits than other chimps." As I said before, you misunderstand evolution. I will repeat again, I do not believe there are any cases of biological 'adaptive evolution' in the manner in which you are speaking of. I maybe wrong, but please provide a source. And once more in this point you misunderstand me. Chimps do not evolve into human, but they share a common ancestor. [4] Round 5 should be summary, conclusion and final rebuttals, I believe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://www.shmoop.com... [3] http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu... [4] http://www.livescience.com...