Can someone tell me what Darwin theory is? Is it related to thermodynamics? Does it have something to do with the way a foot leaves an impression in a mud brick?

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      Except much stupider because humans had been around for hundreds of thousands of years before that. Even if you just restrict ‘humans’ to our own species, we arose around 300,000 years ago.

      Somehow they think that because, according to an Anglican archbishop’s interpretation of the Bible, the world started in 4004 BCE, this proves it.

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    4000 years ago humans were farming, living in cities and just starting to figure out writing.

    Given how nicely centered the impression is, this was probably intentional, a very old foot selfie.

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        Even our oldest common ancestors were only 2.2-2.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens is only about 250,000 years ago, and we basically instantly domesticated dogs. We’ve had dogs for 200,000 years.

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          The dog is a wolf-like canid.[7][8][9] The genetic divergence between the dog’s ancestor and modern wolves occurred between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, just before or during the Last Glacial Maximum[2][1] (20,000–27,000 years ago). This timespan represents the upper time-limit for the commencement of domestication because it is the time of divergence but not the time of domestication, which occurred later.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_dog

          We domesticated them roughly twice as far back as we domesticated cats (12,000y). Cats became domesticated alongside the use of agriculture. Cats started spending time around humans because agriculture brought prey for them (rodents, etc) to places where humans resided.

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    4000 years ago people were already trying to make machines with gears and stuff, what the fuck are you on about?

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    Pretty sure the people who think evolution is a crock just don’t understand biology, whether to shit teachers or defunct critical thinking.

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    No, no, you guys don’t get it - the “mud brick” was a science device used in an experiment comparing genetics and carbon dating! The top part of the brick was used to display results in a clear way - if a footprint showed up that meant that some future Darwin* guy will be full of shit. If a cock-print showed up Darwin would be correct.

    *and his grandpa and thousands of years other people that debated and outlined in detail the exact same theory but could never gather enough evidence to go against the Church - I mean people bred livestock and mushed up plants to get the selected traits to their offsprings since before written language, ofc evolution was a known process (not to mention family members looking alike with same traits)

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        I mean, theoretically yes, sure, but how would you counter the electromagnetic fields to even get close enough to harness it?

        (Also if a foot/cock mud brick actually displays a foot-cock then it’s bricked, you need to manually restart it, recharge it, and leave it to sundry. A footcock is an ancient predecessor of dickbutt, now sadly an extinct, lost, and long forgotten meme from dead civilisations.)

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    I wish I could ask them how do you think it would take for one species to evolve into two separate ones?