ttystikk
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Have you read Darwin's Origin of Species? I have. I've read up quite a bit on evolution.That statement, in and of itself, completely contradicts the entire theory of evolution.
If you're going to buy in to evolution, you have to buy in to the idea that all things are created equal. That nature and chance dictate everything.
That's not true with humans. We had no better chance than anything else. In fact, your argument on its entire face is completely wrong.
Again: Dinosaurs alone had over a QUARTER OF A BILLION YEARS and couldn't amount to much. We've been around LESS THAN A MILLION. Literally, 1/1000th of the time.
Dinosaurs actually had a better world to live in than we did and couldn't pull it off. Not even close.
Your problem is that you keep making statements like most humans do: you by default assume we were superior from the get go.
If that is true, then you just blew the entire theory of evolution out of the water...because nature doesn't play favorites.
If it is false (and it is) then there is some missing information that explains us that we don't yet know.
Not surprisingly, the later is true. We know more about a T-Rex than we do about us. How the hell is that possible?
This is going to sound weird, but in order to see the universe in it's pure state, you have to step outside your humanity. Be the T-Rex. Ask questions from his point of view.
Why were we so "magically" favored? How is that even possible in a true evolutionary system?
Answer: it isn't.
Nothing I've said above contradicts evolutionary theory in any way.
Dinosaurs were not intelligent species, even if they were well suited to their environment. In fact, evolutionary theory clearly states that evolution happens quickly, in steps, often big ones, in response to a change in environment.
The only animal that deliberately changes its own environment- by altering it- are humans.
The rest is accelerating technological development and the geometric curve of knowledge growth over time is the evidence.
T-Rex was a classic apex predator, once it assumed the top spot there was no need to change.