Did the ozone layer evolve so it could protect humans? Did the sun put itself where it needed to be so we wouldn’t fry (or freeze)? I’m very interested in this force you speak of and its role in the theory of evolution.
You assume evolution is true because these are words from men. So is the Bible.
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Environments don't evolve to fit their inhabitants.
I find the ToE to be true because of the mountains of evidence which support it. I am, however, impressed that you admit that the Bible is words from men, rather than that tired claim that it is the word of your imaginary friend.
The ozone layer is not a species, not even a member of any kind of species. Same goes for the sun.
You assume evolution is true because these are words from men. So is the Bible
Yep, the Bible is just words from men; evolution, on the other hand, has quite a bit of evidence to back it up.
Did the ozone layer evolve so it could protect humans?
No. Humans evolved to fit a world with an ozone layer, just as white people evolved in regions of diminished sunlight.
No, it's the other way around; the life-forms on Earth evolved to fit the protection that the ozone layer gives.
The sun existed long before Earth was "born". Earth happened to end up in the area where conditions are opportune for life to exist.
There is no force involved in the theory of evolution. It's just survival and procreation. I assume evolution is true because it has been verified and observed, and there is literally mountains of evidence in its favor. The Bible, on the other hand, is contradictory and hasn't got an ounce of evidence in its favor.
Well, technically, the ozone layer did evolve. When the first oxygen-producing bacteria started pumping the stuff into the atmosphere, the sun's UV radiation interacted with it, producing ozone. That ozone made it possible for life as we know it to exist in places that would otherwise have killed it outright.
Basically... Life managed to transform its environment in order to facilitate its own growth. But it didn't show up in order to protect humans. It was nothing more than an accident of chemistry that worked out in our favour. If the ozone layer didn't exist, we wouldn't have developed in the first place to ask the question.
"You assume evolution is true because these are words from men. So is the Bible."
First part is incorrect. Second part.... so so so so so so so true. Now just decide whether or not that last part should mean something to you....
Is this dork saying there's no such thing as an ozone layer?!
Will this ignoramus say there's no such thing as gravity, next? Jump of a cliff, fubarjay666, I DARE YA!
Evolution makes organisms fit a 'gap'.
We adapted to survive on this planet, the planet wasn't made for us to survive on. Hence why we have areas that are incredibly hard (or impossible) to survive in. For example, deserts, the arctic and the antarctic. If the world was made for use, I *think* everywhere would be temperate.
Another one who do not understand evolution.
The sun is not here so it can fit us, we are here because of the location of this planet around its star. Had the Earth not been in the habitable zone around our star, there would have been no life on Earth.
School - you failed!
The "finely tuned universe" argument?
If the universe is so wonderfully created for us to exist in, why is 99.999% of it lethal to us?
Is the ozone layer a living thing? No, therefore it didn't evolve, you cretin. Also, nothing evolves for a predetermined reason. Predestination is nonsense.
The rest of the post has just as little to do with evolution.
No, we don't assume that evolution us true because 'these are words from men". We accept that evolution can and has occurred because that's what all the actual evidence (the fossil record and fossil transitional series, genetic and peptide homologies, conserved retroviral insertions, pseudogenes and transposons, biogeographic distribution of species, convergence of independent phylogenies, atavisms, vestigial structures, etc., etc.) indicates.
That's like saying your room didn't grow around you, so evolution must be false. Your room didn't grow around you because it isn't a biological organism, and neither is the ozone layer. It has nothing to do with evolution.
Ozone is produced whenever oxygen is exposed to ultraviolet light of the proper spectrum. Oxygen is found in the atmosphere. The Sun radiates the entire spectrum from far infrared through soft ultraviolet minus a few absorption lines.
Hence, sunlight impinging upon the atmosphere produces ozone. It is that simple. To see this for yourself, take a quartz mercury vapor bulb without phosphors and turn it on in the air. You will smell the pungent odor of ozone in seconds. QED
Ignoring the fact that evolution has nothing to do with anything but biology...
These arguments always tick me off. The Earth was not tailored for life, life evolved to tailor itself to the conditions of the Earth. That is why when conditions change, a species either adapts or goes extinct.
They have the cause and effect completely backwards.
"did the sun put itself where it needed to be so we wouldn't fry (or freeze)"
No, life on earth got lucky that we aren't too far or too close to the sun.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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