Before anyone comes for me, I grew up southern baptist – went to a private christian school & was homeschooled for a few years. The extent of my “science” education when it came to evolution & the origin of the universe was “if we came from monkeys why do monkeys still exist?” and “look at this galaxy that’s shaped like a cross, isn’t god amazing!!” I’m an atheist now and would like to have some sort of understanding of how our world came to be, but trying to figure it out as an adult with no real foundation has been incredibly difficult, and none of it’s making sense. I also know I’m asking a lot as all 3 of those subjects are pretty extensive, so if you know any good videos or books I’d love some recommendations!
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The thing with evolution is it’s RANDOM mutations of genes. The neat little trees you see are highly condensed “tech tree like” pathways of evolution and not representative of how it actually works.
For example: an animal could randomly evolve blue eyes, another brown, a third black. These are completely random mutations. What drives evolution is that certain traits make the animal more likely to survive long enough in its environment to reproduce, and these genes get passed on. If the animal with black eyes somehow manages to survive longer than the others, then more black eyed animals would be born.
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