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 basic thing to understand here are the time scales, e.g. we talk about WW2 as a very long time ago, the roman empire is ancient history, etc. but it is nothing compared to 2 million years, let alone 2 billion years ago
evolution works slowly, it appears it’s standing in a single lifetime, but as soon as you start increasing the time scales it’s obvious… e.g. 100K years ago dogs did not exist, only wolves, and all the dog breeds you see today are products of human selection
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