Why are Panda Bears still around? Darwin says "no."?

For some time now I've been looking upon Panda bears with some amazement. They've been an endangered species for a really long time but still they are here. Well, a few of them anyway. These creatures seem to be on earth just to make fun of us and science. Why are these bears still here? Some time, way back, they've decided to stop eating meat and start eating bamboo instead. Any bamboo? No just the young parts of certain bamboo subspecies. In order to get enough out of these plants they have to eat these things for hours and hours per day, otherwise they would starve. This keeps the Panda so busy that they don't have enough time to do anything else and it's still not enough food to make them do more than just wander around a bit. They hardly ever have sex, they hardly reproduce and yet, they are still amongst us. When in captivity these creatures are really picky and refuse to reproduce at all! The fact that there are still Panda bears can in no way be explained by the Theory qncy- man can only do so much. as I have previously noted, pandas usually never reproduce in a non-natural environment

Public Comments

  1. because they are protected, and man helps them survive. if we didn't, they would have been gone a long time ago.
  2. You are exactly right. The only explination for anything in the world is that God made it. There are so many amazing things and man is so prideful that he thinks he has the answers.
  3. Theory is nothing but theory.
  4. Panda bears are more of an argument in favour of evolution than against it. Evolutionary theory says that natural selection is to some extent random. Not all of the changes within a population will necessarily be beneficial. In some cases, a whole species can head off down what looks like a dead end. If nothing much competes with them though, they could survive for millions of years anyway. Some species, like pandas and koalas, survive by eating foodstuffs that are not very nutritious because there are no other species that can eat them at all. Their evolutionary advantage is to have a food source that no one else wants. So they don't have to be particularly mobile or energetic to beat off their competitors. Oh, and if we accept that they are a dud species, wouldn't you rather believe that they evolved by chance than that God/aliens/Intelligent Designers screwed up the design process so badly?
  5. we owe it to them we jacked their space where they lived and killed most of them off
  6. Straw man argument eh? More like a bamboo bear argument. Sorry, ducky, I don't think Mr. Darwin suggested that emergence of one species from another has anything to do with the survival or otherwise of the original species, or that a threatened species has to die off in a few days or even a few centuries. Evolution is a fact, not a theory. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had a theory about evolution. Charles Darwin had a better one. It was fairly correct but not complete and has been improved. That's science working. The evidence for evolution covers hundreds of library shelves in publications like Journal of Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science, Nature, Comptes Rendues, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA and hundreds of other journals in English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Spanish just to name some. These include every geological, biological and medical topic known to humans and are chock-a-block full of facts that support evolution directly or are consistent with it. The evidence for evolution is also all around us and includes everyday “non-scientific” observations 1. The anatomical arrangements of land mammals are analogous to each other. For instance, horses breathe through their mouths or two nostrils just as humans do, rather than through holes in their sides. Fish, reptiles, birds and mammals have two eyes and one mouth. Lizards, humans and eagles have four limbs, one heart, one set of lungs, one set of digestive organs, one brain, two ears and so on and so forth. These numbers do not vary across very wide differences in environment and immediate heredity. 2. Nearly all land animals (excepting insects, spiders etc) have red blood. 3. Pig insulin has been used to treat human diabetes. The evidence for creation consists of an old English translation of a 2500 year old book written by people who had never been outside their own country and now thoroughly misinterpreted by a few, mainly American based pastors whose education is mostly in a peculiar form of theology. The physical evidence cited by creationists such as the bombardier beetle, the Paluxy footprints and a few dozen other phenomena has been thoroughly debunked many times. In some cases the "evidence" has been concocted and at worst is no more than a direct lie. Most of the material they cite as evidence for intelligent design is nothing of the kind and in some cases actually shows that the design is faulty. The human eye is a glaring example. Some creationists have claimed that there is conspiracy against them and that scientists are hiding the truth. Sheer paranoia and no different in kind from the nonsense promoted by alien abduction ratbags. There are millions of scientists of one kind or another today. If the truth were being hidden by scientists there must be thousands of them in on it. Some must have come out with real testable evidence that the truth is being hidden by now. The only secure conspiracy is a conspiracy of one. The poor mugs who actually believe the creationists have been warned to ignore counter arguments as the work of Satan. Of course they have. If they saw they were being sold a bill of shoddy goods their financial contributions might peter out.
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