If evolution is true why have we stopped evolving?

Answer 1

Answer 1
Evolution has occurred and is still occurring. Evolution and speciation occurs after a large amount of generations have past. Combined with the long life expectancy of humans and modern medicine, any noticeable changes would take a long time.

It is not an overnight process.
Answer according to modern science:

First you must determine the definition of Evolution.

According to all the definitions of the original theory it only means this: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 1977: Evolution: "a process of change in a certain direction"; "a process of change from a lower, simpler or worse to a higher, more complex or better state";

The believers in (old school) evolution have changed the meaning to simple say "change over time" and that is soambiguousthat it can hardly be called a theory. It amazes me that anyone would call "change over time of creatures and life" as a theory. Everything changes all the time. That is not a theory that is Law. In science we seek to understand what we see, not what we want to see. And the Truth is often not to our emotional liking. That does not mean we have toignoreit for political reasons or because it is not a happy reality.

This is why the original definition was much moreappropriateto what they thought they were seeing.

With the advent of modern DNA studies on humans we can see there is no progress in a positive direction towards more complexity nor more health or better fitness in any creature we have studied.

There are 600,000 papers on PubMed on documenting the actual condition of humans today and the history contained in DNA.

There are 50,000 and more deleteriousmutations causing genetic diseases found so far and we have just really starteddocumentingthe links between diseases and DNA, so the numbers are going up at an alarming rate.

One disease MS has been associated with over 1000 deleterious mutations.

WE know these 50,000+ deleterious mutations cause diseases because we can see the prior fit condition in human living now who do not have a particular disease and their DNA has proper healthy cell replication. The healthy cell replication shows the proper DNA coding to make correct cells.

The mutations are found by comparison between healthy and sick people.

There are no verifiable positive mutations ever found in human DNA.

The facts are clear also that we have lost fitness and health and intelligence as we progress. This is with cause ofcourse. The cause is fetal fixed deleterious mutations.

There are found over 20,000 "pseudo genes" thatrepresentwhat scientists believe to be completely shut off genes that no longer replicate cells. We have lost the GULO gene for processing Vitamin C. We have lost olfactory sensors. We have lost theabilityto digestfibrousvegetation(the appendix is reduced in function). We have lost bone density, muscle strength, eye site strength and our visual spectrum and night vision, has been reduced. We have lost skull size and brain size. We have lost jaw size (why the wisdom teeth don't fit any more). There has never been found in any DNA study a report of any "new genes" with new functions.

Because there is only evidence in DNA of genetic losses and DNA mutations according to the University ofBerkeley:

“Mutation is a change in DNA, the hereditary material of life. An organism's DNA affects how it looks, how it behaves, and its physiology — all aspects of its life. So a change in an organism's DNA can cause changes in all aspects of its life.”

And:

“Mutation that occurs in reproductive cells and ends up being carried by gametes (e.g., eggs and sperm).””

The only mutations that matter to large-scale evolution are those that can be passed on to offspring. These occur in reproductive cells like eggs and sperm and are called

germ line mutations

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Doctor Gerald Crabtree states that humans were more intelligent from his study of human DNA. He believes we peaked in intelligence about 3000 years ago.

Fetal fixed germ line mutations are caused mostly, by far, from viral infections at the time of conception or during the first cells being replicated. Virus enters the host cells and can cause cancer and also causes mutations. It is mutations in these first cells that aretransmittedto all the further generations.

Other causes of fetalmutations but areobviouslyno where near thenumberof mutations being caused as from diseases:

• Ionizing radiation atthe

  time of conception or during early gestation.

• Toxic chemicals effecting the fetus
• Drugs and even prescription drugs
• Alcohol (also a drug) mothers drink during pregnancy.

All of this is verifiable from many hundreds of thousands of scientific papers and from medical research.

Humans have not stopped evolving. Traits are still percolating throughout the human gene pool, or fading from it. However, for one to see significant morphological change requires a comparison between populations that are a sufficient number of generations apart, or a speciation event coinciding with rapid divergence. Since the human species uses its intellect and technology to overcome any geographical boundary, and since interbreeding between human populations - if one can speak of separate populations to start with - is very common, further divergence between populations is not expected. This might change if humans ever manage to colonize space.