Maybe I am coming at this the wrong way, but can someone explain how evolution would even get off the ground?
If we start near the beginning (if there is such a thing) where we have a single-celled organism (how that organism came about we can leave to another discussion), how did it become multi-cellular? With the little biology I know, single-celled organisms reproduce by creating an exact copy of themselves. Without sexual reproduction, then there is no change in the next creature that comes out. That leaves us to random mutations to somehow create more complex living multi-cellular organisms.
Now I may be wrong, but if I remember from my biology book, mutations are most of the time harmful (if not always -- especially dealing at this level of simplicity, mess with anything and it will probably die).
Maybe this idea deals more with cell theory, but it seems to be a large hole to how evolution would even start/work.
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Maybe I am coming at this the wrong way, but can someone explain how evolution would even get off the ground? If we start near the beginning (if there is such a thing) where we have a single-celled organism (how that organism came about we can leave to another discussion), how did it become multi-cellular? With the little biology I know, single-celled organisms reproduce by creating an exact copy of themselves. Without sexual reproduction, then there is no change in the next creature that comes out. That leaves us to random mutations to somehow create more complex living multi-cellular organisms. Now I may be wrong, but if I remember from my biology book, mutations are most of the time harmful (if not always -- especially dealing at this level of simplicity, mess with anything and it will probably die). Maybe this idea deals more with cell theory, but it seems to be a large hole to how evolution would even start/work.