60 trillion events culminating to homsapiens?

it took an estimated 60 trillion " contingent events" ( events occurring that are required for the next event to occur ) to culminate the arrival of homsapiens. This to me is a big problem for those who believe in random accidental creatorless evolution because if you do the math of life starting 4 billion years ago and converted it into hours i would be a 35 trillion 40billion hours that translates to these events occuring on an average of just about 1 event an hour.


Is evolution really that fast and if so why has it suddenly in the last 250,000 years come to a vertual stand still.?


Can anyone who is itelectually honest explain how this is possible

60 trillion events culminating to homsapiens?
Evolution didn't "culminate" in Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens appeared during the course of evolution. And evolution certainly has not come to a virtual standstill in the last 250000 years! Where did you get that idea? Anatomically modern humans have only been around for 100000 years or so, and I think it's arguable that fully modern people only appeared about 40000 years ago.





Anyway, I don't know where that 60 trillion figure comes from. But given that there are, at any given time, trillions of organisms on the planet, one an hour doesn't seem absurd.
Reply:Well I actually went to the effort of tracking down your source:





"Harvard biologist Stephen J. Gould, who formulated the theory of punctuated equilibrium, stated in a PBS interview A Glorious Accident ca. 1991, by Dutch producer Wim Kayzer, “An accident is the 60 trillion contingent events that eventually led to the emergence of Homo Sapiens…" "





A number picked out of the air in a philosophical discussion. I think you've demonstrated extreme intellectual dishonesty.
Reply:well im sure 59.9 trillion of the events are stupid... like .... fish saw other fish... other fish swam away,... first fish chased second fish.... fish made love.... fish died before new fish born.... big fish ate dead body of small fish.... big fish had sex with another big fish.... big fish had baby fish that jumped out of water into air... flying fish
Reply:Evolution is not a faith!Faith requires belief in a thing. Evolution is about knowledge. Knowledge is about understanding a thing.





You talk about faith. Faith is believing snakes can talk, that floods can cover the entire earth and,that dead men get up and walk and talk. None of this has any proof at all except in a book that was cobbled together from different sources 1700 years ago. Then those sources that make up your book came from everywhere else including Iraq 3000-4000 years ago. None of it has any basis in fact at all compared with evolution.