Lol- Hyenas, lions, and Leopards also hunt Gazelles and neither the Hyena, Lion, or Leopard is even remotely close to being fast as the cheetah- so that completely destroys the info you copied and pasted- you are making absolutely no sense at all nor does your logic.
Also, Gomorrhea didn't evolve it becomes resistant those are 2 different meanings- a boxer is more than likely able to absorb a punch better than you or I not because a boxer has evolved, but because the Boxer spars in the gym- has a rigid work out and when the boxer trains he is trained to withstand blows that would knock you and I out- so did the boxer evolve a better body or a stronger chin???
Your arguments and replies are so comical and elementary. So if cheetahs evolved faster to chase and capture Gazelles- well golly geez- you would think a sloth after thousands of years would have evolved into something much faster- Jaguars hunts sloths and so do eagles- who both have no trouble grabbing the slow moving sloth- wow I wonder why the sloth hasn't developed something that will make him out run his predators- give it up exoticdancer you have yet to produce one logical response.
Originally Posted by wellendowed1911
The mistake you keep making over and over is that you think everything must evolve in the same direction.
The cheetah adapted over time to become faster and faster in order to catch the fasted prey. A lot of little improvements over time added up to a fast animal. But it also made the cheetah very weak in other respects. It's body overheats rapidly and it runs out of breath quickly. It is all burst and no endurance. After 30-60 second of running the cheetah has to rest for 15-15 minutes.
Lions adapted for power and mass rather than speed. They may not catch a gazelle, but they do not need to. They can bring down the big but slow water buffalo that would kill a cheetah.
A sloth does not need to outrun its predators. It climbs high up in trees and hangs upside down from branches. Lions and cheetahs cannot get to them. Therefore, there is no evolutionary advantage if a sloth has a genetic variation that makes it a little faster than other sloths. It does not survive in larger numbers than the slow sloths and does not procreate more often.
And somebody made a ridiculous comparison to evolution being like laying out the parts of a machine and coming back years later and finding a fully assembled machine. That's a dumbass comparison.
The machine parts are not living. They do not have offspring. Their non-existent offspring do not have genetic variations that may confer on them a reproductive advantage.
Instead, the machine parts will lie on the ground and rust and deteriorate until nothing is left.
By contrast, if you take a bunch of living creatures and leave them alone for a million years, when you come back you will find that the original living creature, like the original machine parts are all DEAD. However, their offspring after many generations may have evolved into something radically different.
That's how evolution works.