Evolution’s Explanation for Male and Female

"Ray Comfort replied to 'Raoul Rheits: Raoul...Good question. You briefly explain to me evolution's explanation of why almost every kind of animal, human beings, bird, fish and insect have both male and female. How did it begin, why it happened, and we will take it from there. Thanks.' You didn't ask me, and brief explanations work better for simpler subjects than how reproductive biology changed over a couple of billion years along myriad branching paths…Large-scale adaptive change is simply the accumulation of small-scale adaptive change: just as poodles, Chihuahuas, German shepherds, etc. all have males and females of the breed because they were bred from a common dog ancestor that had males and females, ladybird beetles, penguins, trout, and humans have males and females because they inherited this two-sexed condition from a last common ancestor that already had male and female. Well, at least, this is true of trout, penguins, and us; our last common ancestor with insects may have been hermaphroditic, with distinct sexes evolving separately in arthropods and vertebrates. It wouldn't take much for a hermaphroditic species to produce a mutant that had only one kind, rather than both kinds, of reproductive organs (it could still mate with individuals that had both kinds). Steven J."

So, your belief is that all present dogs exist because there was a male and female dog in the beginning--"they were bred from a common dog ancestor that had males and females." Then, with no explanation of how they got there or why they became male and female, you say "our last common ancestor with insects may have been hermaphroditic" and do the same thing again. You don’t give any explanation as to why there was a male and female insect in the beginning--they all "have males and females because they inherited this two-sexed condition from a last common ancestor that already had male and female."

Your belief is truly nebulous and may cloud the thinking of the simple, but not those who think a little deeper. You are saying that they just "were." There were male and female animals, male and female birds, male and female insects, male and female fish, and male and female human beings.

Your belief is in a childlike fairy tale for grownups. That would be okay with me if you didn’t deceive others with your meaningless eloquence, and at the same time poison them against the truth.

Here’s another attempt to explain the existence of male and female throughout the whole of creation:

J Diver said "It's rather simple really. First you have to realize your presupposition that all animals were created male and female is demonstrably WRONG. Many of the lower animals are hermaphrodites. Specifically earthworms, tapeworms. corals, and several species of fish are both male AND female at the same time! All it takes at that point is a quick and simple mutation and *poof*.... those that have a single sex become more successful at reproduction or their offspring become more viable. All you have to do is open a book Ray. It's not that hard."

It’s magical. It's all rather simple really. It’s like having a fairy-godmother, without having a fairy-godmother. "Poof." It all happened by itself. Just read and believe. It’s easy.