# Evolution and "large leaps" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evolution-and-large-leaps/619462 "2012-04-20T23:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evolution-and-large-leaps/619462/21 "2012-04-21T01:15:55Z")
Hunter gatherers. My acronyms are showing. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evolution-and-large-leaps/619462/22 "2012-04-21T01:16:34Z")
Ah, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evolution-and-large-leaps/619462/23 "2012-04-21T02:36:53Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > There’s no trick here, and I’m not a creationist looking for holes. I just can’t imagine that there was not one step in the process that didn’t produce a non-benefit. If a car was evolving, for example, surely the first rubber patch that began a tire wouldn’t do jack, and that mutation would just die out. But tires did develop in stages – we did NOT just jump from wooden wagon wheels to inflated pneumatic rubber tires. There were various steps along the way, like wooden carriage wheels with a rubber strip on the outside, solid rubber (non-inflated) tires, etc. (Not that this has any connection to evolution, since tires are not a living organism, but a machine developed by humans.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evolution-and-large-leaps/619462.md?page=1)