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you're making no sense at all.....bringing in random and meaningless examples and contradicting yourself........Yes, evolution stopped for cockroaches. Not ended, but stopped or paused. Because there is no significant "selective pressure" for them. If there is a situation where a new form of selective pressure arises, evolution will start again. I am not sure of exact traits of cockroaches which make them excellent survivors though. About brain, you are looking at only one possibility where in becoming more and more intelligent is beneficial. But it may not be so. For example, have you ever wondered why other mammal babies start walking/swimming within hours to weeks but humans take years? because our brain is bigger and during childbirth, it will kill the mother if brain is fully formed in the womb. So, all humans are born with premature brain and it matures outside of mother's body. Now imagine a situation where brain gets bigger and starts an increase in child and mother's mortality (thus negative pressure).. then brain will start shrinking again (species gets "dumber"). It all depends on what is best suited for surviving. Humans are not exceptional. There have been "other humans" with matching intelligence who died out (well, most probably because of us). So, nothing exceptional when you look at echidna, platipus, bat etc etc.. that is every single species on earth today is exceptional in one or the other way. That is why it is a separate species. No need to bring any unseen entities like god or aliens in the equation..
What "other humans with matching intelligence" you're talking about??...did you discover a new subgroup of primates??.....and if their intelligence were indeed 'matching', then why did they die out because of us??.......makes no sense.
I've never heard that evolution can be 'paused'.....not in school/college text books, not in any science journal, not in the internet, nowhere. You're probably the first person to propose it, you can publish your 'theory' in science journals so that the scientific community takes notice......
Regarding brain size, both human and other animal brains mature after birth.....the fact that animals start walking almost instantly after birth while humans cannot, has more to do with strong leg muscles than brain maturity.........and your 'bigger brain size leading to increase in mother and child mortality' theory is absurd because, most of the growth takes place after birth.....
Your belief in the 'theory of evolution' is as strong as those who don't believe in it at all......people of both groups try to justify their beliefs at all cost...even at the cost of logic........You're probably not aware that the 'scientific community' accepts the strong points as well as the drawbacks of the 'Theory of Evolution'....
I've brought in entities like 'God' and 'aliens' and provided the logic behind it, but you're discarding them without any logic.....you just want to prove that 'evolution' is right by hook or crook.....but you don't seem to realize that when you vouch for something, you cannot use words like, "I am not sure", "may not be so", "most probably" etc.....
P.S: I am neither a creationist nor an evolutionist 'cause both has their strong and weak points.....and so, I can vouch for none.
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