Evolution (well, I like to call it EVIL-lution) doesn’t exist. This thread should be closed.

On a more serious note.. I dunno. Apparently they have no natural predators, but the sparkling is to attract humans.

Well, I don’t really agree with evolution either, but vampires are mythical creatures (yes, even Smeyerpires), so they wouldn’t evolve.

But if you want the truth, they sparkle because Smeyer thought it would be cool. There is no logical or even really an illogical explanation.

Being Christian doesn’t make you sparkly.

^ The Cullens are Christian? Aren’t vampires supposed to dislike crucifixes?

Well, I don’t really agree with evolution either, but vampires are mythical creatures (yes, even Smeyerpires), so they wouldn’t evolve.

I was /sarcasm.

But if you want the truth, they sparkle because Smeyer thought it would be cool.

Hear, hear.

Stephenie had realised that Edward would have to have some kind of feature that made him unable to go out in sunlight, but she could not bear to give her perfect Edward a handicap in any possible way. Thus, the sparkles.

And her perfectly developed main character would have to fall in love somehow.

Re: Meyer being a Christian

Mormonism is as far removed from Christianity as Islam is from Judaism.

But Mormons have The Ultimate Truth! ^TM How can you doubt them!

The Ultimate Truth being a pair of golden tablets that nobody has ever seen, translated into grammatically erroneous English by God himself, and plagiarizing the King James Bible.

^ And also claiming that Native Americans are descended from Southwest Asians instead of East Asians like those bio-anthropologists claim.

@BrandonP

Don’t forget that Heaven is basically screwing as many spirit-women as you can if you’re a guy, and being eternally pregnant with spirit-babies if you’re a gal.

@Virgil

If you’re talking about the Bible, that’s the first time that I’ve read about it being written by a commitee and changing dramatically over the years.

If you’re talking about the Bible, that’s the first time that I’ve read about it being written by a commitee and changing dramatically over the years.

You should look into the Bible more often then.

you guys, we are talking about sparkling vampires here. Please dont get into a fight over religion, okay? Be nice.

Sparkly skin… I think it’s just for the fangirls honestly, I mean does anyone really think that S.Meyer would put that much thought into her ‘vampires’ evolution?

Here’s my theory.

The sparkling of the Meyerpire! is a highly evolved trait which stimulates the human brain. A mixture of strobe lights and the back and forth motion of a hypnosis watch, it scrambles the brain waves of humans who see it. They become mindless, focused entirely on keeping in contact with the sparkles. The sparkles are rather addictive, like crack. Each vampire has distinctive sparkles, so the human becomes addicted to that particular type of sparkle crack. The human is too stupid/brainwashed to realize that they crave the sparkles, so they translate the feeling of desire into sexual attraction to the vampire.

Unfortunately for a vegetarian vampire, anyone who sees them in the sunlight becomes a mindless shadow that follows them wherever they go. Thus they must stay out of sunlight unless they want hordes of zombies following them.

Regular vampires use the sparkling in isolated areas to trap prey, lure them off, then eat them. They also avoid sunlight in crowded areas due to it being irritating to have hundreds of humans following them (not to mention they can only eat so much at a time).

Now, in Twilight, Edward has a crisis. Morally, he cannot let himself hurt Bella. However, he really wants to eat her. His Id is very hungry for Bellablood. His Superego suppresses this desire into an obsessive infatuation. Thus, realizing he cannot be separated from her, he uses the sparkle to keep her, afraid she’ll leave him. Once he has, he regrets it, as she is now mindless in her devotion to him. He really wants to make her a vampire so that she will have her brain (such as it is) back in full function, but he is also worried about killing off her soul.

In Breaking Dawn, once she is pregnant with The Spawn, he is still addicted to her and has no choice but to bite her after she gives birth and almost dies. Unfortunately, the zombie effect seems to be permanent. But the vampire sex is so good that he no longer cares.

That… would not be hard. Her basis for the sparklies was a dream, she had no reasoning behind it.

I really feel sorry for her husband, considering what her writings must say about their relationship…

And they’re kind of hard to kill as well, as in no concept of ‘the stronger you are, the longer you’ll live.’

Remember vampires can’t evolve because there is no natural selection, vampires don’t breed, they transform humans into their kind.
No breeding=no natural selection=no evolution.

Even if vampires can’t breed, it doesn’t mean that the characteristics of vampires cannot go through natural selection.

We know that vampiric conditions vary slightly from one vampire to another; some are more attractive than others, some are stronger or faster than others. Now let’s say in the very beginning when vampires were born, they were no different from other humans except that they required human blood to survive. Such a vampire would quickly be hunted down and destroyed by fellow humans, and won’t survive long enough to create more vampires and pass on his genetic traits.

However, as vampire conditions vary ever so slightly, a vampire might be created who turns out to be faster and stronger than others. This vampire would have a better chance at survival, would create more vampires and pass on his “desirable” traits quickly among the vampire population. Same goes for attractive vampires; they will have better chance preying on humans, more likely these traits would survive into the next generation. The vampire traits themselves will evolve, even when vampires themselves can’t breed.

Yeah, most people who’ve posted.

But Willow’s theory was awesome.