ok prove it?

Question

Ok, those who belive in evolution are asking to prove that there is a God, well how bout you guys prove that there is evolution.

Answer 1

The first step in demonstrating the truth of evolution is to make the claim that all living creatures must have a living parent. This point has been overwhelmingly established in the past century and a half, ever since the French scientist Louis Pasteur demonstrated how fermentation took place and thus laid to rest centuries of stories about beetles arising spontaneously out of dung or gut worms being miraculously produced from non-living material. There is absolutely no evidence for this ancient belief. Living creatures must come from other living creatures. It does no damage to this point to claim that life must have had some origin way back in time, perhaps in a chemical reaction of inorganic materials (in some primordial soup) or in some invasion from outer space. That may well be true. But what is clear is that any such origin for living things or living material must result in a very simple organism. There is no evidence whatsoever (except in science fiction like Frankenstein) that inorganic chemical processes can produce complex, multi-cellular living creatures (the recent experiments cloning sheep, of course, are based on living tissue from other sheep).

The second important point in the case for evolution is that some living creatures are very different from some others. This, I take it, is self-evident. Let me cite a common example: many animals have what we call an internal skeletal structure featuring a backbone and skull. We call these animals vertebrates. Most animals do not have these features (we call them invertebrates). The distinction between vertebrates and invertebrates is something no one who cares to look at samples of both can reasonably deny, and, so far as I am aware, no one hostile to evolution has ever denied a fact so apparent to anyone who observes the world for a few moments.

The final point in the case for evolution is this: simple animals and plants existed on earth long before more complex ones (invertebrate animals, for example, were around for a very long time before there were any vertebrates). Here again, the evidence from fossils is overwhelming. In the deepest rock layers, there are no signs of life. The first fossil remains are of very simple living things. As the strata get more recent, the variety and complexity of life increase (although not at a uniform rate). And no human fossils have ever been found except in the most superficial layers of the earth (e.g., battlefields, graveyards, flood deposits, and so on). In all the countless geological excavations and inspections (for example, of the Grand Canyon), no one has ever come up with a genuine fossil remnant which goes against this general principle (and it would only take one genuine find to overturn this principle).

Well, if we put these three points together, the rational case for evolution is air tight. If all living creatures must have a living parent, if living creatures are different, and if simpler forms were around before the more complex forms, then the more complex forms must have come from the simpler forms (e.g., vertebrates from invertebrates). There is simply no other way of dealing reasonably with the evidence we have. Of course, one might deny (as some do) that the layers of the earth represent a succession of very lengthy epochs and claim, for example, that the Grand Canyon was created in a matter of days, but this surely violates scientific observation and all known scientific processes as much as does the claim that, say, vertebrates just, well, appeared one day out of a spontaneous combination of chemicals.

To make the claim for the scientific truth of evolution in this way is to assert nothing about how it might occur. Darwin provides one answer (through natural selection), but others have been suggested, too (including some which see a divine agency at work in the transforming process). The above argument is intended, however, to demonstrate that the general principle of evolution is, given the scientific evidence, logically unassailable and that, thus, the concept is a law of nature as truly established as is, say, gravitation. That scientific certainty makes the widespread rejection of evolution in our modern age something of a puzzle (but that's a subject for another essay). In a modern liberal democracy, of course, one is perfectly free to reject that conclusion, but one is not legitimately able to claim that such a rejection is a reasonable scientific stance.

Answer 2

Scientists have been proving there is evolution for like 150 years now...If you want to see the proof, then look up some Science Journals, there are over 100,000 published works proving it.

I'm not sure what you're referring to by evolution, perhaps you are thinking about where man came from, which isn't what evolution is all about. There have been studies that last many years showing animals evolve as well as very quick studies lasting a few weeks. Fruit flies are born, live and die very quickly so they are used often for tests, and we can see how they evolve.

Do you ever wonder why you get a cold or the flu every year? It is because the bacteria and viruses that cause them evolve all the time. They mutate so frequently and that's why we have to make new vaccines for them every year.

There are thousands of examples. They are very interesting and fascinating.

Evolution is not a bad thing, and it's not like God and evolution cannot exist at once. Many scientists are christians so don't think they are all athiests who need proof that God exists.

Answer 3

Whether creation is made by a diety higher than ourselves, or by adaptation; evolution, is all creation. Creation of a new species.. of new life. It is not true that Charles Darwin was only looking for exemption of believing in creation, he was simply looking for a new perspective at creation. The Darwinian theory is the belief that species of living things originate, evolve, and survive through natural selection in response to environmental forces.

His theory didn't include that there was no higher diety you might believe as God, it simply said that we weren't hand made by a diety, we didn't come prepackaged - we evolved into the beings we are through natural selection, through adaptation over time.

A theory may not be true, but the supporting facts and evidence however, make it as true as you or me. Over time, Archaeologists have found skeletal structures that resemble both humans and primates. When we found DNA technology we found that primates, or more specifically chimps, have DNA that is scarily similar to that of humans.

How can it be possible that chimps, and humans have relatively similar skeletal structures(and even more closely similar a million years ago) and scarily similar DNA?

Theres an hour and a half long program on the discovery channel about the evolution theory, facts, and hard evidence thats impossible to beat with the Bible.

Remember, a higher diety didn't write the Bible, nobody stuck a hand out of the sky and said, "Yo Jesus, spread this sh!t.". We, Humans, man, we wrote and spread the Bible and ideal of Christianity. It wasn't Charles Darwin who was looking for a way to 'not believe in creation', but it was a way for ancient people to have a 'security blanket' and knowledge of where we came from, insteads of beling hopelessly blind. We wrote that 'story' we wrote the Bible to cope with not knowing where we came from.

The Bible, is like an Indian folk legend, it's a story that explains something thats unexplainable in any other way then a story.

Until recently - we have the technology, and the evidence to explain what was once unexlainable. We have a better understanding of the world and all it's components, all it's matter. We can now understand the world isn't flat, but a spheriod. We can understand more now, then ever before - which is what the Darwinain theory is, and what evolution is.. it's an explanation for creation, and life - an explanation we didn't have in Biblical times.

Answer 4

That's the thing about Evolution. It's a theory. You know, Darwin's "Theory of Evolution"? In a lot of ways evolution just makes sense, that over time, things change and adapt to a changing world. In a lot of ways religions have given me few logical answers. Hope that helps you to understand.
Go here for more info:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
Information is good.

Answer 5

OK, do some looking on the 'net regarding moths in England. You will find that they have evolved from white to black within the past couple of decades to hide against tree trunks better and avoid predetors.

Also look up fruit flies, germs, and especially viruses. You will find well-documented facts on their evolution, as well as mice and rats.

Evolution hasn't stopped just because humans came on the scene - it is still going on.

Answer 6

You'll be told that the "theory" of evolution is a scientific fact, although it's still a weak theory. There are many wiser than us that believe in a creator, one being the renowned physicist Steven Hawkings, plus many others.

Answer 7

Where do you think those dinosaur bones came from? Why can we show a definite link between prehistoric animals and modern animals using fossils? Why is there a progression from ape to human clearly evident in skeletons unearthed time and time again? Prehistoric man was as close to the apes and he was to us. Use the brains God gave you to figure it out. Or do you have the brain of a monkey?

Answer 8

no one can prove either, i believe in God, but that means nothing because its a personal experience and a personal belief.

No one was there in the begining, so everyone simply must believe what they believe, and when we die we'll all know who was right.

Asking for anyone to prove why they believe something is like asking someone to discribe their thoughts so you can think them in exactly the same way. Its impossible.

I say lets all go about our beliefs and not argue over them.

Answer 9

There is biological and geological evidence of evolution. From fish with legs to lizards with wings. It is all there. Open your eyes to what is in front of you instead of being blinded by faith. I believe in a little of both so just you must believe what you are want to. Just listen to what they have found and believe what you must.

Answer 10

Neither side can prove it to the satisfaction of the other. Death is the real prover.
Those that have eternal life already know it and can't be shaken and those that don't are looking for answers.