Do you believe in Charles Darwin's Ideas? and the evolution Idea?

Answer 1

Evolution exists. I have degrees in Horticulture and I have seen evolution in plants and insects proved with my own eyes. If you look at the study of anatomy it can be seen in humans from previous generations to today's population. Darwin took some existing information and went further with it, which was groundbreaking. As a whole, a lot of what he put forth was right on but with continued scientific research it has gone beyond what he originally wrote. It is an area where pieces of the puzzle are always being found and I doubt anyone of us will be alive to see the final picture. No one knows how we came to be here in this universe or on this planet exactly or from what we were originally and I am not commenting on that whole area of debate. But evolution does exist, living things evolve.

Answer 2

Nadine.The technology we have today was no where near what it was back than, Imagine we had not landed on the moon and there was no Y/A. Today in the modern era much of the Dogma that restricted free thought has gone to a more liberal train of thinking and because of this we are now able to discover the existence of such things as fossils and Dinosaur bones to prove that there was life some 90 million years ago. I suppose what I am trying to say is Anthropology and Archeology along with Biology are now subjects that are taught along with the facts that Evolution of the human species and Darwin's theory's of Natural selection are real subjects that should be considered for a well rounded education. During Darwin's time dogma over ruled any hint of life being created by anything other than a supreme being referred to as "God"..Sad as this might seem it is true::))

Answer 3

Well, the underpinings of Darwinism was once called "uniformitarianism". U-ism said that all the dynamic forces active in the world that are to be presently observed,
are unchanged as to scale in the history of the planet. U-ism
rejected the idea of great catastrophes, such as the biblical flood,
because if such a catastrophe could impact the entire planet,
this would utterly disrupt the orderly progression of the evolu-tionary arising of species, it was thought. But, of course, we have ample evidence of massive extinctions in the fossil record,
and furthermore, the massive ammounts of organic materials
necessary to create huge beds of coal, and even petroleum
deposits, cannot be explained by anything less than a gigantic
tidal wave following the impact of a huge meteorite or comet,
with such sites as 1)just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula,
and 2)Hudsen Bay in Canada(notice the large, semicircular lower
half of Hudsen Bay), strong candidates for two such collisions. I also read recently that the latest thinking in planetary origins,
has the Earth and the Moon once a single planet. In this scenario, the Proto-Earth was struck by a very large comet or
meteor, which literally broke off the fragments that later came back together as our present Moon, but also "melted" the heavy metals which then sank to the center of our Earth, creating a second, internal "Moon" known as the Earth's, white-hot but solid core. None of this is in the least bit encouraging for U-ism, which is why it very rarely gets discussed anymore. But Darwin, himself, acknowledged the importance of U-ism, if that slow,
steady march of evolution could succeed. So, unless there's some incorporation of catastrophes into the equation, the mechanism by which evolution is purported to transpire, is poorly understood and the current explanations are inadequate. Personally, I believe a combination of factors facillitate the process of "arising", not the least of which is the pressure put on a species by terrible catastrophic near-annihilations. Of course,
I also suspect we may have been "messed with" genetically by
some kind of space aliens, so what do I know? Lol. Thanks for the opportunity to answer your question, I appreciate the neutral tone, the impartial way it was asked.

Answer 4

No, I don't believe in evolution for the simple reason that it takes more faith to believe that the human body is the result of a fantastic number of 'accidents' than to believe God created it. I'll give an example. Darwinism expects me to believe that, on a molecular level, fish and humans are very similar. But, in fact, fish and amphibians aren't even similar at the molecular level, so how could humans and fish be?

Answer 5

I agree with easymony. Evolution would still be taking place. Besides, historical records state that on his death bed, Darwin admitted to making the whole thing up.

Answer 6

Yes I do. I read his books on evolution, that interested and helped not just me, but the entire globe to understand how every being evolved and how everything became extinct in the past. We still have no clue of how everything disappeared in history like dinosaurs, megaladons, smilodons etc. But, still the theory is being studied to get people like evolutionologists, ecologists, biologist etc. updated and this is an intersting subject. After all, his contribution was and still is worthy to mankind and in no way they are jokes. After all, he discovered and studies all life on earth and also how they evolved.

Answer 7

I believe in parts of C. Darwin's ideas and theories and most of the Creation Science theories, it seems to me like they both tie in together one way or another.

Answer 8

Do you believe in that whole kooky Germ Theory of Disease? The whole idea that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases? What kind of idiot would believe that? I believe that disease is the result of some imbalance in the vital energies which distinguish living from non-living matter (note heavy satirical tone is required).
When you wrote this question did it occur to you how silly it sounds?

Answer 9

"If evolution ever happened it would still be happening and somewhere there would be a half man half ape still trying to make the transformation"

This is wrong.

The notion that species generate randomly is also wrong. Wrong.

Darwin might be sympathetic to uniformatarianism or whatever.. that doesn't mean it has anything to do with his theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection

Answer 10

I believed it was a factor, but as soon as we developed a greater sense of self evolution for humanity stopped.