Why do you believe in evolution?

Question

Please no one say some single cell organism crawled up out the water and suddenly grew lungs and walked upright!
And I am tired of hearing of some missing link between man and monkey its missing because it never existed!!!
solid answers please no speculation!

Answer 1

YEP

Answer 2

As an Earth Science major, I used to know for a FACT that evolution was truth.
Then I stumbled on a question in my mind...
How does it explain how simple life became complex?
Let's examine one small part of this question...
We have a simple life form, a multi celled life form without any complexity. In order for this life form to become complex, it must in one single change, "evolve" all components of complexity.
Basically, it must evolve a complete brain, a complete heart, a complete lung(s), a complete blood stream, a complete digestive system, etc.
In order for a component to evolve from anyting prior, there must be a need for the component.
Would a heart evolve without blood?
Would lungs evolve without blood?
Would blood evolve without lungs or a heart?
You see the point.
How long would a creature survive with blood but no lungs or heart? How would the new design be passed on?

I saw that for evolution to be true, simple life forms must have changed into a complete complex life form in one single change.

Micro evolution is fact. It's actually called adaptation. Minor changes that do not make new species and never would.

Recently, a T-Rex skeleton was found that still has soft tissue on it. Now I'm not making any claims but I'm sure that there is no circumstances where soft tissue can survive the length of time required by the theory of evolution. A few thousand years, but even if in an ice block, over the supposed millions of years, the ice would surely have melted or not existed at some point.

Answer 3

Reason and reasoning can get complicated,I just do believe its my belief, my right to make my own choice.
My personal feelings,to me evolution is change,everything has changed since the beginning of time,
The world changes everyday,everything on mother earth changes continuously with out a reasonable doubt
So we have evolved and keep changing daily one can notice these changes that has made the world what it is today.What will it be like in ten thousand years? If the earth is still thriving and not destroyed from some man made device. No one knows, almost like digging for the past no one knows anything other than what has been unearthed.
This is a very complicated study,the study of life and I have tried to study,but I am just a mere me not dedicating my life to just what was .
What made us start evolving has caused so much speculation so many arguments but something drastically happened to cause us start evolving.It just happened .

Answer 4

First, there is no missing link...never has been. the fossil record was missing several key branches along the evolutionary tree of life...but geology, anthropology and paleontology are based on historical records (fossils) that shift as often as the earth does...which is daily..volcanoes, mudslides..etc...The earth is a living, evolving entity..

I could recite all the data and scientific essays in the world...but if you're predisposed to disbelieving in evolution, I'd be wasting my time. If however, you want to truly learn about the science behind evolution (a very complex subject) I'm happy to supply a reading list..

first, everything ever written by Stephen J. Gould. Period

"Dinosaur in a haystack"
"The Hedgehog, the Fox and The Magister's Pox"
"Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms"
"Bully for Brontosaurus"
"The Lying Stones of Marrakesh"
and many many more....

Darwin's
"Descent of Man" and "the Origin of Species" may be a bit too esoteric for the layperson..but if you can muddle through the language, it's well worth the read.

From the tone of your question, I would say it's probably not going to sway you one way or the other...but there is tremendous data to support nearly every aspect of the "theory of evolution" Darwin was wrong in a few minor aspects, but generally speaking..was correct in the basic attributes of natural selection.

there is virtually noone in the scientific community today, apart from creationists, who doesn't accept Evolution as fact.

If you aren't inclined to do the research into the origins of your own species...perhaps someone else who comes along and reads this will glean a spark of interest from my ramblings...

Read the books..I'd be happy to donate copies from my collection if you are unable to find them in your local library or can't purchase them.

Answer 5

A single celled organism crawled up out of the water and suddenly grew a hand and pimp slapped you because even it has brains enough to realise how stupid it is to ask why someone "believes" in something and then refuse to consider anything that's a "theory". Religion is in some majorly deep sht if speculation is worthless, you realise this, don't you?

Answer 6

Because I embrace reality. Evolution is fact, Bible is fiction. There is nothing about evolution that claims to have been instant, and no link between man and monkey exists because we had a common ancestor a very long time ago. You've been listening to the same fools that thought the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth.

Answer 7

Well, what you just said were solid answers. you would expect evolutionists to say : "evolution is right because science says so"? like all the religious fanatics.

The fact is that there are proofs of evolution in action. Darwin saw them on the Galapagos islands, numerous other researchers have observed it, and even you have probably watched some form of evolution : just think of all the different species of foxes that exist : in the Arctic regions you have White foxes, adapted to their environment, in the temperate regions you have gray and brown foxes etc.

Also, evolution does not happen in gigant steps. A monkey does not become man in one generation. thousands, tens of thousands of generations must pass before a completely new species emerges.

These said, know that when, after 20 years of verifining his theory, Darwin published his works, not a single fellow scientist or man of the church were able to tackle his findings on scientific matters, they only could object to ethical/moral problems ("man, descendent from apes? impossible" etc.)

Answer 8

Evolution is a gradual change over time. It's pretty easy to see that animals have adapted over time to live under varying conditions. With DNA and other tools, it's becoming more and more evident that man did evolve from some type of ape-like creature. Why is this upsetting? Why can't people accept this as God's plan? Adam and Eve looked hairier than we thought. So what?

Answer 9

If I believed in talking snakes, sky pixies with halos, magical pregnancies by ghosts, and creation of man by a pile of dirt or crap in the hands of some omnipotent unseen deity, then I would probably consider myself crazy.

There is no afterlife. When we die, so do our brains, so we won't experience anything. I believe in evolution because I use logic. We did evolve, and we continue to evolve. Our jaws even evolved, and grew smaller when we discovered fire, and learned how to cook meat. People just refuse to believe, due to insecurity about death, and the natural process.

If you need some reassurance, take a look at the various EMPTY planets in the galaxy serving no virtual purpose whatsoever.

Answer 10

Because there are Dinosaur bones in the ground.

Because things change over time. The only constant is change.

Because the Earth is 4.6 BILLION years old.

Because nothing stays the same. Are you the same as the day you were borne? Or have you...EVOLVED?

Answer 11

nope I do not beleive it at all, hello do you see anything evolving? Why did it stop? Monkey aren't showing up with half human have monlkey features or anything close to it. Sure scientist mess with cells and grow human ears on poor mice but nothing is naturally evolving,