Can you prove Evolution?

Question

Scientists say that evolution is scientifically based. Science rests on proof. My question is where is the scientific proof obtained by scientific methodology to prove evolution WAS the mechanism for the development of life.

Answer 1

It is well proven by scientists, it's whether you want to believe it.

Answer 2

Yes, evolution can be proven, but it doesn't matter because no amount of evidence will prove it to your satisfaction. It's a big, complicated affair that isn't proven with something trivial.

It's much easier to sway peoples' minds with simplified, moronic arguments like there being 'gaps in the fossil record'. - Well of course there are gaps in the fossil record!!! Do you think all animals are preserved forever? They have to get stuck in the right kind of mud, or river bed, or whatever. And then the bacteria have to leave them alone. And then they have to be petrified.

There are no intermediary forms; any animal that ever existed belonged to a species. It's just that sometimes, two groups became separated and evolved in different directions. After a while, they could no longer interbreed; they had become of different species.

What else do ID/Creationists throw at us? Oh yeah, irreducible complexity, or "I can't figure this out, so it must be God". Now there's a scientific approach worthy of Louis Pasteur... (well, no, obviously)

Answer 3

Ever wonder what that tiny little organ at the bottom of your stomach is for? That's called an appendix. It's a vestigial organ which means it used to be bigger and actually provide a service but we have no need for it anymore now that we have obtained the skills necessary to make our food easier to digest. That is proof of evolution.
I think when people hear how evolution takes thousands of years to occur they misenterpret that to mean after thousands of years, poof! New species.
I think this is just a miscommunication between the people who teach evolution and the people being told about it. The way it really works is something more like this: say there's this one species of moth that lives in two different locations. There's a preditory species that lives in one location but not the other. All the moths have a patturn of dots on their wings that are arranged randomly. By coincidence a few moths bare a patturn that slightly resembles a face (most animals are hard-wired to recognize faces). The predatory animal in the one location gets scared off by the face patturn but continues to feed on the other moths that don't have a face patturn. Over many generations, the moths in the location with the predator have mated with the available moths (primarily those with faces on their wings) and produced offsprings with similar patturns to their parents (faces). Since only the moths with faces survived the predators' attacks they're the only ones left to breed so all the offsprings bare a face. Compare with the moths from the other location who haven't had to trick predators and you will see vast differences in their wing patturns. Only the moths with specific markings (and the genes that pass them on) survive. This is called "natural selection".
I hope that wasn't too it-made-sense-in-my-head. If you're still confised on that, e-mail me and I'd gladly draw you up a diagram to help illustrate this process.

Answer 4

Evolution, like all other scientific theorems, has mountains of proof and evidence to support it. 150 years of painstaking research have gone into this relatively new science.
And that's just with less than 1% of the worlds surface that we've explored for fossils. Just wait until we've looked at 5% or 10%!
If we have this many fossils now, can you imagine what we'll have in 150 years?
Face it sparky, Evolution is a fact. Science marches slowly but it is relentless. No matter how much you creationists want to drag the rest of us back to the dark ages, it won't work.
You will be dragged, kicking and screaming if need be, into the new world.

Oh and whoever posted "Dr." Kent Hovind's website, thanks. Here is an even better one about the so-called "Dr." dino...
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/hovind.htm

Answer 5

Can you prove creation?

The Theory of Evolution has its basis in the scientific method--observation, hypothesis, experimentation. The basic tenets of Evolution have been proved and supported again and again and again, and they've been applied in such fields as agriculture and pharmacology. Intelligent design is a philisophical paradigm which IS NOT SCIENCE, AND SHOULD NOT BE OFFERED AS AN EXPLANATION OF LIFE'S ORIGINS. It is not a "theory," that's a misnomer. It's pseudo-science based on the assertions that God made things as they are. If humans had to depend on the philosophy of Intelligent Design to feed them or to fight infection, they'd all be dead. How intelligent is that?

Answer 6

Nope, its a theory that has been FULLY disproved many times. See www.harunyahya.com for one example

If we really evolved from apes...and evolutionists say it took millions of years for us to evolve, going through many stages...then how come there arent any transitional fossils? (Why arent there fossils showing the change such as a fossil of a half-ape half man?) There would be transitional fossils if it were real but there arent any....Even Darwin himself said there are no fossils to prove my theory but i hope someone will uncover some one day....Well we havent, and we never will. God created us and put us on this planet as we are...Evolution has been refuted many times. Its just a trick of the Devils to get you all to think God doesnt exist so he can drag you all into Hell with him....Ok i phrased that in a very sinister way (apologies) but its the Truth.....Save yourselves now because the battle between Good and Evil has been raging since the beginning of time...who's side are YOU going to take?

Answer 7

creationists and evolutionists both believe in micro evolution, animal adaptation. This you can prove.

creationists do not believ in revolutionary changes like form a reptile to a bird or fish to amphibian or non life to life or ape to man. This you cannot prove and the irreducable complexity of many living things actually proves the appoosite and the revolutioary changes neeeded between different animal types proves the oppposite no series of small changes can explain these

Answer 8

I believe in science and what it can tell us. I've read a couple of books on evolution and while I'm certainly not an expert, it sounds perfectly viable to me. I find it impossible to believe in one almighty creator. After all there are so many religions they can't all be right. Try reading RIVER OUT OF EDEN by RICHARD DAWKINS. It explains evolutionary theory in a very clear way.

Answer 9

yes. Haven't you noticed how alike our ape realtives are to us. Research shows that they sometimes walk upright to cross dangerous stretches of water. They are very social animals like us and are known to use tools and think ahead, when concerned with aquiring food. Another likeness they have to us are their physical features such as 2 eyes, 2 ears and 2 hands. Apes have also been shown to have a sense of justice, when one monkey gets better food than another, that monkey would often protest at the injustice by having a tantrum.

Answer 10

Yes, you can. Go to the artic. Natives there have adapted eyes for strong sunlight reflection off the snow. Now go to places like the Alps. People there have adapted to have larger lung capacities to breath like we do in a environment with lower amounts of oxygen.

Answer 11

better than you can prove that there is a god!!!

How many gods are there anyway??? I mean between all the different faiths that there is available?

Do all the gods hang out like on Mt. Olympus???

Minus the sarcasm...I am being serious.

What god is right??? and Why??? Who are you or anyone to say that someone else's god isn't true or real???