Evolutionists: What is your evidence?

Question

This is a serious question. I am a creationist, and firm in my belief, so this isn't a "this VS. that" type question. I just want to know what, say, the top 5 pieces of evidence are for your position.

I didn't really want a website, I wanted your own words, but I did go look. The evidence presented in these 8 answers has pretty much fallen out of date, and most scientists agree: 1) makes sense? to create something out of nothing requires a force outside of itself and a divine designer fits that better than no explanation at all 2) Haeckels embryos were exposed as fraud over 100 yrs ago, plus he used mid development embryos which actually disproves Darwins theory that we start of similar and grow more apart 3) outdated structures? in the last 100 yrs science has proven use for some things we thought were useless before(pancreas, tonsils...) 4) human vs. ape you have to believe the difference between the 2 lies in the 2% difference and those genes have nothing to do with our differences 5) fossil evidence? the Cambrian explosion proves that all of a sudden many lifeforms came on the scene with no transitional species. Darwin was aware of this he just hoped for the best.

Answer 1

1. Reason. It makes sense to believe in natural selection.

2. Embryonic similarities across species and geni.

3. Useless, outdated anatomical structures.

4. Genetic likenesses among humans and apes.

5. Chronolgical fossil evidence of evolving lifeforms.

Answer 2

DNA (ours is 99%match to chimps). Common traits (different species around the world have the same features). Left over parts (you have a tail bone/appendix, etc). Fossil record (we can trace animal species like ours through history). Evolution that we have seen (bacteria evolve even in your body). That was five, but there are many more. People say there are missing links, etc, but many are being found. Things Darwin predicted are happening. It makes sense, and creationism has no proof. Even if there is a missing link, creationism does not even have facts to link. If you look at creationism by the justification for that logic anything could be. They say it is correct till proven wrong, even with no evidence, and that because many believe it is true. I could say the same about big foot, the tooth fairy, or the green flamingos of space, and you can not prove they do not exist. Look at the logic for creationism, then apply it to big foot, etc and tell me why that is different (it is not). You can only prove things, but can not prove what does not have evidence (like creation). I could go on, but I hope the answer is enough.

Answer 3

I'm christian and I believe in evolution, but not the ape to man stuff. There is no evidence of this theory, because guess what? It's simply a theory, with no proof whatsoever. This is what the athiests try to tell us is fact in order to get us to disbelieve in God. I see at least 2 questions a day from atheists who tell us the ape to man theory is fact, apparently they don't even have a clue it's a theory.

If we're talking logic, what's more logical, "God created" or "big bang from nothing"? It just doesn't make any sense that there would be a big bang when there wasn't anything to go bang in the first place. Basically, evolutionists are just like us, putting all their faith in something without any proof.

Answer 4

Here you go here is a brefe snippit of proof of evolution there is plenty more if you go looking for it.
Fossil Evidence
Using fossils we can see how creatures have evolved through time.

Take the cephalopods for example a sort of squid like creature in a shell.

First of all there was the nautiloids who had a shell with just 1 curl in there shell.






Then there was the goniatite which had a spiral shell.



Then there was the ammonites who had more spiral shells and other such features like ribs on the shell.



Then the spiral shell began to uncoil.



You can see evolution in all kinds of fossils another good one is graptolite evolution but you can go with anything and see a creature evolving over time.



Australia

Australia was joined to the rest of the world but was pulled apart from it by plate tectonics. When this happened fossils show us that marsupials where the dominant type of animal on the planet. Then Australia separated and the conditions there remained constant and so the marsupials didn’t evolve any further as they didn't need to and the gene pool was also allot smaller so there was less chance of random mutation. However in the rest of the world conditions did chance and so the marsupials had to evolve into other things mostly primates and so primates are now the dominant group on the planet apart from in Australia which still has its marsupials. The same applies with Madagascar and its lemurs.



Also in Europe alcoholic beverages have been brewed and consumed for centuries so the people of Europe have the enzymes required to cope with digestion of the alcohol. However the Aboriginal people have never brewed alcohol so they have never needed the enzyme to digest it and now alcohol poisoning is the main cause of death in the Aboriginal population. This shows that where alcohol is consumed the body evolves the ability to produce enzymes to deal with it but not if alcohol isn't present.



Really Australia doesn't prove evolution it just acts as one big control group allowing us to see how things change elsewhere proving evolution.

Evolution Happening Now
It is possible to see many things evolve right in front of you.

The main one of these is antibiotic resistance in bacteria. If you expose bacteria to antibiotics but don't kill it, it evolves a resistance to the antibiotics meaning it can't be killed by them. This is a major problem in medicine as antibiotics are our main way of fighting bacteria caused illness.

Another recent one is head lice. Most head lice are now unaffected by the most common active ingredient in head lice shampoo. Evolution on your head.

Finches on the Galapagos islands have evolved smaller beaks to get at different seeds after being out competed by a larger type of finch that arrived about 20 years ago.

Now there is proof of evolution staring you right in the face.

Now where is the proof of creation?

Answer 5

It doesn't matter what evidence anyone presents. You are predisposed to deny it so why ask for it? I'm a Christian and I believe in evolution. The science is too solid to deny it. Now I would expect you to BLAST that comment with the usual rhetoric the far right conservative Christian following has been brainwashed to repeat over and over again. All that still does not invalidate the facts of the matter.

Answer 6

5 pieces of evidence? how about 29
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section2.html

Answer 7

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

I doubt that you'll read any of it, as your religion keeps you blinded to FACTS.

Answer 8

http://www.talkorigins.org/

There you go.