Evolution is a fact; the true (& scientific) controversy is how did it occur?

Question

By 1. genetic drift, mutation, punctuated equilibrium, natural selection and other forms of selection.
2. By some other natural process(es) yet to be worked out.

Answer 1

you really have to pick. there incompatible.
i pick evolution.

Answer 2

When has evolution been anything other than a theory? The issue is that there are those who insist on teaching evolution as a fact when it is only a theory.

Where is the missing link? If Man came from the Apes, why do apes still exist? When has an ape birthed anything other than an ape?

The problem is those educated beyond their intelligence who think themselves too smart and too sophisticated to believe in God and in Creation as the First Cause. It is the Big Bang that doesn't make sense, not Creation.

Genetic drift, mutation, punctuated equilibrium, natural selection, etc. indeed! Where does one species cross over into another species? It is just theory. A fish is still a fish. A mammal is still a mammal. A bird is still a bird. Where is the cross-species transitional beast?

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Answer 3

So many frauds have been perpetrated by scientists about evolution that it's hard for me to know what's really a "fact" as you say. It's clear to me that evolution of species has taken place. What is not clear is how life started. I also wonder why man shares so many characteristics, including genetically, with so many different species, and, yet, man alone developed a brain that separates it so vastly from all other species. Why only man?

Answer 4

Evolution happens
With Intelligent Design

Answer 5

all of those things you listed under number 1 are all scientific theories. Ive got news for you. Believing in the theories of Darwinism, natural selection, and the Big Bang take as much or even more faith to believe than believing in God himself. No theorem or law in the world of mathematics and science is 100% proven. So therefore, science is religion and religion is science.

Answer 6

I do believe it is still considered and called "The Theory of Evolution". It may be taught as fact, but no one knows for certain. At least not right now. For now, its still a theory.

Answer 7

Mabey this is how God chose to create us! It says He made us from the dust of the earth,after He made the earth.
Evolutionists say we came out of microbes & chemicals in the earth & water.
No one can presume to know how God did it,but I know I believe He did!
I do not deny the dinosaurs,but I know He made them too.

Answer 8

Discovery Institute

Look into that "non biased" source.

I wish these right wing conservatives would stop claiming to be scientists....

Answer 9

You answered your own question being that there were no question marks after each of your notions.

Answer 10

Dissent From Darwin “Goes Global” as Over 600 Scientists From Around the World Express Their Doubts About Darwin’s Theory
Scientific Dissent From Darwinism Continues to Grow

By: Staff
Discovery Institute
June 20, 2006


Dissent From Darwin “Goes Global” as Over 600 Scientists From Around the World Express Their Doubts About Darwin’s Theory
The list is now located at the website, www.dissentfromdarwin.org

SEATTLE — Over 600 doctoral scientists from around the world have now signed a statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution. The statement, located online at www.dissentfromdarwin.org, reads: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”

The fastest growing segment of the list is scientists from outside the United States. International scientists now represent just over 12% of all signers, and as a group has seen nearly 40% growth in the past four months.

“I signed the Scientific Dissent From Darwinism statement, because I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma,” said Raul Leguizamon, M. D., Pathologist, and a professor of medicine at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

“Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all,” added Leguizamon. “Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as Bernard Shaw used to say.”

The list of 610 signatories includes member scientists from National Academies of Science in Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India (Hindustan), Nigeria, Poland, Russia and the United States. Many of the signers are professors or researchers at major universities and international research institutions such as Cambridge University, British Museum of Natural History, Moscow State University, Masaryk University in Czech Republic, Hong Kong University, University of Turku in Finland, Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico, University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in France, Chitose Institute of Science & Technology in Japan, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, MIT, The Smithsonian and Princeton.

“Dissent from Darwinism has gone global,” said Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman, former US Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna. “Darwinists used to claim that virtually every scientist in the world held that Darwinian evolution was true, but we quickly started finding US scientists that disproved that statement. Now we’re finding that there are hundreds, and probably thousands, of scientists all over the world that don’t subscribe to Darwin’s theory.”

Discovery Institute first published its Scientific Dissent From Darwinism list in 2001 to challenge false statements about Darwinian evolution made in promoting PBS’s “Evolution” series. At the time it was claimed that “virtually every scientist in the world believes the theory to be true.”

Prominent signatories include U.S. National Academy of Sciences member Philip Skell; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Lyle Jensen; evolutionary biologist and textbook author Stanley Salthe; Smithsonian Institution evolutionary biologist and a researcher at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Biotechnology Information Richard von Sternberg; Editor of Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum --the oldest still published biology journal in the world-- Giuseppe Sermonti; and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences embryologist Lev Beloussov.