How much more evidence does Evolution need to finally become a fact?

Answer 1

The thing is, even if you had every shed of evidence in the world to support evolution, there are still going to be people who wont believe it until it fits their ideals.

Here is an example: today I was chatting with someone in a public chat room. He was saying that people were stupid because they couldn't tell the difference between cold sores and herpes. I kindly pointed out to this person that cold sores are a type of herpes, which he refused to believe. I think I gave him every source I could find on the matter, but he still refused to believe it. I even suggested that he read-up on some medical journals and talk to doctors, but he also refused to do that, as well.

Some people are happier in their ignorant bliss.

Answer 2

It needs alot! The theory has no evidence anywhere in it, dont say something like micro-evolution...That proves nothing, the theory is Macro-evoulution, which has no evidence supporting that that has ever happened and is happening, and dont say the fossil record, where are the frogs that started to look like birds or any of the other animals that were half way thru, because the theory states it was a slow change over time, but there is no way the animal lived long enough to entirerly change, it would have to be the animals offsrping that completed it, but there is no in between fossil anywhere, and when they find that stuff they might be able to consider it a fact, but until they do, its just a theory, and in my opinion, a Belief

Answer 3

Not too much, but what it does need to prove it is going to be damn near impossible to find because the theory deals with events over millions of years, not too many organic things can last the long to still be proof. But really it is very well founded and most people who will tell you different just don't like it and only read about it in religious publications that only talk about the few faults it has. And while a full evolutionary chain of fossils can be very believable it doesn't technically prove anything to some one who doesn't want to believe it so people are going to fight it forever. I'm sure there's some people out there whole still believe in a geocentric universe, some people just don't care to study things.

Answer 4

Depends on how you define "Evolution". If it is defined as "A change in the frequency of alleles in a particular species over a period of time", then it is a fact. If you extrapolate this fact into other assumptions (which, from a scientific basis, is far from unfounded), it is still a theory- which, by the way, is a VERY strong term.

Maybe you should look up the scientific meaning of the word "theory"- it'll help you understand a little better.

Answer 5

eThe problem with Evolution becoming a scientific fact is there are two independent concepts that are commonly referred to as evolution.

Micro-evolution- is indicated in study after study, this is the change of a species characteristics because of an environmental change. It only could become a scientific "law" some day.

Macro-evolution - is much harder to prove as it suggests one species can become another over time and that's how all species cam into existence.

Answer 6

The theory of evolution is as accepted as the theory of gravitation (you know, that theory that gravity exists).

Theory means something much more in a scientific context.

In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it often does in other contexts. A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from and/or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations that is predictive, logical and testable. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections or inclusion in a yet wider theory. Commonly, a large number of more specific hypotheses may be logically bound together by just one or two theories. As a general rule for use of the term, theories tend to deal with much broader sets of universals than do hypotheses, which ordinarily deal with much more specific sets of phenomena or specific applications of a theory.

Answer 7

GOD,pure conscious energy,created (VISUALIZED) all things that have been created,Pronounced it good then released it ,through the "BIG BANG" Where it is still being manifested today. Some call this process Evolution. IT IS ALREADY A FACT THAT GOD CREATED EVERYTHING AND EVOLUTION IS THE PROOF OF THIS. IT( EVOLUTION ) ALSO PROVES GOD IS ALIVE AND WELL. LOVE Whistle Britches

Answer 8

It is fact. Unfortunately, many don't understand the difference between the layman's definition of 'theory' and the scientific definition. It would have been better if science had chosen a different term because the layman -- especially the fundamentalist -- has trouble when a term has completely different meanings in different contexts. Scientific theory allows for modification and flexibility as new data comes in, unlike the rigidity of certain theologies.

Answer 9

Take some statistics courses, friend. In this you will discover that Evolution is an impossibility. If Darwin had done this, the question would never be asked.

Answer 10

I would like to see just one piece of evidence. Not what passes as evidence in the form of speculation, theory and conjecture.