Can the theory of Evolution be True?

Question

We are told life started with an amoeba [one cell] and was a matter of evolution from apes to modern man. However, my question is where did the Amoeba come from in the first place, who made an Amoeba then???

Answer 1

Your questions are quite valid, and I'd like a real smart answer myself about evolution.
First off, even if we DID start from a single-celled organism, where did that organism come from? Who, or what put it there? That alone suggests some sort of higher being. And I really don't think random churning and mixing just randomly created a random organism that randomly evolved into something as complex as a human being.
Think about it this way. Take apart a clock, and lets call that the world way back when before life began. Now put the pieces into a small box and lets call that the "primordial sea". Now shake it, turn it, churn it, mix it, and do whatever you want to shake and toss that little box. Now open it. Is there a clock in there? Or is it still just random pieces? Think about evolution that way. People say that random mixing and churning eventually led to the "birth" of human beings and life in general, however, a human being is FAR too complex to just be randomly born like that. The same way a disassembled clock will never just assemble itself again by random mixing and churning, a complex human being will never just assemble itself, and it never did. Someone or something that KNOWS how to assemble, and KNOWS how complex the item is HAS to be present for the clock to assemble itself.

Answer 2

First: the theory of evolution does _not_ explain the origin of life. It explains (and it does it quite well) how life evolves.
Once there is an organism with the ability to replicate itself (reproduction), with the possibility that some of these replications are not exact copies (variability), and those variations represent differential abilities to survive or reproduce (adaptive fitness), evolution occurs.

Second: the first "life" was probably very simple RNA macromolecules that could self-replicate and also evolve (=have descent with modifications). These molecules have been generated in lab experiments and they have been observed to change and adapt, so it's a possible scenario. There are other theories concerning the origin of life, but the Theory of Evolution is not one of them.

Third: Amoebas are eukaryotic organisms, and are very complex themselves. They obviously evolved from simpler organisms. These include bacteria (which lack nucleus) and viruses (which cannot reproduce by themselves).

Fourth: evolutionary processes are not lineal: there is not a "scale of progression" that goes amoeba --> apes ---> man. Living organisms exist, reproduce, vary, some persist and some go extinct, and the depiction of our interrelationships looks like a many-branched tree, not an arrow. We are a product of evolution just like amoebas and living apes are; and we share common EXTINCT ancestors both with apes and with amoebas.


To the person who stated that Thermodynamics disprove evolution. Please read the 2nd law carefully, because it refers to a system that is CLOSED to energy and matter. The Earth is not precisely closed to energy (remember the radiations from the Sun?) or matter (meteorites, etc).

Lastly: unless you believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, there is no necessary conflict between religion and the theory of evolution. Evolution is both a fact and a theory (scientifically speaking, a "theory" is not just a wild guess or conjecture, but a corpus of solid hypotheses). I recommend this short essay by a fellow YA user:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-bNBckbA2dLThMH6B0fJ747jIDW5h?l=46&u=50&mx=52&lmt=5&p=13#comments

Answer 3

If we "evolved" from apes, then there would be no apes. Evolution is a fact. Things evolve ..watch things change in nature to adapt to their environment. But if something evolved from something then the original would no longer be there. So we did not evolve from apes. We are both mammals. Look at the word "theory" in science. It is not the same as we use in everyday language. In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment. But observe things that have evolved over time. They replace the original.
and an Amoeba is a genus of protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopods, and is well-known as a representative unicellular organism. Humans are formed from the union of two cells.

Answer 4

The "theory" of evolution is beyond question. But there are organisms even more primitive than the amoeba (e.g. viruses) and you're right, no one really knows how the first life began. This is why evolution and religion are not mutually exclusive. We can believe that God put the first spark of life on earth and started the whole process going.

Answer 5

first it wasn't an amoeba second we do not come from apes in some period of evolution we separated from them.
i could write a column about this but the following link might help.
evolution is a fact.

as if the first origin of life concerns it came from simple organisms who appeared due to the conditions of the earth billions of years ago.
for example: the endosymbiotic relationship that formed mitochondria and chloroplasts.

Its basically a big anomaly and we are but a simple coincidence of the universe.

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/scitips/02/0617evoltion.html

Answer 6

The carbon based building blocks of life have always been present on our planet - just needed a little push (perhaps a few billion years of churning and mixing and combining - or, if you prefer, a little help from the Almighty) to combine into reproducible, oxygen consuming cells that began the whole cycle. There's certainly a lot of evidence in favor of the evolution theory.

Answer 7

It is true. The theory now is a very simple RNA organism that can reproduce itself was the first life. This organism probably happened by accident in a world where materials for life were in excess. Materials like amino acids, lipids, and even nucleotides could be form by natural reactions. The next step, the formation of a simple organism is not then so hard to imagine, especially when one had nature had millions of years.

Answer 8

The most accepted theory that explains evolution is "The synthetic theory of evolution" proposed by certain biologists and this was developed from the theory of evolution explained by Charles Darwin.
According to this theory, the species that exist in this earth are based on the features called natural selection and survival of the fitest.

Answer 9

Life started will single-cell organisms but they were not amoebas.

Answer 10

No, evolution cannot be true. The 2nd law of thermodynamics disproves it. The law states:

"The entropy of an isolated system not at equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value."

Entropy is the disorder in a system. The law states that disorder increases in a system. Evolution basically asserts that things become better as they evolve. This is just one basic point that disproves the theory of evolution.