is evolution true, it just doesn't seem to add up on every level.?

Answer 1

Evolution is 100% world-wide accepted fact, including the evolution of man.

There is ZERO evidence for a higher being causing anything. This is why people who are religious need faith, you can't see or study the actions of a deity, by definition. Evolution has ZERO faith and ALL evidence.

Scientists (real ones) have been studying and supporting evolution for over 150 years, and still nothing has pointed to creationism. There is clear links and transitional forms between everything in the fossil record to the Class-Family level, if not Genus-Species level. And this includes humans, which there are several 'missing links' which are well described and studied, people just choose to ignore this. Sure, there are still things we don't know, but that's why science is not stagnent and dead. We learn more every day, that's what happens when you keep an open mind and follow the scientific method.

Let me turn your question around, if Creationism was correct and science could definitively prove Creationism (and thus the existence of God), why would they not? That would be the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world. No one would pass that up to maintain the 'status quo'. There is no conspiracy to hide creation evidence. Anyone who knows real scientists knows they are glory-mongers first. They love to prove others wrong to enhance their own standing. And if any scientist could prove Creation/God, it would've been done a long time ago.

Go to a museum, take a class in biology, go to reputable sites on the Internet (like AAAS: http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evolution ) and find out for yourself.

Answer 2

Evolution is 100% accurate. The reason you don't believe it exists may be because you haven't studied it, or because evolution is a process that stretches over a long period of time. Besides, evolution can and has been proved. The idea that God created the earth in 6 days is ridiculous. The way that science believes the earth was created is much more possible, and if there really is a God than this was how he or she made the earth. Evolution created man, and God created evolution, if God exists.

Also for those who are adding the big bang to this discussion, the Big Bang was so much a giant explosion, but a sudden expansion that took place in an incredibly short amount of time.

Answer 3

I can understand it is difficult for some to accept that new species can evolve when we know that anteater parents get anteater children and ladybug parents get ladybug children.

But you must realize that "species" are categories invented by humans in order to make it simple to describe nature. They are often practical for describing life as it is at a particular point in time but misleading when describing the history of life.

Think of dog races. Even the most fanatic anti-evolutionist accepts that all dog races are breed out of the same variety of domesticated wolfs. How could this happen, when Chow-chow parents get chow-chow puppies and New Foundland parents get New Foundland puppies? You know the answer - the puppies may have acquired mutations that make them slightly different from their parents. Over hundreds of generations, this adds up to totally different dogs. You'll never see a New Foundland mother (mated with a New Foundland male dog) give birth to a chow-chow puppy.

Evolution works basically the same way. There was never something like a mother reptile giving birth to a little mammal etc. Just small, in most cases not noticeable, differences between parents and offspring. Over millions of generations the differences could be substantial, especially if the conditions of the animals had changed so that certain newly acquired traits would give an animal a better chance of survival.

Answer 4

Good question.

1. Shouldn't we still be seeing evolution today. What has evolved in the last 2000 years (not mutated but truly evolved). Given the changes Man has made to the eco-system in the last 2000 years you would think that would have spurred some sort of evolution to survive by at least one animal that has gone extinct over that time frame or by another animal to keep up with man.

2. Why don't all parts of a species evolve. ie. Why are there still apes today.

Not saying there aren't adaptations or mutations overtime. Just having trouble with the whole evolution theory of one specie become a whole new one.

For those that hang so much on this theory they should remember it is still only a theory and no actual scientific proof has been completed successfully on this theory.

Answer 5

The evolutionary theory is just that, a theory. There isn't any proof of it, but there are characteristics that can prove evidence depending on perspective.

But the true idea of men evolving has a much grimmer history if it does in fact come from the evolutionary theory. Men would, yes, come from apes. But apes are an evolved form of aerobic species, a species that takes millions upon billions of years to evolve into. But all organisms came from Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes, tiny organisms that were first on the earth (microorganisms that used anarobic respiration {respiration without oxygen}).

So in reality, the theory directs more to men evolved from the same thing as all other living matter evolved from, bacterial microorganisms. But in some areas there are gaps that are hard to define or haven't yet been defined. But in some ways, it makes sense. In others it doesn't.

So there can always be questioning of the theory from religious backgrounds, but logically and scientifically, this is the logic given.

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Answer 6

Real scientists, unlike the 10% you hear about that actually support evolution theory, know there is a little thing called Irreducibly Complex Systems, which shows us an example that leads to creationism or a higher power. In just simple terms, and I am leaving quite a bit out for obvious reasons, that if you take a mousetrap apart, you don't catch any mice until all of the parts are assemble. Same is true for a cell structure. The parts will not be able to exist without the integrity of the entire cell being in place. As for "the big bang theory", that is like saying you can take a stick of dynamite and throw it under a woodpile to build your house, just on a much larger scale. All true science leads to the existance of a much higher being.

Answer 7

I think that the only good reason for refuting evolution is religious beliefs.

Personally, I'm Chirstian and believe that God created the earth and all its properties; however, I also believe in evolution. The bible says that God created mankind and the earth in seven days but it also says that back then and in God's eyes, a day was as 10,000years. So while the bible tells us that God created us, it never tells us exactly how He did it. I think that the evolution of the earth and all it's species are all just part of God's master plan.

If we can find the happy medium between religion and science, that's probably where the truth lies.

Answer 8

Evolution is simply common descent with modification. The mechanisms of how that modification occurs may be debated, but the fact that it happens is not, at least not within the scientific communtiy. The only creationist that I know of that can even be remotely referred to as a scientist is Jonathan Wells, a young earth creationist (YEC) who holds a PHD in Biology, but he pursued that degree for the sole purpose of "destroying Darwinism." Dr Wells has not been involved in any meaningful research projects, has not published in peer-reviewed journals, and most importantly, cannot and will not accept any change to his own dogma-based view regardless of which way the evidence points. This is not science, and does not follow the scientific method. Michael Behe is considered a scientist, and he does hold a valid PHD in an evolution-based field (Molecular Biology, I believe), but Dr Behe is an ancient earth evolutionist. He accepts common descent with modification, but claims that it could only have happened through the acts of God (Intelligent Design).

The evidence for evolution covers such a very wide area that a great deal of understanding in several different fields of science would be necessary to cover each and every bit. http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA202.html gives a basic overview of what the evidence for evolution is. It is, again, just the basics, but there are also references listed to provide further reading.

I suspect that maybe a "creation seminar" of some sorts has caused you to doubt in the strength of evolution. There are two problems with these "seminars."

First, their argument mostly revolves around criticisms of the way the evidence for evolution has been interpreted. In most cases, the criticism is unfounded and resorts to a fallacious argument (Argument from Incredulity-"I can't understand how _____ happened, so God did it." or the God of the Gaps argument). Even if the criticism is valid, it isn't evidence for another theory. A valid theory must have it's own evidence, and it must also be able to adequately explain contradictory evidence. Creationism and ID both fail this litmus test.

Second, the "evidence" creationists present to support their view is nothing more than psuedoscience, or is outright fraudulent.

http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html gives a detailed list of creationist arguments and explains why these arguments are invalid, fallacious, fraudulent, or psuedoscience. Next time someone tells you this or that about evolution, go to that site and brouse through it. Chances are, it is there, and the holes in the creationist argument will be apparent. You can also find a list of creationist arguments at http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/List_of_creationist_arguments. It isn't as complete as the talkorigins site, but it also explains which fallacy is being presented by the argument. Many of the same arguments that creationists are giving in answer to your question, here and now, are right there. If you go to the homepage of either site, you will find many other links that will provide you with some informative and eye-opening reading.

If you honestly believe that at whatever level, the evidence for evolution doesn't add up, I suggest that maybe your understanding of that level just isn't up to par, and if you worked a little bit harder to understand that level, it would come together.

I am a christian wwho believes in evolution. I accept that the bible is the word of God, but that doesn't mean that it is to be taken literally, and that doesn't mean that it is infallible on every level, to include science, cosmology, and geology.

Some may choose not to adopt the view that I have, and I respect that. But to say that science supports a 6,000 year old earth or the instant creation of all life at one time within six days is what truly doesn't add up.

The bible explains who created us, and why. Science explains how. My salvation is not endangered by believing in evolution. Neither is my salvation assured by believing in literal creation. Therefore, in this case, I see no problem in trusting science.

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Answer 10

Oh dear...... Humans evolved with the apes, NOT from the apes. All the usual misunderstanding get pulled out. This is not a belief system. Evolution is a scientific study self consistent with the facts and the fossil record.

Teaching anything else in school is heresy