How is evolution possibly true?

Question

In the beginning, there was a big bang....where did it come from? How does nothing come from absolutely nothing? And if the world always existed, shouldn't there have been enough time for the world to be perfect by now? I mean, time would be infinite then. Where did DNA come from? How did the first micro-organisms appear? Pure nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide from the beginning can't possibly create life on its own. How is it possible that the world can even exist right now? I want a scientific explanation for this.

Answer 1

You need to rent some evolution documentaries from Blockbuster online. My reason for suggesting this is you could gain some insights from them that you seem to want to understand.

Answer 2

I don't believe that the questions "where did it come from" or what existed before nothing existed can be answered by us because the human mind thinks in terms of bounds and starting and stopping. We cannot comprehend the idea of infinite just as we are bound to thinking in the 3 dimension.
However, evolution is a different topic. Evolution concerns survival of the fittest. It isn't about our planet 'grabbing' the perfect elements, its about things happening int he right sequence by coincidence and survival.
Life didn't jump from one celled bacteria to what we say today as humans. I don't even want to suggest that I know how or where evolution began but in this hypothetical situation evolution can be explained...
There are 1000 thin hippos and 1000 fat hippos. This species of Hippos lives in a river and one summer there is a flood. The fat hippos didn't get pushed by the water whereas the thin hippos drown. The population changes from 1000 thin hippos to just a 100 and the fat hippos drop to 900. If this species of hippos has a child every year and there is an equal number of male and female hippos alive, the fat hippos will produce 450 offspring whereas the thin hippos will produce only 50. If half the offspring die by disease the numbers change again.
Now if by proposing this question you are challenging evolution and suggesting that we should change our views to believing in a greater being you can apply and question that as well, as to where it came from.

As to the questions of 'when' what happened, it would be best to look it up in a book dedicated to eovlution because a timeline like that requires more understanding and detail because the answers produced have taken large amounts of study and examination.

And the world cannot become perfect if left to nature because changes keep happening and species keep changing though minutely. When the world formed it is said to have been hot, covered with volcanoes, and the continents to have been together as one large land mass. When any change happens something dies and the fitter survives. Evolution allows living things to run towards perfection but perfection gets farther every second resulting in no change from a different view.

As for explaining my person view of the concept, I do not believe in evolution 100% because I don't think that modern science explains everything and I believe that there is more to learn from the past and though the direction we are heading in has produced amazing results there are still things that we have given up which may hold some truths in them.

Answer 3

So, if evolution really happened, then

1.) how did it happen over a period of only 3-3.5 Billion years
2.4-2.9 Billion of which were spent evolving in to the SIMPLEST form of animal life, Then only 420 Million to get to the Oldest form of dinosaur and then an amazing 180 Million years to develop in to humans. It seems the more complicated the changes got the faster they happened... this seems a little counter intuitive doesn't it. Especially seeing that over the past 65000 years (using the same dating methods for everything else) there has been no change in ANY species, including humans, when there should be a change of at least 0.0361% the difference of the very first dinosaurs and humans, and actually more considering the rate of acceleration of evolution.

2.) Where are all the transitional species. Really there should be a continuous line of transitional species, in the order of 1000's of times more numerous than obviously distinct species, and yet we have a clumps of very distinct species. And no transitional forms.... something doesn't seem right here either.

Now those were the easier ones to argue away.

3.) Natural selection before there was something to select. If there was a primordial goop of amino acids, how in the world did they naturally and randomly combine to form even the simplest DNA, which is REQUIRED to replicate. More over, how did the proteins get created without the DNA guiding their creation. Proteins which the cell and DNA depend on to live let alone divide. Never mind the other mechanical devices required to create the proteins.

The fact is evolution doesn't have an answer and really can't answer these questions.


First i'd just like to say any book on the most basic introduction to the theories of evolution would answer most of your questions, but i suppose for you to hear both sides of the story would be too much

anyways
1.) 3.5 billion years is a long time, that's how
2.as species evolve and populations get larger, the size of the gene pool which they have to select from gets larger, so when they mate there are numerous more random combinations of genes occuring and that is what natural selection is based on, random mutations in DNA and those members of the species that are best able to pass on their DNA (re: best able to have children and have those children survive until they have children) will have their specific mutation of DNA spread out more in the population than those of members of the species who die or whatever. So in conclusion, larger more sophisticated species populations=more random mutations= larger selection of possible best DNA for species=faster evolution.
2.)yes you';d be quite right here if the fossilized remains of every animal that ever lived were under ground and easily accessible to archeologists. The fact is, however, the conditions for an animal to be fossilized are so precise that the amount of ancient animals that got fossilized is a extremely infiniestimally small percentage of all the animals that have ever lived, and then combine that with archeologist only really being able to find those that are easily excessible and you see my point
also i dont like this "continuous line of transitional species" that you put it suggests that you think there is a straight line of evolution from single celled organisims to humans, which demonstates a complete misunderstanding of the theory of evolution. Evolution is not a straight line, evolution is randomly occuring all the time in all species on this planet, any species can have a sub-genus offshoot from it, one that are still a member of the species but have some distinct about it that make it slightly indepedant of the main species. Some of these will be around very short ammounts of time then die out, some will stay around for a while, then die out, and some eventually evolve into a distinctly indepedent species of their own. Different sub-genus and species come and go all the time, and homo sapians are just another offshoot, that really still hasn;t been around long enough for people to conclude it has staying power, not the pinical of the constant transistional line of evolution.
3.)okay here, i have read the theory of how this happened, but it escapes me at the minute, i will get back to you on this one, for now, suffice it to say that it happened.

Answer 4

Listen, don't listen to the bible thumpers on this answer section. Not only did evolution happen, it continues to happen today. The domestication of animals and plants is man-made "evolution." Mutations of genetic sequences cause some animals to be more successful than others, therefore, they produce more offspring and are able to avoid predators. Other mutations (like albino critters) make animals more visible and more susceptable to prey which is why we don't see these traits very often. The animals that show these traits don't tend to live long. When "drug-resistant bacteria" are mentioned, this is referring to the mutation or evolution of bacteria to survive the antibiotic.

Your greyhound, poodle, and tabby cat were not on Noah's Ark, nor were they food for dinosaurs. They evolved over a very short amount of time from wolves and wildcats from man's actions. This occurred over thousands of years. Natural selection had HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of years to make the dramatic changes we see today. The oldest forms of animals are also observed in the oldest rock formations. This is no coincidence. By the way, for those critics that like to pick apart radio-carbon dating as not being accurate, they completely miss the fact that there are many, many ways of dating rock and fossils. Fission tracking, argon argon, potassium argon, and many others help to nail down the date of a fossil.

I like to use a jigsaw analogy for these types of questions. In a 500-piece puzzle, you don't have to have all 500 pieces in place to get a really good picture of what's going on. Science doesn't have all the answers and never will, but the beauty of the scientific method is that it is always open to new information which is why evolution is still called a theory. Proof is not a scientific term. It is a math term. Proof is thrown around by the media and others not versed in the scientific method. Repeatability is part of the method, and evolution continues to be the best-fit model for all the data so far.

Regarding the big bang theory and the "something from nothing" question, that is a huge question that physicists everywhere are trying to answer. There are some very interesting theories on how the first single-celled animals and DNA were created, read Discover Magazine or peer-reviewed scientific journals for the most recent research. Also, take a full year of college biology. The similarities between animal types (ex. birds and reptiles) in addition to trait and genetics will leave very little doubt in your mind that evolution has and continues to happen.

By the way, people (scientists and non-believers) who know evolution to exist are not usually "god haters" or otherwise disrespectful of religion. Science and religion just needs to be separate. Science is open to new evidence and the working model may change according to future findings. Religion is doctrine, and not subject to new data or evidence.

Good luck in your quest for answers. You're already on the path of a scientist!

Answer 5

You want a scientific explanation? Try studying it. You won't get the answer you want here. Or do you really want the answer? Are you just trying to be controversial (it's possible)? Start with Darwin. Even though some of his ideas are outdated, he was brilliant and answered a lot of your questions. And then do some research. I did, and was surprised to find that a lot of these things have answers (I still do not believe evolution, but for different reasons than I used to. No, they are not religious, so we'll just get that out right now...) Oh, and after you find the answers, find why the are not really good answers after all:)

Answer 6

We can be almost completely certain that there was a "big bang" at the beginning of time, and we know all kinds of things about what happened then and after then, including how life probably arose from simple organic molecules created by lightning hitting a specific mixture of elements, and how over the course of millions of years those molecules became the life we see all around us, but it is still a complete mystery "why" it happened. The answer to that question probably lies in the field of theology or philosophy, not science.

If you study a little biology, you'll soon conclude, though, that "intelligent design" is one of the least likely explanations, unless you are willing to accept a Creator who isn't very good at His job; remarkable though life is, there are so many "errors" in the "design" of living organisms, they must either be the product of random chance or of very poor design.

Answer 7

You've asked several excellent questions, but many of them are ones science can't answer. "Why is there anything, instead of nothing?" is one of the most basic philosophical questions. (Try asking that in the Humanities/ Philosophy section!)

As far as how the world can exist, I don't see any way in which something can come from nothing, which means that there had to have been something prior to the Big Bang. But a lot of people don't like to admit that, because they are afraid of (or resent having to be responsible to) "Someone Else Out There".

Answer 8

Science is a long way from being able to explain everything.

It is almost impossible to visualize what electricity is or radio waves or light, but we utilise them all the time because science knows something about them.

Evidence points to all the universe emanating from one spot. There are other hints of this. It is a theory, and even if it was 100% true it does not mean we would necessarily be able to visualise it.

The fact is we can't visualise a boundless universe or a finite one. It must be one or the other, but we cannot imagine either scenario.

So, for soemthing to be true we do not have to totally understand it, same as we can't visualise electric current flowing in a cable, but we would be stuck if we couldn't use it - we wouldn't be communicating with each other for a start.

Answer 9

Well, random chance has a big part to play in how we exist. The big bang occurred, creating subatomic particles which eventually created atoms. These atoms fused to create other atoms. Eventually this big soup of atoms formed stars, and then planets.
Remember that we are talking about billions of years for this to take place. This is a lot of time for these planets to randomly occur.
Then, on our planet, the interactions of these atoms eventually generated amino acids, which over time formed proteins, which later formed more complex molecules. These more complex molecules got together and with huge amounts of time formed cells, which randomly mutated, again over a huge period of time, to form what we know as life.
Most skeptics say the random chances of these things happening are incredibly small, which they are. But, to all the skeptics, we are talking about billions of years, with an impossibly large number of atoms.
The person who said that it is like a tornado going through a junk yard and making a car is absolutely right. But, if you have hundreds of trillions of junk yards that get hit by a tornado once a day for billions and billions of years, eventually one of them will form a really nice sports car.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

If the question of where we all really came from actually got answered life as we know it would end. Plaina nd simple there are 2 things all humanity has in common, procreationa and the quest for the answer to who we really are and where we came from. Take those away and we are left with nothing. Even if science could answer your questions I don't believe it ever would.