Can You Tell Me Anything You Know About Evolution, Any One Thing That Is True?

Question

SILENCE?

Answer 1

this theory has been rejected according to Qur'an ,Bible ,and Torah.
the idea that humans were originally animals who evolved to humans is silly.
Adam and Eve were humans , who could say otherwise ?

Answer 2

Evolution is based on the idea that there is a certain amount of differentiation within a species.... this is a fact, obviously all the animals within a species are not genetically identical.
These differences give an advantage to certain members of the population. Making them better able to find food, escape predators, fill a previously unrecognized niche, etc....
These individuals, that are better able to survive pass their traits on to their young, through sexual reproduction. Now we have a new generation, which also has genetic variation.
It would also make sense that a species would diverge into 2 separate species, as different portions of the population would be better suited at filling differen niches (i.e. less competition for resources if you spread yourself out. Over millions of years this would result in new species.
That was an incredibly watered down version... please read a book on the subject. Or you can stick with being ignorant, that's cool too.

Answer 3

1. natural selection is an observable phenomenon all around us, and even in us.
2. evolution means " change over time". this also is observable.
3. evolution in the modern sense cannot be supported scientifically without a lot of bolstering, and it requires an enormous act of faith on the part of its supporters.(in its present form) therefore it must be viewed as a religion - since it is unsupportable without faith.

understand that i am not particularly threatened by science - my wife teaches it; i just hate lapses in linear thought, and the biggest victim in the creation/evolution argument has been the truth. trying to cram all the facts into the box of your philosophy creates a problem when something refuses to fit. the only solution is to have a big enough box for everything. i believe in an infinite god (as related in the old and new testaments) that god is big enough to contain all the facts without my having to force anything into the container. christians shouldnt be so threatened by scientific discovery, and evolutionist shouldn't be so narrow-minded. the moment you exclude a possibility, your universe becomes a smaller, dingier place.

ps: will everybody please refrain from quoting the KJV? news flash - its a DEAD language!

Answer 4

actuality yes...

there is a species of mussel in the Atlantic ocean that originally had no crab predator, so it had pretty weak shells, then in the late 1800's an influx of European crabs came over on boats and the crabs started decimating the mussel population, the ones that survived EVOLVED a thicker shell... then more recently (i think within the last 20 years) an Asian crab population came along and repeated the same process... they could still eat the mussels because they were tougher than the European crabs until the mussels, very quickly EVOLVED a thicker shell...

I read a great in depth article about this in this weeks "the Week" magazine, but the first article i found on it on the Internet is here: http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2006-08/aaft-mga080406.php

it's a kids article but hey, maybe then some creationists can actually understand it...

you can't fight science....



here is another link:
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060810_mussel_evolve.html

and here is one about darwin's finch: http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060713_darwin_finch.html

i trust documentable science way more than a much translated and changed and misguided book written in a time of little scientific understanding... remember the bible had earth as the center of the universe... it was also flat... sorry guy, times change

Answer 5

Any one thing that's true about evolution?

Well, for one, pandas were natural carnivores. But due to lack of food supply as they got pushed out of their expansive natural habitat, they've developed strong jaws and flat molars and an elongated bone in the wrist for grasping (like an opposable thumb) to aid in the consumption of bamboo--which they've adapted to feeding on continuously to make up for the missing nutrients. Slow, gradual changes over time that differentiate them from their great-great-grandpandas.

Pretty neat, huh? That rather than just up and dying, the species was able to change over time to adapt to its changing environment? Now just take a minute to think critically about what evolution REALLY means in the vast global scope. Nothing clicking?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I will never understand religious fundamentalism. Can't you see that evolution, it's inteligence, is the only material proof of a creator there is?
What are you talking about? Every living creature, including yourself, is a proof of evolution.
Why do you think the Galapagos marine iguana learned how do swim unlike all it's "relatives" in mainland? Because it "evolved" that way in order to make better use of the nutrients available (algae).
Why do you think people used to live in caves and had hairy bodies and now live in apartments and wear clothes?
Why do you think some species went extinct thousands of years ago while others flourished?

Answer 8

Well, the idea of Macroevolution has no foundation, but microevolution through natural selection occurs all the time. It is simple really, over time a given species will lose its unwanted DNA until it only produces offspring without this unwanted DNA. Bacteria is an excellent example, the bacteria with the ability to resist a given antibiotic already exist, over time we kill off all of the bacteria that are non-resistant and that leaves only the resistant bacteria which reproduce and are immune to a particular treatment. This strengthens the species. Note, however, that macroevolution has not occured because it is still the same species.

Answer 9

Yes. Once there were huge animals on the planet that no longer exist. Once there was a time on the planet when human beings did not exist. Once there were feet on birds wings that no longer exist. Once the appendix was necessary for normal human functioning and it no longer is. Once we assumed flight was impossible, but while it always was our minds evolved to understand how and make it happen. Once we thought we could only communicate by mail which was sent over roads now we have evolved to sending it through thin air (nothing) and you can read what I am writing right now with no connection. Once we thought only horses and mules and camels and elephants could be the engines of transportation but we have evolved to engines driven on many types of fuel. Etc Etc Etc

Answer 10

If you mean, what the theory states, it's the idea that life arose without any intelligent direction or input (this hasn't been proven to be possible, but it's necessary for evolution to get started) and had the ability to self-replicate. It did, and over time mutations occurred, creating new genetic information (this hasn't been proven either, even though, if true, there should be hundreds of thousands of examples) and new traits, eventually producing every different animal alive today.

Answer 11

I'm a Christian of 2 years, and I learned about evolution before I came to Christ, so I know there's evidence of evolution that's inconsistent with the Bible. But it all depends on how you interpret the Bible, specifically the first chapter, Genesis. Some say it's not meant to be interpreted literally, but symbolically. For instance, Adam and Eve may just represent humans in their evolving from animals to spiritual people; they were not real people. People who reason that God may have used evolution to create humans say that successive days He took to create Earth are just figures of speech to show God's view of man as the ultimate goal of His plan of evolution, which shows why and how He loves us so much.

Romans 8:20-21 - For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.