what is evolution?

Answer 1

Evolution is the change that occurs over a period of time, sometimes a very long period of time. The word evolution is often associated with two other words: revolution and mutation.
Revolution is the change that takes place rather quickly and is often associated with violence. Mutation is a change - usually regarding genetics - that occurs abruptly, with the cause of change being outside of what is changed.

;-D There are many kinds of evolution, revolution and mutation.

Answer 2

Simply put... Evolution is Change...


But to imply that Creation isn't Evolution as "oianzinho" implies is like reading several chapters in a book and basing an opinion only on those chapters that were read.

I firmly believe and have taught that Creationism and Evolution are like two people walking on a stairway. One is walking down while the other is walking up. Each travel the same path from a different direction. It isn't until both meet in the middle will truth be seen.

God designed Humanity to survive... The only way to survive in a complexed world is to allow for change. Evolution is change... Therefore, God provided humanity with the ability to evolve into something beyond their present state to accomodate the environment they live in.

An example: I live in Florida. When it gets down to 70 degrees, I need a jacket. Yet, I moved and lived in New York for 14 years. By the time I left New York to come home to Florida, I was walking around with out a shirt because the temp finally increased to 40 degrees. After a few years of being home again, I need a jacket at 70 degrees.

Why this difference? My blood thickened due to the acclimation to the northern climent. Now that I am in the southern climent, my blood thined. My body did these things to survive... It was change. I had evolved both times to adapt to the changes around me. These maybe extremely minor changes, but change is change. Over a long, long period of time, who knows what might happen.

Another change... During the 50's there was a show called "Ma and Pa Kettle". These two individuals were old and wrinked to the point that they look ancient. I didn't find out until many years later that they were only 50 at the time. In our time, not even 90 year old people look as old as the Kettles did back then. Perhaps it is simply that I am older now. But I don't think so. I feel that we are healthier now than we were back then. We live far longer and are more active than just 50 years ago. We are living so much longer that Social Security had to increase the retirement age to reflect what was to be considered as the proper age for retirement. That is a significant change. Perhaps that change is caused by Physicians and Technology, but no matter the cause, change is change. Did we have a still minor evolutionary change in humanity?

Perhaps it was change that was possible all along. The Bible speaks of people living for 1000 years. I don't agree with that as I feel it is a misconception. Durning the earliest of times humanity was developing the calendar. That would be for another topic, or just email me and I will fill in those details further.
Anyway... by my math and figures, those figures of the Bible lived to be around their middle to late 80's. Which is about right... However, most people in those days died at around 40 as "Old people". That's why most people got married around 14-15... It would have been a near middle aged time for them. Thus, from their perspective, an 80 year old person would have been old when they were born and old, but still living, even after they died of old age. They would seem to have been ancients...

The thing is that we now live naturally until the middle to late 80's. This again is change... for whatever the causes, change is still change. Are we evolving? Then, I have to ask with all those people that are having children at such a young age, is this a sign that we are headed for a de-evolutionary time in our humanity?

If you'd like to discuss these things... email me.

Getting back to the question: Evolution is Change... And, I seem to have evolved into a creationist...

Answer 3

Evolution says that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny came from the same one celled organism in some mud puddle that just appeared out of nowhere.

Answer 4

Most people don't understand BIOLOGICAL evolution.

This is based on death: those organisms which are less fit to survive die off, and those which are more fit to survive, survive.
Case-in-point: longer-necked animals can reach higher food, hence more food, so they are more likely to survive. After generations of only the longest necks surviving, we get the modern giraffe!

A lot of people like to say they believe in evolution, just because they want to believe something besides creation. They do not understand the role of death, and even go so far as to deny it. They want to think evolution is just a pretty little impetus that defies entropy by magic!

Answer 5

Evolution is merely a change in gene frequency over time.

Answer 6

in my own words evolution is when a species changes its looks and ways of living to fit and be more confortable with its sorroundings.

Answer 7

A genetic change in a gene pool (population) over time.

Answer 8

false