What concrete evidence is there that evolution actually occurred?

Answer 1

There is no evidence for macro evolution. It is only a fairy tale, thought up by atheist scientists, to try and discredit religions' believe of creator(s). It is a phallacy. Everything has a creator.

Answer 2

Every fossil, every observation in biology points to evolution. There is nothing that goes against it or points to a different way to scientifically explain modern diversity. There is not one fossil or one piece of DNA that does NOT point to evolution. It would be hard NOT to see the concrete evidence, and only those blinded by faith can do this.

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.

There are some areas of evolution in which all of the pieces have not been found in the fossil record, but there is no counter theory that has even ONE piece of evidence that can not easily be explained by evolution.

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 or http://www.talkorigins.org ) and find out for yourself.

Answer 3

I don't recall the details on this but you can probably find the full facts via an internet search. Until European settlers began arriving in North America less than 500 years ago there were no apple trees on the continent. But there was a tree that was related to the apple, I don't recall it's name, say tree X. There is and was an insect that lays eggs in I think the flower buds of tree X.

The apple tree buds, flowers and fruits rather later than tree X. Some of the insects mated later than others and laid eggs on tree X and on the apple tree. Those that laid eggs on tree X died out because the grubs could not feed. Those that laid eggs on the apple tree produced surviving offspring.

After a few hundred years there are two species. One lives on tree X exactly as their ancestors did. The other lives on the apple tree. Though both species are superficially the same, close inspection shows that the differ in appearance. Closer inspection show that they physically cannot mate. Since they cannot interbreed, they are different species.

If this is true, it is probably one of the best examples of evolution that is available. Anyone can understand it.

To the believer, no explanation is needed. To the non-believer, no explanation is possible. - to misquote someone or other.

Answer 4

There is no "concrete" evidence for evolution. Concrete is a man-made product containing cement, sand and crushed rock fragments. What you need to do is to just put on blinders and repeat everything your brainwashers are telling you to say.

Answer 5

You are probably confused because there IS actual evidence for evolution, and your religion is just a fariy tale that HAS NO EVIDENCE at all.

Keep your religious propagand in your own area. We are interested in real science, not crazy mythology.

You are what is wrong with this world. If there was a heaven, and you were there, then I'd gladly go to h-e-double hockey sticks.

Answer 6

Millions of fossil specimens clearly showing a gradual transition in animal types from older to more recent rock formations, ever since life appeared on earth. This includes not just the appearance of new species, but the gradual development or elimination of whole families and orders of animal life. If anyone can offer a viable alternative scientific theory that can explain this observed trend, they stand to become famous overnight. But so far there are no takers. Wonder why?

Answer 7

The evidence is in:
1) geology,
2) comparative anatomy,
3) embryology and
5) DNA "ology"

The is so much evidence, and it's totally logically
consistent within itself(i.e., no contradictions) that it begs
the old question,"if evolution were not true, why did God
go to so much trouble to make us think it is".

Then you've got those who say God put all that evidence there to test our faith. That's saying that God favors faith more than
logic. If you believe in God than you have to admit that God
gave us logic but man created faith. And I say that since we all
have some sense of logic but not all have faith. And since man created faith, then he invented God. Which brings up another
old saying, "if God did not exist, it would be necessary for man
to invent him".
What has man survived on more in his whole past, faith or
logic. If you believe it's faith then I doubt your self-knowledge.

Answer 8

1. Go look in the mirror.

2. Flu Virus evolving the ability to jump from animals to humans

3. Bacteria evolving resistance to antibiotics
4. Fossil records

5. Scientific literature on the evolution of species, including you

Answer 9

The fact that life exists.

Answer 10

what concrete evidence is there that God designed all species as we see them now, bang?

Answer 11

Fossils are nice and solid. The Creationists will say God planted them to test their faith.