If evolution was how all species of life came to be on earth, why arn't we still seeing it's evidence?

Answer 1

excuse me? look around you?
i think you need to rephrase the question, maybe you meant how come new species aren't emerging every day?

Answer 2

The short answer is: we do see the evidence.

The problems are twofold --

(1) By and large, evolution happens over LONG periods of mind -- keep in mind that it took 3 BILLION years to get the level of diversity we have today. It's not really something we can see in a single lifetime.

(2) When evolution DOES happen with organisms that reproduce (and thereby mutate) over very short periods of time (bacteria, for example), creationists immediately bleat out, "Wait! That doesn't count, it's only MICRO-evolution!", completely forgetting the fact that dividing animals into categories like species and phyla are completely MAN-MADE distinctions with no intrinsic meaning.

You've lost; evolution is a fact. Time to admit you were mistaken.

Just like you were with the notion of a flat earth.

Just like you were with the geocentric universe.

Just like you were with demonic possession causing mental illness.

And so on, and so forth.

Answer 3

We are, in the fossil record among other things.

Evolution is a slow process. Very, very, very slow. There are no huge changes from generation to generation, so creationists will jump on that. Nobody sees evolution happening right in front of them unless they're watching a baby being born.

Your argument is akin to my saying that the American Revolution never happened because there are no British troops marching around Boston. Forget the books, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, that's not evidence. It had no effect on modern society, because I'm not seeing it happen right now.

Answer 4

We are. Check out any of the many journals on medical science do some basic research into antibiotic resistance. This is a form of macroevolution because it leans to distinct species/strains.

Check out the research on the development of the human skull from an evolutionary perspective -- turns out we're still evolving that one to support larger and more folded brains (the folds are all-important to consciousness and higher brain function), and in keeping with the fossil record of our species development.

Anyone who says we aren't seeing its evidence is looking for an insect to give birth to a reptile -- that's not how evolution happens. The changes are gradual, requiring tens of thousands of years at the MINIMUM (and this minimum is called punctuated evolution) and millions or billions of years for gradual evolution.

Think about this... 3.5 billion years ago, protolife began in the chemical stew on this planet, sliding across the bios spectrum from abiotic to biotic, and you are nothing more than the current form of that chemical reaction because that chemical reaction began all the way back then and continues today.

You came from your mother's ova and your father's sperm. They came from their parents, etc etc etc until you get back to the very first organism(s). You are the same chemical reaction that started all the way back then. You are part of a 3.5 billion year long chemical process that looks primed to continue for another billion or more if one portion of it, humanity, doesn't create conditions that cease that reaction. One meta-process that is composed of thousands of smaller metabolic processes.

You literally ARE that first life, and your DNA contains all the proof needed.

Answer 5

we are. You have to remember that human beings have been in their current state for about 40,000 years. We have about 5,000 years of recorded history. How will we see a change in that short a period of time for large mammals?
As for smaller animals with much shorter life spans, we see speciation, but creationists aren't satsified with that, they want the big stuff. It's a no-win situation.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html

Answer 6

No they are not!! What darwin sees and any other evolutionist are just MUTATION not EVOLUTION.

edit:

there is a huge diff between those two. evolution suggest that a creature may jump from one species to another...

see, some people may be short, tall, dark, light, sexy, not. but we are all human beings!! we are of the same species. (to all bird brains, mutation doesnt necesarilly mean turning into zombies like u watch on mvies ok?)

and to all to evolutionist out there im so sorry to inform u that u cant grow wings and fly in the sky....

Answer 7

Because it happens over millions of years and all the evidence you're looking for is now $2.34 per gallon.

Answer 8

It is generally a slow process, but you can see evidence of it...if you are able to see at all after being used to blind beliefs.

Answer 9

Evolutions takes a while. Relatively speaking, it was only discovered seconds ago...

Answer 10

we are, people just don't look in the right places to witness the evolution.