Can evolutionist explain in a scientific term how we all got here?

Answer 1

No, they can't. The fact is the fossil record does not support evolution. You don't see gradual changes from one species to another. You do see massive extinctions followed by periods booming with new species. It's like God was playing around--seeing what worked and what didn't. Who knows, we may be an experiment gone awry. ;-)

Answer 2

A true Evolutionist has many things to support his or her Ideas. Evolution simply means change. Life changes form to be able to exist in an ever changing environment. It does not take a genius to see that as the Earth ages, life forms must change or become extinct. There are very few Dinosaurs walking around today, because the conditions currently in existence do not permit it.
Evolutionists believe that the Earth is a living thing. How can you get life from a dead thing, like the planet Mars, just for example.
Life started after the earth cooled enough to permit it. It started because the conditions for the beginning of life were there. Life is not a unique thing it is just another form of the Earth that suppoorts it. The Diameter of this planet is 8000 miles and we are living on a crust that is approximately 50 miles thick. Hard Rock miners have dug down to the point where Rock temperatures were 120 degrees F. The life that existed in the beginning is the same life that exists today. It has been passed on from being to being. Seen much life life pop up in a field and walk around lately?
of course not.
Be happy that you are alive and remember that all of us are really spirits inhabiting a corporeal body in order to exist in this present environment.

Answer 3

It is in the literature. You can find out about it if you want to by doing a web search for science, scientific, evolution, Darwin, "natural selection" etc., or any combination of the above.

You used the word "evolutionist" as if it were a religion or philosophy. It is not. It is scientific fact. Evolution is a theory in the same way that number theory and the theories of relativity and gravitation are theories. It is generally proven beyond any reasonable doubt, if not beyond the religious beliefs and mythology of some people. "Description of a Possible Conclusion" is not the only definition of "Theory."

Individuals who do not accept the mythology of the Bible do not have to explain evolution. That does not mean they don't have a good explanation, it would just be a waste of their time. If you really do want to know the scientific basis for evolution, there is extensive scientific documentation about it readily and easily available on the internet.

Answer 4

I took a bus.

I can in fact explain, using scientific terminology, the process of the origin of life. Not only that, I can explain without jargon, using only a minimal terms when necessary, and impervious to all the feeble attacks that the "Scientific" Creationists dreamed up. In fact, I see more jargon misused in Creationist literature than used in discussions of the of the subject.

Will I here? No. This is the wrong forum, it requires at least a book chapter, and the questioner isn't really interested in an answer or he would have looked it up. If I did I would also be good enough to separate fact from speculation (essentially untestable hypotheses).

Why the flippant answer at the start? It's easy to write something simple that sounds good and means nothing. Ask our questioner.

Answer 5

Not in this amount of space. But think of it this way: every year doctors must come up with a new flu vaccine. Why? Because the flu virus mutates so quickly that last year's flu vaccine is no longer effective. The mutation of the flu virus is evolution right before our very eyes. Evolution happens faster on the scale of the very small. It's hard to get any smaller than a virus. Big creatures like man take much longer to change appreciably into a sub-species or new species. Look at cows and pigs. 10,000 years ago there were no cows or pigs like we see them today. Why? Because man selected the traits he liked and selected against those he didn't. The results are the farm animals we see today which we have "manufactured" out of their wild cousins. Now if artificial selection can do that in 10,000 years or less, what must nature be able to do given a few billion years? Get it?

Answer 6

Go take an evolution course. No one is going to summarize the last 150 years of scientific research and discovery here in a way that will make sense to you if you don't know anything about it. Seriously - go take a course, or get a good book on the subject. Dawkins' 'the ancestors tale' is a good one.

Answer 7

I will assume from the non-scientific question "how we all got here" that you mean how did human beings arise.

You have posed your question to "evolutionist," not to a cosmologist, so rather than deal with the beginnings of the universe, I'll restrict my answer to biology.

Initially for life to begin, amino acids formed into proteins & ribonucleic acid (RNA) molucules that are theorized to have developed and begun duplicating themselves, all in an energy-high environment, such as around thermal vents in the earth's crust. These energy sources were once much more prevalent than they are now. Amino acids develop in a chemical soup that would have been present at the formation of the earth. Research indicates that this process began about 3.5 billion years ago.

As these molecules reproduced themselves in this energy, some of the cellular information began to be based on DNA, a variant of RNA, although some creatures continued to be based on RNA. The DNA & RNA began to develop coatings that became nucleus and cell walls, developed genetic encoding on the chemical molecules, and through random variations, some began to find new ways to absorb energy, such as taking in light to perform photosynthesis, absorbing other creatures, etc.

As everyone knows, everything that lives eventually dies. However, if an individual can survive long enough to reproduce more offspring, the genetic material in the longer-lived individual will move on down the timeline. This is particularly important in the light of environmental changes that have occurred since life arose.

Mutations in DNA produce (often tiny) variations. Over billions of years and billions of generations, these tiny variations take on greater and greater diversity. Populations that are divided from one another or dispersed by weather, plate tectonics, wandering, etc., diverge in development. Some creatures stay in similar locations, but because a genetic variation allows for the one subset to metabolize a particular type of food, while the remainder cannot metabolize that particular food, they can develop separately and eventually become separate species. (Separate species cannot generally successfully mate and produce viable [or at least fertile] offspring.)

So carry this out over the course of billions of years and you end up with a broad variety of creatures. However, the DNA evidence of their interconnections is growing each year, with more and more studies indicating the path that evolutionary change took to bring about the current state of our creatured planet.

Human beings are simply another of the lucky survivors. Our DNA, when compared with that of the chimpanzee, indicates that each species arose from a common, now extinct, primate ancestor.

Answer 8

can a creationist explain in scientific terms how we got here

Answer 9

Well.... We were created by an invisible man who was never created and has always existed... he molded this kid Adam from a speck of dirt.... then Adam got lonely so instead of creating a woman from another speck of dirt he performed surgery and made her out of one of Adams Ribs..... Then they ate an apple and got their groove on.....

Answer 10

No but then we don't need to. Supposing we couldn't would that make evolutionary change in species any less factual? Try barking up another tree.