Can you Prove that evolution is the truth?

Question

Evolution says that all life comes form one single cell at the beginning of creation. That single cell became every type of fish in the ocean and every anamal on the earth. This means even you and me. Is evolution true?

Answer 1

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 the 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 2

No, evolution does NOT say everything came from a single cell at the beginning of creation ! "Creation"??? Best thing you can do is go to the library and look at some books on the subject. Nothing can be proved 100%. Some things may never be known.

Answer 3

The universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The first evidence of life is preserved in rocks about 4 billion years old. Your first cell dates from almost 10 billion years after creation.

As the "primordial soup" in which life arose was consumed when life arose, it is unlikely, but not impossible, that we will ever see an isolated sample of the world before life arose. The fact that the genetic code is nearly universal suggests it arose only once.

Is evolution true? Maybe. Is there critically evaluated evidence to support evolution? Museums, full, libraries full, and the vast array of life on Earth, itself.

Answer 4

Evolution is the only thing that can be "proved" (prove is not a good term )because it is the only thing that we can observe study and test. The theory that we come from a higher being or from a asteroid or some extraterrestrial form can not be. some think Evolution is battling the religious views of creation it is not really nothing to do with religion keep a open mind and study it because it is the very interesting and true nothing false about it. Their is more to the whole evolutionary process besides that we come from apes and not Adam and eve.. blah blah

Answer 5

Evolution is a theory. It seems to be the theory that best fits the data. Don't think of it as everything from one single cell. Think of it more like a cell that multiplied, then mutations occurred so that there were several thousand types of single-cell organisms. Then those organisms found that they had a better chance of surviving if they arranged themselves into groups. As time goes by, the groups become organisms. More mutations occur. Different groupings produce different organisms. More mutations, so on and so forth.

Again, evolution is a THEORY. Is it possible? Sure. It took 4.5 billion years for Earth and its current inhabitants to end up looking like we do. But 4.5 billion years is a long time. That is 4,500,000,000 years. That's like living your life hundreds upon hundreds of times, over and over. Anything can happen in that length of time, dontcha think?

Answer 6

Darwin is the guy who got here across evolution. It wasn't invented. that's a organic technique very like gravity. It filters risky mutations out of the gene-pool, leaving the two sturdy or independent mutations. some risky ones do get by using as recessive genes yet something that forestalls an organism from producing offspring is far less possibly to get handed directly to next generations. by making use of gazing the strata of the earth, we are able to work out that the earth is struck by making use of a mass extinction asteroid each and every 50-70 million years. i think of our next one is due in approximately 30 million years (yet you may desire to reach day after today) Evolution is shown by making use of all the evidence of which dinosaur fossils are a tiny section. i in my view sense that Genetics play the biggest section in proving problem-unfastened ancestry. each and every organism in the worldwide is a much off cousin of another organism. you may examine "beginning place of Species" by making use of Darwin after which you would be able to have a extra valuable be attentive to-how of evolution.

Answer 7

Please listen very closely to the people who are trying to correct a *basic* error in your question. Science does not "prove" things. Science puts forth the best theory that explains the current evidence ... that is all. Evolution is the best theory that explains evidence in many many different fields:
- fossil evidence, (structures, homologies, geographical locations);
- radiometric dating of fossils (giving very precise ages);
- stratigraphy (where fossils are found in the rock layers);
- genetic evidence (e.g. the number of genes in common between pairs of species);
- molecular evidence (e.g. the rate of transcription errors (basically "typos" that appear in DNA, and how this corresponds perfectly with fossil dating);
- morphology (e.g. vestigial organs ... like the same muscle in humans and primates, that doesn't do anything in humans, but in primates is used for GRASPING WITH THE FEET);
- biogeography (e.g. marsupials are found almost exclusively in Australia, evidence of isolated evolution);
- homologous proteins (e.g. the proteins in human and primate blood that gives us our A/B/O blood typing system, the precise structure of our insulin molecule, the presence of photopigments that gives color vision, found only in primates, not in other mammals, etc.)
- bacteriology; virology; immunology;
And way more categories that I want to type in here.

Even the concept that all of life ... every human, every squirrel, every lemur, kangaroo, fish, oak tree, orchid, mushroom, sponge, amoeba, bacterium, etc. that we've ever found ... all use the same exact structure of DNA ... all use the same genes ... to the point where we share 50% of our genes with a banana ... that all provides *strong* evidence that we are all related. And the specific degree of relation between any two species shows the same pattern of ANCESTRY, that we see when we do pedigrees of people who are related over many generations.

Does all of this PROVE evolution? No. But it all paints an extremely strong picture.

Is is also possible that God created all living things in such a way that they simply APPEAR to be related by ancestry.

All science can say is that if this is true, then God really, really, really wanted us to think we are all related by ancestry, because all the signs point that way.

Answer 8

If you were truly interested in investigating evolution , you'd be at the library and on the net reading actual texts on the subject instead of asking a bunch of people on the internet their opinions about it. Educate yourself. Go and read. Find out the facts. Thank you for playing, though.

Answer 9

Nope you can't prove it; it's a theory.

That doesn't mean its wrong.

The definition of a theory is "a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact."

A theory stands until it is proved wrong. Theory's are never proved right, we just find more evidence to support it.

I sure believe evolution is true.

Answer 10

I believe that the evidence for evolution is much stronger that the evidence for creationism.