what is Evolution, anyway?

Answer 1

It is exactly what UNP said. Also evolution isn't about believing. You cannot believe in evolution. You can SUBSCRIBE to it. You are either a proponent or an oponent of evolution. There is no such thing as one who believes or doesn't believe in evolution. Belief only exists in non-falsifiable controversy; which evolution is not. Nor is it's existence even controversy. The mechanisms by which it works are currently being explored. There is no question as to whether or not evolution has happened, IS happening or will happen. Anyone that thinks otherwise can look at the evolution of the modern guppy through selective breeding. (Since clearly reading the countless studies and books on evolution is too sophisticated for you...and besides, they were probably written to obfuscate the truth from the less educated anyways.) On one side of the issue is A book littered with self contradictions and historical inaccuracies, on the other, thousands upon thousands of studies and works of literature that separately confirm the same theory. Who am I going to subscribe to? "Well I know because I say so and I feel it", or , "I know so because I've tested it, evaluated the results and retested it"? Anyways to clear up any misconceptions about scientific theories; there is no such thing as believe or not believing in them...plain and simple. Yours truly,

Mervin DePervin

Answer 2

Evolution is the theory (now a proven fact) that life forms change over time to develop new and different life forms. You probably know that the instructions for creating almost every living thing reside in a complex substance called DNA, which contains a coding (not unlike the ASCII characters in this text) which describe how to make the basic substances of the organism. Usually, the daughter cells inherit the parent's DNA unchanged, but sometimes, due to radiation damage, hostile chemicals, or other insult, an alteration occurs and the offspring will be somewhat different from the parent. Often, the difference will impede survival, and the mutation will die out, but sometimes it confers an advantage and the offspring will be more likely to reproduce and have offspring of its own. All of this applies to humanity, which has, over the last ten million years or so, evolved from a species which is also the precursor of modern-day apes. The opposition to the theory arises from people who, notwithstanding the science, prefer the religious tales of creation.

Answer 3

Evolution is a very very slow process therefore it falls in controversy; some believe some do not believe in evolution.

Answer 4

In biology, evolution is change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations, as determined by changes in the allele frequencies of genes. Over time, this process can result in speciation, the development of new species from existing ones.

All contemporary organisms on earth are related to each other through common descent, the products of cumulative evolutionary changes over billions of years. Evolution is thus the source of the vast diversity of life on Earth, including the many extinct species attested to in the fossil record.

According to the theory of evolution, the basic mechanisms that produce evolutionary change are natural selection (which includes ecological, sexual, and kin selection) and genetic drift; these two mechanisms act on the genetic variation created by mutation, genetic recombination, and gene flow.

The theory of natural selection was first set out in a joint presentation in 1858 of a pair of papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and popularized in Darwin's 1859 book The Origin of Species. Natural selection is the process by which individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce. If those traits are heritable, they are passed to the organisms' offspring, with the result that beneficial heritable traits become more common in the next generation. Given enough time, this passive process can result in varied adaptations to changing environmental conditions.

In the 1930s, Darwinian natural selection was combined with the theory of Mendelian heredity to form the modern evolutionary synthesis, also known as "Neo-Darwinism". The modern synthesis describes evolution as a change in the frequency of alleles within a population from one generation to the next.With its enormous explanatory and predictive power, this theory has become the central organizing principle of modern biology, relating directly to topics such as the origin of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, eusociality in insects, and the biodiversity of Earth's ecosystem.

Answer 5

Read "How could anyone call Evolution a religion" - it's right under this question. I tell you what it is on there.

Answer 6

Evolution is people who don't believe in creation but instead believe that the world is billions and billions of years old and that it evolved from a big bang. People who believe this are also prone to believing that man evolved from apes. I always ask that if man evolved from apes, then why do apes still exist, or are they the unfortunate ones who did not get to become humans. There are other things too. I believe in Creation and that God created this world, and also that the world is only 6000 years old. Here is a website that will help you with Science vs. Creation

http://www.drdino.com

Answer 7

Darwin's theory of evolution- is just that- a theory- all the links are missing-d

Answer 8

necessary biological or physiolocigal changes in order to addapt to a changing environment or ecosystem.

Answer 9

The displacement of love.. its in the word , so we need to evolve.. back.

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Answer 10

Its mean in my knowledge, it was unusual thing to make thing