What's your view on evolution?

Question

i am totally down with it but i want to see what others think.

Answer 1

It's up there with general relativity, continental drift and gravity.

Has stood the test of time and continues to acccumulate supportive evidence...

Answer 2

Evolution is a carefully protected, tax funded religion. There are 6 definitions of the word evolution, and only one of them is fact.
1) cosmic evolution-the origin of time space and matter. The big dud, I mean big bang. According to the big band theory, all this dirt got together for the big spin, the big squish, and the big bang. Where do you suppose all this matter came from? Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Everything tends towards disorder. The consurvation of angular momentum says that if an object is spinning and seperates in a frictionless enviorment, the fragments will be spinning the same way because the out side is moving faster. Why then do we have plants and moon orbitting and rotationg the wrong way? Why isn't everything distributed evenly throughout space? Remember what happens to the fragments of a grenade? They move further away from each other. Don't forget Boil's law and Cole's law.
2) Chemical evolution-the orgin of higher elements from hydrogen. The big dud produced a bunch of hydrogen, so how do we get the other 105 elements? You want me to believe uranium evolved from hydrogen! You can't fuse past iron, look at the table of elements, how do we get uranium?
3)Stellar and Planetary evolution-The origin of stars and planets. No one has ever seen a star form. Some like to think they see one forming in crab nebula. All they are really seeing is a spot be brighter. It's probably just some space dust moving out of the way. We see star blow up all the time (about every 30 years), they are called novas and super novas. And, if you add up all the nova rings in space it adds up to a few thousand years, not millions.
4) Organic evolution- Spontaneous generation. Life evolves from non-living matter. It rained on rocks for millions of years and it made life. You (teachers) call that education? I call it garbage and put it there.
5)Micro evolution-Variation within a kind of animal. Now this I believe in. This one happens. This is the only evolution the ever happens. I believe that the dog, coyotte, fox and wolf could have had a common ancestor. But it was a dog. Stand back and look at them, even a 5 years old can tell you that, But we got college professors that can't see it. They are all the same kind of animal.
6)Macro evolution-Where one kind of an animal changes into another kind of animal. No one has ever seen a dog produce a non-dog, and no one has ever found any missing link fossiles. You want me to believe I am related to a monkey? You want me to believe that birds come from reptiles? Give me a break. Monkeys, apes, and chimps are having babies today. I'd like to know why we never see one have a human. Add all the time you want, it is never going to happen. If you got someone teaching you evolution, they are either ignorant of science, or teach it to keep their job. Evolution is not science. It is a hinderance to real science. Science is things that are testable, repeatable, provible. Evolution is unscientific, unitellectual, and if I were you I would be embarested trying to defend the idea that we all come from a rock billions and millions of years ago.

secertsau gives you a classroom sounding explaination, but he is wrong. God created the heaven the earth and all that in them is. There is not such thing as a benefitical mutation. Natural selection does not cause evolution.
A mutation is a scrambling of, or a loss of exsisting genetic information.
Natural selection selects. It is like quality control. It will make sure you have a good spieces, but it will never turn a fish into a frog.
Evolution is not science.

Secretsau, Just read your answer to the question "Did whale walk on earth." You are an even bigger idiot than I originally thought. Whales do not have a vastigel pelvis. Those bones have nothing to do with walking on land and everything to do with getting baby whales. I see you have over 5000 points. I wonder how many of them were acquired through teaching lies.

Answer 3

Evolution is a fact. That organisms change over time is noted in the fossil record, supported by genetics and observed in real time.
The Theory of Evolution is Natural Selection, often updated as Neo-Darwinism. That too is well supported by observation and research.

Yes, a large segment of the US population does not accept evolution, but you have to remember, there are some powerful, wealthy organizations and churches that spread misinformation and lies about science. A little bit of work, doing some research, would dispell any notion that ID/creationism is scientific. Too bad our science classes are so bad and no incentive to learn science is taught.

Answer 4

The scientific evidence collected thus far provides firm and almost unquestionable support for organisms to have evolved. The mechanisms of evolution provide a method for organisms to exploit their environments many niches by adaptation. Those with suitable features are selected for breeding because they are more successful than those without. In the past 50 years selective pressure has been put on many organisms and these pressures have changed the frequency of genes in a population. This is exactly what evolution is. Notice that evolution is reactive not proactive. Examples include the change of the insect population to be resistant to pesticides and the change of bacteria to be resistant to antibiotics. This is a HUGE topic and subject to many intrepretations. One must look at the evidence and form one's own opinion. The scientific theory is a VERY powerful statement meaning that it is supported by all known evidence.

Answer 5

There are two questions here.

The first is whether evolution occurs. Almost everyone agrees that evolution occurs ... even hard core creationists have had to concede that species change slowly over time (and that is all that "evolution" means). They try to reserve the term "microevolution" for this process, to distinguish it from what they call "macroevolution", and what scientists call "speciation." Anyone who understands evolution knows that the only difference between "micro-" and "macro-evolutions" is TIME ... given any natural isolation of a subpopulation of a species, sufficient time will cause enough evolutionary change ("microevolution") to occur to make the temporary genetic isolation, permanent.

The second is whether this process, evolution, explains the diversity of life on our planet. The overwhelming evidence is that the answer is YES.

Or to put it another way ... nobody else has come up with a better explanation for things like the fossil record; the patterns of shared genes between species; molecular evidence (including the molecular clock); vestigial, homologous structures; atavisms; embyology; virology, embryology, and pest control and the development of immunities; biogeography; etc. etc.

In short, evolution is one of the strongest and most successful theories in the history of science.

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I have to thank 'lumber jack' for illustrating my point, despite calling me an idiot and a liar. First, he concedes that evolution does occur (type 5), but calls it 'microevolution' and then 'variation' (which is one of the three ingredients needed for natural selection ... the other two being *inheritance* and *competition*). Even though he says that mutations can only be harmful, he fails to see that his dog examples give a counter example ... where does he think the genetic material for all the different types of dogs comes from? They come from mutations (that are reinforced by selective breeding). Mutations are precisely the *source* of variation. All the types of dogs, from Chihuahuas to Irish Wolf Hounds are the result of less than 1000 years of active breeding by humans. Yes this was guided by humans ... but it was natural selection that produced the dog, wolf, coyote, and fox (which you concede all came from the same ancestor) within 100,000 years. Give it 1,000,000 (1 million) years and and you can have many more diverse species. Give it 100,000,000 (100 million) years and you have most of the species in the mammal line (including whales). (Incidentally, where on earth did you get the notion that whale hip-bones and leg bones are somehow useful for making baby whales? Have you ever *seen* a whale hipbone?)

But before calling me an idiot and a liar, you might want to look into Kent Hovind a bit more. His qualifications for those titles are *far* better than mine ... having been endorsed as such by answersingenesis.com, the State of Florida, and the IRS (not exactly stalwarts of 'evolutionism').

Answer 6

Don't entertain questions regarding evolution. The questions within it are bottomless. each question leads to another and then to another and so on. It has no end. You'll go crazy about it. Especially when religion and science clash.

Answer 7

It has the most extensive evidence of any scientific theory.

Answer 8

Very well supported scientific theory.