Natural Selection?

Question

I'm still confused by charles darwins theories... Natural selection mostly occurs with animals however i haven't seen any changes with animals and they havent changed in the pas few hundred years. Does this means that evolution is not real and that i have to start believing in God?

Answer 1

You should not be confused.
The process of Natural Selection takes much longer than what you are thinking and it is happening in a most imperceptibly manner.
I'll give you an example that you may find out : Eisenmenger complex is a complicated congenital heart disease where ,even with today's science ,the patient does not live more than about 25 years.
At a time when our life span was low they formed a significant proportion of the population. Now where the average life span is long their living proportion is relative low with less chance of reproduction of this anomaly. Its population ratio is decreasing.

Of course Charles Darwin never asked anyone to stop believing in God .

Look around and you can see the process of evolution.
To give you some food for thought :why do we talk of the volume of the cranium and why to-day's man has a bigger cranium volume/body volume ratio than our ancestors hunter gatherers.

IT is all SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

Answer 2

You can believe in which ever god you want, that's a separate issue and the existence of God does not have to be contrary to evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin noticed that organisms, plants and animals (latter microorganisms were added to this by other thinkers) that have something about them that allows them to survive in the present environment better than others, or allows them to reproduce more, or both, will become better represented in successive generations. It's all about individuals being able to leave more genes. Natural selection and adaptation is always occurring, but it opperates over a larger time scale than our lives, except in organisms with very short generation times - like microorganisms, fruit flies, mice, etc.

Answer 3

What a load of evolutionary tosh people talk.
If you people really believe evolution you ought to understand what you're talking about first!

Evolution, as understood in its broadest sense, meaning goo-to-you, amoeba-to-ape, is not the same thing as Natural Selection.
Natural (and artificial) Selection can be observed. We have different breeds of dogs. Lions and tigers are descended from the same 'big cat' type - they can interbreed to give Tions and Ligers. http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/271
The peppered moth example is not even natural selection - it was simply changes in population. And the evidence you see in most textbooks was fabricated anyway - the moths do not lie on tree bark during the day - the famous picture is a result of glued on dead moths.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/330/

Evolution is the hypothesis that animals can change into different kinds of animals by means of natural selection working on genetic mutations.
These alleged mutations need to add genetic information. However no such genetic mutation has ever been observed. Mutations are information neutral or lossy.
'But evolution is too slow to see' protest the evolutionists. Well then it's not observable and not worthy of being even called a theory. In any case, time is the enemy - mutations are resulting in the degradation of the gene pool - that is observable.

So you are correct that evolution is not real. It is best described as the religion of secular humanists.

It is easily refuted by the moderately diligent student.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4013/

Answer 4

the peppered moth was once light coloured, with a dark minority. Then the industrial revolution came along - and the pollution blackened many trees. The mothswere no longer camouflaged on the tres and got eaten, leaving just the dark ones. then clean air laws came in, pollution decreased and the trees got lighter again. bad news for the dark moths, but good for the light ones. this ithe fastest visible examle of evolution - a species being forced to change because of environmental changes.

Answer 5

Evolution doesn't happen in 200 years, but in millions of years, and it still goes on. According to some scientists we will eventually loose our little toes, as they serve no purpose, and that's what natural selection is all about: survival, through elimination of the useless parts and reinforcement of the useful.

It's not like you have to choose between God and Natural Selection in life. Even if you choose you have to choose, and God is the one who reassures you best, which religion will you follow, if you think you should choose one rather than respect God on your own principles?

Answer 6

a good example is that there was once a white moth that lived in enland a few hundred years ago that occasionally threw off a grey mutant. then once the industrial revolution got going and there was a lot of polution in the form of soot that gathered on houses and buildings the grey mutant moths became the dominant version and the white ones became the mutants due to the grey moths blending in better due to the soot discoloring their habitat

Answer 7

normal animal evolution takes millions of years for somew to start noticeing the cahnges but look at the evolution of bacteria and virus which occurs much more quickly more and more bacteria are starting to become anitbiotic reistant due to evolution Ie natrual selection

Answer 8

Some evolutionary changes take thousands or even millions of years, I guess.

Whether you believe in god is up to you. Some people believe in clairvoyance, others in fairies. There are still a few who believe the earth is flat. So......?

At least I feel I can believe in evolution, but god...?

Answer 9

Things happen slowly, although insects have changed color to match surroundings... Some moth species have become a more dirty gray to match polluted areas.

You probably won't see any big changes unless you live 10,000+ years.

And if you live 10,000 years, I think you should believe in yourself.

Answer 10

Evolution is happening all the time, you can see it happening in a lab if you want. Evolution by natural selection is the reason doctors tell people to finish their courses of antibiotics.

If you're ignorant, not too bright and want a simplistic explanation of the universe eg. 'god did it' rather than explore the reality of the universe through science, then religion is for you.