The main reason why anyone will not accept evolution is because they are not educated in the discoveries made from cell biology for the last century. Is this true?
2007-01-19 06:42:25 · 7 answers · asked by beboe007 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Species change over time and they are still changing. Living organisms have to adapt to the change in their environment or they will die. Do you think that the people who lived here prior to automobiles and other forms of pollution could survive breathing the air of today? Not likely.
Evidence includes vestigial organs like your appendix or the tailbone at the end or your spine; fish that live in total darkness that still have eyes, and so on. Vestigial organs are often similar to organs that are useful in other species. The vestigial tailbone in humans is homologous to the functional tail of other primates. Thus vestigial structures can be viewed as evidence for evolution: organisms having vestigial structures probably share a common ancestry with organisms in which the homologous structure is functional.
Adaptations such as beaks designed to eat specific foods existing on the same species of bird is another good example. The same species may have a different type of beak depending on where they live and what foods are available.
Similarities in embryos, biochemical makeup, and homologous structures are other examples. If a bat, a human, a whale, and a penguin all evolved from a common ancestor, then they should share common anatomical traits, right? In fact, they do. Check out their forearms; the bones are adaptations of the same design.
The fossil evidence and evidence from living organisms strongly suggest that species evolve. No one is saying that people came from apes, we simply share a common ancestor. Why is that so hard to imagine?
DNA evidence is pretty convincing as well.
2007-01-19 07:32:00 · answer #1 · answered by michelle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Catachism of the Catholic Church and every priest I speak with on this issue have said the same thing. It is okay to believe in Evolution as a Catholic because of the strong biological evidence, but you have to believe that God is the one who created the life (bacteria) that eventually evolved. God created the evolutionary chain of events. Whether people believe that God did this or not is a debate between religion and science. It's not out of fear no one accepts evolution, it's just a personal belief they have, and therefore ignore the scientific evidence. Just like with anything else, it's a belief they have, and they are not open-minded enough to change their view no matter how much evidence is presented.
2016-05-23 22:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by Judith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rather than copy-paste from a previous answer, here is an answer I gave to this question previously (10 categories of physical and observational evidence):
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhqkfwtTFjlH5g6Gu1pbNSnsy6IX?qid=20061114162706AAJ3vs9
As for your second question, based on the types of questions we see here on YA, the main reason most people do not accept evolution isn't just a lack of understanding of cell biology, but simply because they DO NOT UNDERSTAND EVOLUTION AT ALL. They literally have 2nd-Grade understanding of what evolution is ... what I call the CARTOON version of evolution (things like man evolving from monkeys, instantaneous change, evolution as a single chain, etc.). (And I say that with apologies to all the 2nd-Graders I know who have a FAR better understanding of evolution than most of the creationist posts I see on YA.)
So it is not a lack of understanding of the evidence (like cell biology). It is a lack of understanding of the theory itself!
2007-01-19 13:48:51 · answer #3 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the following:
Fossil records. Those things they dig up that look human, but really aren't.
DNA evidence of some major mutations when compared to members of the same genus.
Vestigial organs. You still have parts of a nictitating membrane in your eye.
Vestigial behavior. arrector pili raise what used to be hair over your body when you were cold or scared. Since the hair is mostly gone, these results in goose bumps. Raised hair would keep you warm by trapping in air, or make you look bigger to scare off animals.
Those are off the top of my head, and I know only 4.
2007-01-19 07:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Bryan M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sicle Cell Anemia
English tree moths
the Flu
the common cold
galapagos finches
2007-01-20 05:23:32 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say but there are none.
2007-01-19 06:51:50 · answer #6 · answered by cpc joe 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
Yes that is basically true.
2007-01-19 07:16:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋