what is the basic belief of evolution?

Question

What did we evolve from? What is the proof?
Just wanted to find out your thoughts...

Answer 1

i think Darwin's Theory Of Evolution is right n basic theory of evolution

Answer 2

Basic belief-we evolve-we slowly mutate to survive in our environment or your species dies out.

Things are changing rapidly in what is believed. The old basic evolution theory was a spark of life took place in some gooey pond. Then someone said, I'll bet it took place in the clouds. It makes more sense. Now I heard someone from NASA say they thought we could have been hit by an asteroid and those little amino acids and spark could have come from that. What's in your book? We live, we learn, we write new books.
I think they can track humans back to crinoids. Back in the days when oxygen was just a thought, these things lived in the ocean. All I remember is that they have a long neck like structure and there is a fossil of one in the rock garden where I was raised. Proof is simple-Look in my mouth, I have no wisdom teeth. According to my geology teacher I am a mutant. The wisdom teeth are useless and so we are evolving and getting rid of them, much like our appendix and little toe. More proof. First there are no fossils, then there are. Little ones, then bigger ones and you can track who was what and when. It requires no faith, just fact.
This question has a religious ring to it so a question for you. How would you expect priests to write a book about things of which they had no knowledge or couldn't even begin to comprehend. At a time when most people never got more than 25 miles from home and people were being burnt for saying the world was round, how could priests of that day comprehend what our God given brain has figured out today. And now there are so many ideas out there that question the divinity of Jesus and the actions of the church plus the there was/is their persecution of women (yes the DaVinci Code but there are others). When I look at the actions of the church today-immorality and coverups-without regard for victims or community-I find blind faith and complete acceptance hard. What about the church's endorsement of Hitler during WWII? I know that priests are mortal but they wrote the Bible. Did you ever read Beowolf? A great story written about the deeds that great men did to be remembered. (The movie will not do, but get it translated into today's English) When the priests saved that story by writing it down, they made Grindel's (the monster Beowolf was to destroy) mother to be the mother of Cain. Beowolf believed in Valhalla and his gods so that touch had to have come from the priests. Just an example that you might want to take most written documents with a grain of thought. All are written with the latest theories but scientific ones are replaced as new theories that encompass new discoveries. All are opinions.

Answer 3

Evolution is the change in the ratio of alleles in a population from generation to generation. It means that certain traits get selected for/against or introduced/eliminated from a population (which is a group of animals of a single species that mate among each other). It is not a "belief" in the sense that gravity cannot be a "belief." It is something that scientists have observed time and again and is fact. The only real debate left is how evolution occurs (there are five means so far agreed upon, including natural selection). (The origin of life is not included in evolution.)

Humans (homo sapiens) evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzees (split off about 10 million years ago). The "proof" is in the fossil record, our DNA, geographic/geological evidence, etc. Email me if you want to learn more.

(I just read that guy's post about "it flies in the face of thermodynamics." There is nothing random about evolution and it adheres to any law you can name. Here's a site that might help if you want to read it: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptions.html#thermo
It's a little anti-creationist, but don't hold that against them. Biologists and other scientists get very antsy when people with no science education try to convince PhDs that the thing they have been studying for 20+ years is false with poor rationale and no proof.)

Answer 4

Evolution is a proven fact, based on the following two demonstrated existential statements:
- Variation happens. Due to radiation, chemical attack, or other insult, the genes transmitted to an offspring may differ from those of the parents.
- Natural selection happens. A particular genetic change may give the offspring some advantage in living and reproduction. Such genes tend to accumulate, at the expense of genes which give no such advantage.

Since both of these, the two essential elements of the theory, are demonstrated, the theory is proved. However, this proof does not, by itself, reveal the genetic history of any species -- it merely shows that there is one. For details, one must look to other evidence, of which there is an adequate supply. For a detailed account of the evolutionary history of life on earth, see reference.

Answer 5

The basic beleive of evolution is that things change in an environment, and replicate; and a variation that is most modern or the at that zenith of adaptation is the most successful and replicates the quickest, the fastest and the most.

The evolution of man, from mongkey to ape and ending with the homo.

Answer 6

Evolution is not a belief, but a well evidenced scientific study. The fossil record shows a progression of forms. The taxonomic classification based on anatomy was well confirmed by the independent analysis of genetic homology.

Answer 7

im not gonna even bother describing what we evolved form, but the proof (or rather evedence) is:
all animals of a specific genus look basicaly alike
all animals of a specific family hafe the same basic structure (4 appendages, ect)
the genetic symilarities between us and primates (~98% the same)
fosils of cro-magnon humanoids
fosils earlier humanoids

lots of other stuff worth mentioning that i cant recall off hand

Answer 8

its darwins theory of evolution everythink has evoloved by a slow and gradual process

Answer 9

The hypothesis of Evolution can be summed up in this: You and I and the rest of the universe are one huge accident which retains the "appearance" of order. It flies in the face of everything we know about the laws of thermodynamics and I personally think it's ridiculous.