Is there any true proof for evolution?

Question

I am not saying that I believe in creationism or evolution I just want to know if any of you have found anything that is true evidence of evolution?
The fact that i am stating this question does not imply in any way that I believe in creation or God at all I just want to know what you guys think.

Answer 1

You are misunderstanding evolution, like so many people. Evolution is not a theory about where we came from. Evolution is a theory about how life works.

Evolution:
Small changes happen naturally during the regular reproductive process of animals.

Those small changes that are better adapt to surviving will be spread amoung the next generation.

Those features which are not as good will die out or take the backseat.

See, no-one is saying we came from monkeys, or a drop of water. That comes in later.
If you take evolution, and project it back millions of years, it would indicate we are related to monkeys. However, if you believe we were created sometime between then, evoultion does not stop that. It is simply the process that is happening now.

Read Darwin. His birds on the island are incredible proof. Or, if you want more easy to understand evidence, look at humans. We are getting taller, and taller.

In order to relate creationism to evolution, you have to make a few assumptions
1) Evolution is happening (pretty much proven)
2) Evolution has been happening for millions of years
Therefor, Humans have been evolving for millions of years.


What you, and many of the religious right keep putting into doubt is the idea that Evoulition has not been happening for millions of years. That is an entirely different statement. Evolution is proven though.

Answer 2

http://www.youtube.com/v/fZ90NiHNxmA
There’s a little video I found explaining it. What kind of proof do you need diseases evolve. There are actually some diseases that are caused by evolution. Because they were natural defenses built into the body to battle disease and some of them are still around. That would be the one category you can find definitive proof in. Or if you just want something small to think over. We think the dolphin’s ancestor was a land animal that went back to the sea. We think this because when the dolphin is in the womb it slowly starts growing a limb but then it retrieves back. Which is an interesting theory which would explain why they are mammals living in the ocean. Some whales have unused leg tissue too. Sorry I didn’t give you many links to sources I don’t have the time. But I wanted to give you a little something and not just say go read a book. Why did you ask this in the religion section? I guess you were hoping for the atheists to chime in haha.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Gs1zeWWIm5M

Answer 3

Evolution is happening constantly. You have to wait a while to see big changes (by a while, I mean millions of years, and by big changes, I mean dinosaurs to people). But it's exactly the same process as when bacteria become immune to antibiotics.

What many people still fail to grasp is that our concept of a "species" is simply a convenient way to group plants and animals; there is nothing absolute about it. That's why it's hard to find "evidence" showing how one "species" evolves into another.

Every living thing on earth has parents, and those that live long enough will have offspring. The offspring will be a little bit different than the parents. That's all Evolution ever claimed. Do you really need someone to show you proof of that?

Answer 4

Genetics have shown that humans and apes/monkeys share common ancestory (many chromosome pairs match). It's a common misconception that humans evolved from monkeys. The fact is that they evolved alongside of each other.

The fossil record has produced millions of pieces of evidence to support evolution as fact.

There have been hundreds of witnessed occurences of evolution; from bacteria evolving to be resistant to antibiotics, all the way up to finches in the Galapogos Islands evolving their beak structures to help them find food in their environment.

Transitional fossils prove what many like to call "macro-evolution". This term is a misnomer, and a way for creationists to play games of semantics. Evolutionary change is evidence of evolution...regardless of its magnitude.

Answer 5

Yes. The fossil record. Genetic evidence. Retrovirues. Those consist of millions and millions of pieces of evidence for evolutlon. There are dozens of scientifc journals devoted to evolution, it's evidence, and it's uses. Do you really think scientists would have spent the last 150 years working on something with no evidence?

Answer 6

The best proof for evoluation is the 1968 movie, Planet of the Apes.

You might think I am joking, and of course I am, but only in a way, because I believe that it might actually be true. If you do not believe me, check out the movie for yourself and see how far superior the proof that humans came from apes is in that movie than any of the proofs presented in the textbooks.

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Answer 7

Microbes have been observed to evolve in laboratory experiments. The mechanisms can explain much of the fossil record. Is this proof beyond a shadow of a doubt? No. Is is rock solid? Yes.

Answer 8

If you mean studies over long periods of time of every kind showing support for it, then yes. If you mean evidence (fossils) found in nature, then yes.

People don't understand that science simply never says something is a fact. A well tested scientific theory is as factual as we get. People apply the normal use of the word "theory" to a scientific theory to discredit it.

Answer 9

Yes, tremendous proof. Have you ever read a Science or History book? Nearly every book contains the evolutionary chart or information about how evolution ties into modern day behavior and other things. The is more than enough proof for evoultion that I don't know how people even deny it.

Especially when it is taught in schools.

Answer 10

Yes, there are many scientific observations that support the theory of evolution.