how can people say that evolution has never been observed?

Question

look around you!
let's see, the example i use most often is doorways. if you enter a house that is over 100 years old, the original doorways are much shorter than they are today because people were shorter then. evolution has resulted in a present day taller human.
take a look at germs - they evolve continuoulsy. you can't use antibiotics to kill certain germs because they have evolved so much that they are resistant to them.
there are many examples of small scale evolution in today's world, i just don't understand why some people easily dismiss it? is it because it doesn't fit into their religious views?

FISH: they can't evolve so drastically in such a short amount of time, be realistic!

look at it this way, if there was a god, wouldn't he immediately change those creatures so they could survive????

for those disputing my "doorway theory", the fact that we have superior diet and health, is in itself a form of evolution!

if wordman can agree that there is micro evolution, how is it so hard to belive that there is macro evolution? we obviously can't witness it because we are only on this planet for a short amount of time. just expand your horizons a bit, and it should become clear!

Answer 1

I'd say evolution is a proven theory and there's plenty of evidence to support it. Now, I still believe that there's a place for religion in the modern world since belief in a higher authority doesn't necessarily mean you need to dismiss science. There are those die-hard religious folk who refuse to bend, of course, the stalwarts of archaic writings so I wouldn't anticipate you being able to change their minds much like they cannot change yours.

The concept of God, I have no problem with so long as it doesn't interfer with modern scientific research and the overall progress of mankind. I have no desire to live in the dark ages or have my curiosity given a blanket biblical response in lieu of a scientifically enlightened answer. I have my own theory that religion was basically a creation of man meant to explain or rationalize that which primitive cultures were unable to explain beyond attributing an event or state of natural being as that of divine creation or intervention. I also imagine being cognitive creatures, the fear of death had a great deal to do with it as well. Unfortunately, religion has also been perversely used to start or justify wars, genocide and persecute early scientists if their teachings or theories went beyond a stated religion's belief. Thankfully, the spanish inquisition is pretty much behind us these days, although the muslim extremists are doing a pretty fair job of again taking a decent concept and welding it as a deadly sword. Silencing your critics is not what enlightenment is about, whether it be religion or science.

On a last note, Pope John Paul once admitted evolution was likely to be true and some of our most brillant scientists in the world also believe in God. You see, among the tolerant and wise, there is room for both to live together in harmory....

Answer 2

Viruses are a good place to look for evolution because they go through millions of generation very quickly. And yes there is variation from generation to generation but a virus has never become a higher form of life they have never move up to the status of say a bacteria. If evolution can't do that for a virus in a million generations how is it that after the great extension event (asteroid strike if you will) did a rodent like creature evolve into the Woolly Mammoth after just as many as a few thousand generations? You evolution theory needs a lot of work to become a scientific law.... Jim

Answer 3

Please don't use increasing height of humans over the past few hundred years as evidence of evolution. That has virtually nothing to do with it.

The increasing height of humanity is almost entirely due to improvements in nutrition. If you look at when height increases in different cultures around the world, it is always found at the same time as an improvement in their diet.

I entirely believe in evolution, but your first example of "evidence" for it is really completely unrelated.

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Superior diet and health are not caused by evolution. They are caused by technology. Evolution and technological advancement are not the same thing.

Evolution is caused by one segment of the population having a greater number of children than a different segment of the population. If tall people had children while short people did not, then we could say that the height increase is caused by evolution. Instead, what we see is that tall people have taller children and short people also have taller children.

If evolution was causing the height increase, the percentage of people with "tall" genes in the population would be increasing while the percentage of people with "short" genes would be decreasing. In reality, the percentage isn't changing, which proves that the increase in height is NOT due to evolution.

Answer 4

The answer is in your question. You can have people who are well versed in evolutionary theory on either side, Religious, not religious. The problem is, some people who support evolution don't have a very good grasp of it.

For example, your little story about shorter doorways? I'm not so sure that's valid. From what we know about natural selection as the mechanism for evolution, it is highly improbable that people are getting taller within 100 years. It's absurd. Evolution takes place over hundreds and thousands of generations, not 3.

Answer 5

The easiest thing to experiment on evolution are fruit flies. They die and reproduce quickly. If anyone has taken college biology they would know why fruit flies are great for observing evolution on an extremely minuscule scale because these living creatures can change and adapt in a matter of months or years. that should give people an idea on how evolution works- by natural selection for the most part.

Answer 6

you purchased some extremely exciting solutions on your question. i ought to in no way scream at you-have self assurance me on that. enable's imagine about this logically. the position did all of it initiate? the position did count come from? became there no longer some thing and then there became some thing? Does that comply with the guidelines of physics? Or do we ought to droop perception in organic guidelines as a fashion to describe the starting up of each and every thing? enable's pretend that count miraculously looked. ok, so now we wait a lengthy time period longer and a one celled organism looks (back miraculously). Then what? Multi-celled organisms miraculously seem? Hmmm. no longer some thing in the fossil record helps that. Now, we are in difficulty. All we see in the fossil record are alterations. Why? assume, blue eyed human beings were genetically susceptible. they does no longer stay to reproduce, ought to they? So the blue eyed human beings ought to stop to exist. So it is going with animals. What we do not see in the fossil record is a go between 2 species, because they in no way existed.

Answer 7

There is no such thing as macro evolution which is one species changing in to another species... its never been observed nor will it ever be observed. Now there is what is called micro evolution which is subtle changes within a species, totally different than macro evolution. Your germ example is an example of micro evolution at best... a germ is still a germ. ~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO ALL TRUTH WHICH IS FOUND ONLY IN CHRIST JESUS THE LORD~

Answer 8

Evolution is seen every Sunday.
1. You loose 1000 years of evolution when entering a church on Sunday
2. You gain 500 years of evolution when leaving church on Sunday.

Sounds kind of backwards? Try a Baptist chuch, you'll find out :0)

Answer 9

The same way people say all the other ******** in the world

god exists
everyone is equal
us army isnt in iraq for oil
angelina jolie is sexy
all water tastes the same
im so depressed
and the list goes on...

Answer 10

The religiously infected mostly parrot what their handlers tell them, without ever thinking about what it is they are being spoon fed. Case in point, look at how many theistically infected types go around saying how atheism is a religion, which is incorrect. Same goes for evolution, they hear or read something one of their fellow religious loons tells the and believe it without question.