If you doubt or disbelieve evolution, would witnessing it convince you?

Question

The main argument I see against evolution seems to be that nobody can witness it. Because it takes place SLOWLY, over MILLIONS of years, those who argue against it know they've got us over a barrel in this regard.

But what if WE mutated human genes and created a more adaptable human? Let's say a male with a very large head and a brain that could think ten times faster than a normal human. Wouldn't this person have a huge advantage in our world, and couldn't this persons offspring have potentially huge brains? By virtue of their vastly increased intelligence wouldn't these big brained people be more successful, and thus more desirable as partners? How long would it be before the last small brained human child was born?

We know nature can cause favorable mutations - infrequently, yes, but it does happen. Enough tiny changes over millions of years and species change. They EVOLVE.

Someday, we will do this ourselves, and you will have the proof you want. Then what will you deny?

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The ENVIRONMENT chooses. Species don't choose to evolve. Mutations happen randomly, and they are SELECTED FOR if they bestow a survival advantage. Prehensile tails are a good example.

Yes, simply having a larger head wouldn't denote a new species, but it is the accumulation of many tiny changes that would.

How about a larger head, a few extra fingers, no hair, vestigial legs, the ability to vocalize high frequencies in a digital manner, eyes that could see into the em spectrum and ears that could hear in it? Those who get my drift will get what I'm describing.

Answer 1

Evolution *can* be witnessed. The only difficulty is that in order to have it take place within a short timeframe, you have to stick to small critters with short lifetimes and large populations. Which is why biologists stick to bacteria, nematodes, fruit flies and the like.

The antis, of course, want to see fish mutate into camels, dogs into cats and other ridiculous ideas that belong in stage magic rather than science. That's presumably how they expect it to work.

But great evolutionary steps have taken place within the last century: P.Notatum was mutated to make it produce 1,000x more penicillin, and bacteria that eat TNT and Nylon have emerged from nowhere. Hosts of disease-causing pathogens have evolved to be insensitive to antibiotics, and insects to be resistant to insecticide.

Various specific evolutionary events have been observed at a molecular level in the lab, where individual mutations have benefited bugs by enabling them to digest new foodstuffs, with the specific genetic changes carefully analysed.

The antis, when forced to accept these things, whine about 'micro-evolution', while claiming that the sort of things they demand (cats into dogs etc.) can't happen. They are unable to see that many, many micros make a macro: after 10,000 small mutations any animal may be pretty different from its ancestors - it just takes millions of years to accumulate all that, and no-one can stuff an entire higher animal species into a lab and wait millions of years for the result.

Happily, for those with eyes to see, the evidence that this happens is all around and incontrovertible. Only ignorance, stupidity, misinformation and wickedness can avoid it.

CD

Answer 2

HA ! Kinda like 2million fly's eat garbage, so it must be the right thing to eat. LOL If you look in the Bible you will see God's real followers were always in the minority on earth. So would that not hold true for them too? Noah, Israelite, Early Christian Congregation etc. We read the Bible a lot and study it and people are always challenging our belief , therefore it makes us study and take into account what they says and prove to yourself from the Bible if it is correct or not. Even though many post or say things about us or trying to prove us wrong , it in fact makes us look into it more and prove our understanding. I have spoke to MANY, from most religions, and not a few "Scholars" and so far after over 40 years, not one of those others have disproved a single thing , so , yes I have no doubt. How about you?

Answer 3

Well, I would argue that large-headedness wouldn't be a very good example, as it wouldn't be all that favorable at this point (our society discourages tricking as many women as possible into bed with you now, and there would be extreme prejudice to those who were notably different that violated this taboo), I doubt it would really help convince them... They can see it every year if they want with flu shots, and they choose to ignore it because it isn't a significant enough change for them when bacteria of viruses change completely. The results they claim couldn't happen are going from other mammals to man, most seem not to have problems with people growing different and not speciating. (They do, after all, believe homo erectus skeletons and so forth were still human skeletons, just somehow not a species different from homo sapiens...)

Answer 4

Well, him ah, maybe. However I do not doubt evolution however I do not believe in it as an absolute. I believe that evolution is proof that God is the creator. Evolution his act of continuing to create. I do doubt that one species develops into another as well as single cell organisms becoming complex multicellular organisms. I have heard of colonies of bacteria acted together and moving from one place to another as proof of single cells becoming complex. but humans, animals and insects do the same when they migrate to other places for food or to meet other needs. It is just a community of alike lifeforms moving together.

Answer 5

Not a lot of people deny evolution, they deny the part where we came from apes.

Evolution is present all around us, we adapt to our surroundings in order to survive.

If people had proof that Martians existed or that God is real, they would still deny. It is in human nature. Seeing is not always believing.

Answer 6

According to your scenario these traits could pose an advantage. They may even be hereditary. The species itself may even change to permanently carry this new trait assuming that all 'others' just died out. What I don't see is a new 'species'. Even your scenario still calls them 'human'. Guess I wouldn't be convinced. Sorry.

Cheers :-)

Answer 7

And yet creation is all around and we witness it everyday but people still don't believe. It has been said that evolution is a religion because you have to have faith to believe it. Faith? Why would an established science need faith? Because evolution isn't science, it requires faith to jump over the unexplainable questions that evolutionists find uncomfortable.
Go to the natural history museum today and you will not find the fossils to support evolution.

Answer 8

1) A larger brain doesn't necessarily mean more intelligence.
2) The doubters of evolution will just say that this was not nature at work - just humans. (And they'd be right.)

Answer 9

Except evolution happens by RANDOM mutation followed by Natural Selection. Scientists doing their gene-splicing thing is a whole different thing.

Answer 10

Well the main argument against evolution is that it is a theory and not that it is happening slowly. In fact it is not happening at all.