Proof of evolution?

Question

Ok, this is hard to word the way I want, but here goes......

I understand the evolution theory, I do not believe it, but i understand the idea expressed. But what i do not understand is, an evolutionist is usually so because of the need of scientific fact, but where is the fact in evolution? I mean, how can an ape evolve into a human? Why are there no remains of an evolved ape....when it was more human-like....where are the bones or fossils of it? They have dinasour bones in museums, where are the more human-like, evolved ape REAL bones? ...where is it? I have heard the theory, seen the drawings, but there is nothing concrete to back it up. Wouldn't that make this whole theory alittle more scientific? Also, ever since we evolved into the human, why have we not evolved into anything in the 2,000 years of documented life?

Answer 1

What is more disturbing to me than the lack of proof is the attempts at out and out fruad to "prove" evolution. A short list of such fruads: Piltdown man: Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41 years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of age, and the teeth had been filed down!

Nebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig. (possibly an error but I doubt it.)

Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983
Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow

This is science? Perpetrating frauds only serves to cast more doubt on evolution, not convince people that it is so. Why would anyone believe anything said about a theory that needed bolstering by these means?

No one has claimed the $250,000 reward thay's been offered for empirical evidence for evolution.

Answer 2

Proof Of Evolution

Answer 3

"Edward J", Adam's Rib", & "babydoll", all gave very good answers. Mine consists mostly of links to supportive articles & evidence... However, perhaps it would be good to review the actual definitions of certain words, first:

evidence :
*your basis for belief or disbelief;
knowledge on which to base belief;
*an indication that makes something evident

substantiated:
*supported or established by evidence or proof

proof :
*"a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it"

prove :
*"establish the validity of something,
as by an example, explanation --or-- experiment"

It seems that some persons have an understanding of what constitutes actual evidence &/or proof, different from their actual definitions...
The articles listed below are full of evidence of Creation, (based on the dictionary definition of 'evidence'):

Humans---Just Higher Animals? :
- Who Are Humans?
- In the Image of God or Beast?
- Looking Up, Not Down, for Answers
http://watchtower.org/e/19980622/article_01.htm

Unraveling the Mystery of Your Genes :
- Genes, DNA, and You - Peering Into the Microscope
- What Is Behing the Mystery of Life?
- How DNA Replicates
- How Proteins Are Made
http://watchtower.org/e/19990908a/article_01.htm

Life A Product of Design :
- Copying Life's Marvelous Designs
- Learning From Designs in Nature
- The Great Designer Revealed
http://watchtower.org/e/20000122/article_01.htm

Animal Creation Magnifies Jehovah
- They Need No Human Help
- Winged Creatures Magnify Jehovah
- God Gives the Horse Mightiness
- Consider the Falcon and the Eagle
- Jehovah Disciplines Job
- Behemoth Glorifies God
- Leviathan Brings God Praise
- Job Makes a Retraction
http://watchtower.org/e/20060115a/article_01.htm

Cooperation---Vital To Life :
- The Role of Cooperation in Nature
- Why Cooperation Is Vital
- When Global Harmony Will Prevail
http://watchtower.org/e/20050908/article_01.htm

Another definition, this time for > theory:

*a belief that can guide behavior ;

*a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena;

*a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena...

Fraudulent fossil 'evidence' hardly constitutes true substantiation of the concept of Evolution.

Notice quotes from:

Newsweek:
“‘You could put all the fossils on the top of a single desk,’
said Elwyn Simons of Duke University.”*10

The New York Times:
“The known fossil remains of man’s ancestors would fit on a billiard table. That makes a poor platform from which to peer into the mists of the last few million years.”*11

Science Digest: “The remarkable fact is that all the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin! . . . Modern apes ... seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humans--of upright, naked, toolmaking, big-brained beings--is, if we are ... honest ..., an equally mysterious matter.”*12

I reitrate your question: "Where is the fact in evolution"?

A Nuclear Scientist Tells: "Why I Believe [Creation]"
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122a/article_01.htm

Answer 4

You are stating that there is no proof, when in fact there is proof. You ask, specifically, about the evolution of man. Do not think of it as a modern day chimp or other ape turning into a man. The idea is that the apes of today and man have a common ancestor in the immensely distant past.

The facts show that up until a few hundred thousand years ago, modern man did not exist. There are no fossils from earlier times. So, despite life existing on the planet for hundreds of millions of years, at some point man existed on the planet. Now either he evolved as a branch from earlier creatures, or he did not. If he did not, then something had to put him here as-is.

There ARE remains of evolved "apes" (i.e. ancestors of modern humans). See the following site: http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Paleoanthropology.html

If modern man was simply placed on the Earth as-is, then one would not expect a gradual change over time of the fossils found in the ground. The development of man can be traced over time from less developed homonids to more developed homonids. Brains get bigger, homonids stand more erect, and bipedalism takes over.

There are, you are correct, dinosaur bones in museums, and there are also mountains of homonid fossils to be seen. That's how we no homo habilis, australopithecenes, homo erectus, cro magnon man, neanderthal man, etc., existed in the distant past. We've found them.

2,000 years of documented life? First of all, it's only 2,000 years since Jesus - historical records go back thousands of years B.C. But even that is a drop in the bucket. Things evolve over hundreds of thousands and millions of years - not 2,000 or 5,000 years.

If the last 250,000 years can be a guide, if our descendants are still here in another 250,000 years, they will be a lot different than we are.

Answer 5

somewhat than provide you 1000 examples from one hundred distinctive fields of technological expertise, i'm going to easily provide you my own popular occasion. It definitively proves human/chimp common ancestry (btw in case you have a rebuttal to this i'd like to pay attention it). So in accordance to evolution, human beings and chimps shared an trouble-free ancestor approximately 6 million years in the past. So if this is genuine there ought to be similarities in our DNA and there are, yet there is one considerable distinction. they have 24 pairs of chromosomes, we've 23. you are able to now not basically lose a chromosome, the embryo would be non-obtainable. Deletion of a finished chromosome is deadly. So there are 2 opportunities: a million. A chromosome fusion occurred interior the human lineage AFTER the chop up from the hassle-free ancestor, leaving us with one much less pair, or 2. evolution is fake. So if we do have a fused chromosome we ought to continually have the skill to discover it. Chromosomes have markers on the top called teleomeres, yet as quickly as we've a fused chromosome we ought to continually have one chromosome with inactive teleomeres interior the middle the place they don't belong. If we don't discover it, evolution isn't genuine. seems that is human chromosome #2. that is obtainable to pinpoint the suitable fusion web site to interior of a dozen base pairs (out of three billion). Human chromosome #2 resulted interior the head to head fusion of two chromosomes that stay separate in different primates, and that they correspond directly to chimp chromosomes #12 and #12. the clarification for that's by way of fact they are arranged by utilising length, #a million being the biggest. so because it incredibly is it, definitive DNA information that we share an trouble-free ancestry with chimpanzees. Evolution is actuality.

Answer 6

Check out the link below. It has a pretty good timeline for the hominid fossil record, with pictures and explanations.

Human life has been documented for about 6,500 years, and there is ample evidence of evolution currently occuring. Alcohol tolerance, lactose tolerance, modern height and dentation, and many disease immunities have all developed within the past 10,000 years or so. Remember, evolution occurs over generations, not years. Considering that humans have roughly 20 years between generations, 2,000 years is nothing in the timescale of our evolution.

Answer 7

I'm sorry but you don't understand the theory of evolution.
Firstly we did not evolve from apes but a common ancestor.
Secondly,we have evolved over the last 2,000 years.Take a look at the life span of the average human.Yes I am aware that is partly to do with medicine but the fact is that people are living longer now than they were 100 years ago.

Answer 8

I think you think you know more then you actually do. they have the fossils you are asking about. They have found lots of them. Also, we didn't evolve from apes, we share a common ancestor. Lastly, we have continued to evolve, even in the last 2,000 years. But that is very little time in the evolutionary process, so there is very, very little changes in the last 2000 years.

Answer 9

If you want to find people who are doing research that shows how evolution isn't happening look up these names. Dr. Doug Axe & Ann Gauger. Both have peer reviewed articles and disprove the notion that there is no scientific work being done by creationist scientists. Also look up Ralph Seelke. he is watching for evolution in the E. Coli bacterium. As the time for them to rproduce is relatively short they can watch 6.64 generations per day. So far he has been able obseve 20'000 generations.

Answer 10

I think you need to get edumacted more, i have observed changes in butterflies, birds in my 50 yrs - and I'm pretty sure human life is documented further back than 2000 years ... still all of it is just a blip on the evolutionary scale, but there is evidence for which you seek....read The Future Of The Body, by Michael Murphy explorations into the further evolution of human nature