Can Evolution be proven? Has it ever been proven?

Question

If you believe that evolution can be proven or has ever been proven, please give a valid answer based on scientific evidence.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Just the opposite...evolution has been proven scientifically false over and over!!! Just a few of those cases include.
1) The LAW of biogenesis
2) The 1st LAW of Thermodynamics
3) The 2nd LAW of Thermodynamics
4) The FACT that LIVING coelacanth fish have been caught as recently as 1938 (This is an 'index fossil' that dates it's sedimentary layer between 70,000,000 and 4000,00,000 years old according to evolution)
5) The FACT that the 'evolutionary' geological column DOES NOT exist throughout the ENTIRE world.
6) The FACT that almost 400 million years of the 600 million years of 'evolutionary geological column' is missing from the Palo Duro Canyon. Where was this part of Texas during those 400 MILLION YEARS????
7) The FACT that there was not as much meteoritic dust on the moon as should have been there if the earth and moon were anywhere near as old as evolutionist purpose.
8) The FACT that human relics have been found in sedimentary layers dated millions of years older than when 'humans' evolved according to the evolutionary THEORY!
9) The FACT that acquired characteristics cannot be inherited.
10) The FACT that even though bacteria are low on the evolution column of 'life' they posses some of the most sophisticated 'motors' that can not be reproduced even today with all of our advanced technologies.
11) The FACT that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly after all of the caterpillars internal organs have been dissolved. Which 'evolved' first...the caterpillar or the butterfly.
12) The FACT that there are NO crossover species.
13) The FACT that if you show ANY youngster pictures of several different breeds of dogs they will tell you they are DOGS...nothing new over time, still dogs and they will ALWAYS be dogs. MICROevolution IS NOT an example of MACROevolution.
14) The FACT that 'blind tests' when done on rock dating (for example carbon-14 dating) comes out to DISPROVE the 'old age' of the rocks and usually just IS NOT DONE AT ALL!

Answer 2

No, evolution cannot be proven in the mathematical sense. If you think so, you don't understand how science works. Scientists create models (like evolution by natural selection) to explain observations. The models work to explain the phenomenon or they don't. If they don't, they are revised or pitched. If they do, that doesn't mean they are proven fact. They are just provisionally accepted for the time being. Even our most fundamental laws of physics are provisional. Newtonian mechanics has been replaced by quantum mechanics and relativity. So might evolution by replaced--but just as modern physics includes the phenomena explained by classical physics, so would any new theory of biological origins have to include the phenomena explained by evolution.

Moral of the story. Science can't prove anything. This is why some crank can offer $10 million to anyone who can prove that evolution is fact. The best answer to this claim was to offer a like sum to anyone who can prove that the universe is not the creation of a flying spaghetti monster. Enough said.

Answer 3

Evolution, as a scientific term, has been proven. It is a change in a species over time. It has been proven that changes happen within a gene pool over time for various reasons. This has been done through observation and experimentation. The theory that evolution is a cause of the species in the world is also supported. As you may or may not know, a theory can not be proven, since it is a scientific theory. Theories by their nature can't be proven since they are made up of proven laws. But it is supported by these proven laws.

Answer 4

The process of evolution is an undeniable fact. For the most obvious proof look at bateria and a virus.
By definition evolution is the change in a population's inherited traits from generation to generation. These traits are encoded as genes that are copied and passed on to offspring during reproduction. Mutations and other random changes in these genes can produce new or altered traits, resulting in inheritable differences (genetic variation) between organisms. Evolution occurs when these differences become more common or rare in a population. This either happens through natural selection, which is caused by differences in the reproductive value of the traits, or randomly through genetic drift.

Answer 5

creationists like to think they can prove evolution wrong but they can't. nearly all of the so called "facts" they use are old and outdated and have been proven wrong by scientists; creationists live in the past. yes scientists get things wrong, but they admit it and seek to improve as there is this great little thing called the scientific process and the fact that new research has to be reproducible. evolution was not "created" over night. creationists don't do this, they argue their point as loud as possible without listening to the other side. also, a theory in science is not the same as the common usage of theory. anyone who says that evolution does not exist because it is a theory does not believe in gravity using their logic. anyway, creationists and the like disprove the notion of intelligent design simply by existing as an 'intelligent designer' wouldn't have created something so stupid.

Answer 6

Umm, well, there must be thousands and thousands of bones and skeletons, carbon dating,etc. devoted to the subject. It makes perfect sense to me. It has even happened in human history. Were housecats always that size? No, they were domesticated, so they adapted to the lifestyle. Amphibians are another example. Wisdom teeth. We have them removed all the time. Why? Because we dont need them. They come from when our mouths and heads were bigger(neanderthals)Tons of things in nature and science prove that evolution existed. Go look it up. Go to the museum, surely you have heard of museums, haven't you? And I'm sorry, but a book (bible)written by men and translated through many different languages, over a couple thousand years, edited and tweaked here and there to fit selfish purposes for men, by men, DOES NOT prove that evolution didn't exist. Sorry.

Answer 7

It depends of your definition of proven. Reproduced identically -- can't be done. Unbroken fossil chain -- can't be done.

On the other hand, reasonable demonstrations beyond most rational doubt are common place. The phylogenetic tree based on anatomy corresponds incredibly well with molecular homology. Numerous mechanisms at the molecular level have been characterized.