Why do some think that it make more sense that we are all a product of evolution?

Question

There is not a shred of evidence to back up evolution, if i am wrong please prove it to me. I dont want opinions I would like to hear facts and sources.

where are these mountains of evidence thattt you speak of, evolution is at best a theory that has never been proven, accepting a theory doesnt make it a fact

let me clarify, i agree that there are changes inside of a species, but how can you prove that my anscestors were single celled organisms

Answer 1

Evolution gives them an excuse for being stupid; apes as ancestors. No way!! Sludge and slime, fish crawls and becomes a dinosaur, turns into a bird, turns into a monkey, grabs a stick as a tool and becomes a man!!

Takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution that it does to know that I am a child of God, created in his image.

Answer 2

Visit any museum of science and history. They can spell it out in far better detail than anyone could achieve here.

The wording of your question indicates that you have ignored all of the evidence presented to you thus far so I don't know what else you would need. Before you ask that though, you should probably ask yourself, "What scientifically verifiable evidence is there for *insert which creation story you believe here*?" Perform repeated experiments showing the hand of a creator with results that indicate such. Apply Occam's Razor to ensure your postulation of a creator is truly the simplest explanation, instead of fiating God as most creationists do. Then prove the existence of said creator through a similar method.

Once you are done with that, read the case for evolution stated pretty thoroughly here:

http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoEvidence.html

Answer 3

A very famous and easy to understand example of evolution is the Peppered Moths in England. Read the first paragraph of this Wikipedia article (more if you are interested, obviously) and you will truly understand what evolution is. It isn't monkeys turning into men any more than Christianity is an invisible man in the sky.

Answer 4

It isn't some, nearly all of the educated people in the world understand and accept evolution. It only exists as a debate in Christian churches and Sunday Schools. There is a great deal of evidence, but if you haven't understood it thus far, it seems a futile venture. Try talkorigins.com or a science book. You will need a base of knowledge before anything we say makes sense.

Answer 5

You don't fully understand what a theory is. There is plenty of evidence for evolution. Also, can you come up with a mechanism that would stop lots of little changes from adding up to more complex changes?

Answer 6

"There is not a shred of evidence to back up evolution"

It takes IMMENSE ignorance to make a claim like this. The Theory of Evolution is one of THE most well-understood, well-established, and well-evidence scientific theories we've got. It's on par with our knowledge of GRAVITY, my friend.

Here's a starting point--to list ALL of the proof of evolution would take more than a lifetime (there are literally millions of bits of evidence):

29 Evidences for Macroevolution (emphasis on "macro," since most creationists now accept micro but not macro, you having stated yourself as one of them in your "additional details" (even though they're the exact same process, just with different time scales)): http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

P.S. That nonsense about "evolution is just a theory" is ridiculous. "Theory" has a very different meaning in science than "a speculative guess" in its colloquial usage. You know what else is "just a theory," by your logic? GRAVITY.

A scientific theory is a collection of facts. Evolution is both a fact and a theory: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

Answer 7

The problem with you folks is that we can give you mountain and mountains of evidence but you still come up with " but that don't prove nothing"...
"but God did it"
"but that don't make sense"

No sense in trying to make you see the light (pun intented)

* Edit: dude, you just proved my point. You have all these people giving you websites where you can find evidence, yet you cling to your delusion. We really can't do anything more for you. Either you want knowledge or you don't.

Answer 8

Jimmy, evolution is a massive subject.

If you desire to understand evolution and see the evidence start here:

talkorigins.org

Other than that take some courses are your local university. I have taken over a dozen credit hours of evolution and molecular biology; this isn't some grandious conspiracy, it is fact.

Your own ignorance is not evidence for or against evolution's validity.

Answer 9

There is evidence to back up the theory like what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, look it up..
There are thousands of pieces of living evidence about, animals adapt to their environment if that means colour of the fur etc. Like the squirrel that can glide because when there was once a thick canopy there is now less, so it can glide from tree to tree

Answer 10

oh dear, have you been locked away somewhere?
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/topicbrowse2.php?topic_id=46
do you really think that thousands of decent, honest and upright scientists in the life sciences are part of some evil conspiracy. do you think that they would waste their time on something that had no substance, something not viable. evolution is a theory like gravity is a theory, like relativity is a theory. it has been tested and proved time and time again. and there's mountains of evidence if you bothered to really look.

Answer 11

Because we do vary over time.

Evolution is the change in allelle frequencies in a population over time.
The frequency for the blond haired blue eyed allelles in the US population has changed in MY lifetime....why not believe it works elsewhere?

What definition of evolution are you using that there is no evidence for?

By the way, for a list of creationist claims and why each claim is wrong, try this website:
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

If your claim of no evidence withstands that list, we can talk.