Is evolution science?

Question

If it cannot be observed, repeated, verified or subject to experimentation, then it is not scientific. Has Evolution ever been observed, repeated, verified or has an experiment ever been performed regarding it.

Answer 1

No. We are taught that natural selection=Evolution. They are not at all the same thing. Evolution requires the addition of information to form a whole knew animal that is reproduceable--this has NEVER happened--what we're taught about monkey to man is ALL speculation! Natural selection is a loss of information. This we do observe & have verified. Natural selection is science, Evolution not!

Evolution is merely a presupposition about origins that has never been observed, or subject to repeated experimentation so cannot be verified.
However, Creation is also a presupposition. It's just that the scientific facts we do know fit better with a Creation model than an Evolutionary model--even from a purely intellectual, logical point of view. It's out of rebellion & the human nature to not want to be responsible to a Creator that scientists hold on to Evolution.

Answer 2

Biologists define evolution as a change in the gene pool of a population over time. One example is insects developing a resistance to pesticides over the period of a few years. Even most Creationists recognize that evolution at this level is a fact. What they don't appreciate is that this rate of evolution is all that is required to produce the diversity of all living things from a common ancestor.

The origin of new species by evolution has also been observed, both in the laboratory and in the wild.

Even without these direct observations, it would be wrong to say that evolution hasn't been observed. Evidence isn't limited to seeing something happen before your eyes. Evolution makes predictions about what we would expect to see in the fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetic sequences, geographical distribution of species, etc., and these predictions have been verified many times over. The number of observations supporting evolution is overwhelming.

What hasn't been observed is one animal abruptly changing into a radically different one, such as a frog changing into a cow. This is not a problem for evolution because evolution doesn't propose occurrences even remotely like that. In fact, if we ever observed a frog turn into a cow, it would be very strong evidence against evolution.

Answer 3

If one day is to God what a thousand years is to man, then who says that evolution didn't happen?

Why just a thousand years, He is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, if God can be all of this in One Being, what says that a blink of an eye to us cannot be ten thousand years to God, if He wills it so? We have to learn, not Him.

Adam lived to almost a thousand years old. Before Adam took a bite of the forbidden tree in Eden, he was an eternal being, God told him, if Adam ate from that tree, he would surely die.

He died. And men have been dying ever since. We were supposed to be eternal beings like the angels. So our understanding can grow, but only to realize the Glory of God is far more than we can ever anticipate.

Yes, evolution is a science, but the only thing it can accomplish is to explain how God made creation, nothing more.

Answer 4

To answer your primary question quite literally, no. Evolution is not science, it is a process. To answer the question to which you apparently allude, evolution has been observed, is repeated continuously, has been clearly verified by hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and scientists and has been the well documented subject of experimentation since 1470.
Have a nice day.

Answer 5

Evolution has made tens of thousands of verified predictions and retrodictions. It is one of the most verified theories in all of science.

Due to lack of time and space I can't list all these predictions and retrodictions here of course. But I will give a typical one.

We observed Humans have a point mutation which broke our Vitamin C pathway, which is why we need to eat fruit. It was observed that Gorillas also need to eat fruit. It was further observed that Gorillas had the exact same point mutation. The odds of the same exact point mutation occurring in the exact same place is huge unless it occurred in a common ancestor. Therefore one can retrodict that both species of Chimps would have the exact same point mutation and they indeed do.

It turns out that this point mutation is only found in primates. No other mammal is known to have it. There are some other mammals with broken Vitamin C pathways but the breakage is different again as evolution would retrodict.

Of course creationists will ignore everyone of these predictions and retrodictions and dishonestly pretend to themselves they do not exist. And of course most creationists do not have any clue at all as to what evolution is or how it works. They have learned lies and refuse to learn the real truth.

Answer 6

All the universities in the world would tell you yes. And that is why they teach it as such.

Yes, evolution can be observed in the lab in bacteria and fruit flies. It won't always be repeated the same way because it relies to a point on a random mutation. Yes, it can make predictions - like Tiktolik, or the merging of human chromosones to make chromosone #2.

There are thousands of depts teaching it and doing active research. There are hundreds of academic journals that explain that research and tell you how to replicate it.

Answer 7

That is a good question deserving of better response than some flippant replies. It should be asked differently though.
I would suggest , "Is evolution fact, theory or Hypothesis?"
Einstein's works are known as his Theory of General relativity. His theories are instrumental in physics and nuclear energy breakthroughs. They are still theories and are not necessarily fact. They are explanations for invisible things that allow predictable results. This earns them the rank of theory not fact. It is science though so I say the question of evolution being science is yes, just not necessarily scientific fact.

Answer 8

When it is not science it is very bad. Evolution the religion is pretty serious. Many Christians are actually practicing evolutionists. You know, capital punishment, why help someone who can only blame them selves for their trouble, blocking vaccines for sexually transmitted disease and so on. It is not consistent with Jesus' teachings but very popular with Christians today.

Religion of evolution is a dead-end, evolutionally speaking. The science is true science in that it predicts events and models behavior of natural processes. I do not think it is very deep and will not widen too much more.

I think man is still changing but blunt external forces do not act on man as weather acts on a bug. People are the big force acting on people, mostly by sexual selection. So it remains very spiritual and God is right there all the time.

Blessings...

Answer 9

Actually, you're right, as each are theories, on the grounds that neither may also be confirmed. However, if you're a devout character, then you definately generally don't agree that Creationism is a conception, and if you're a scientist then you may also consider that Evolutionism is extra reality than conception. When I used to be in prime university and university, I used to be additionally taught that Evolutionism is right, however I used to be taught in church that Creationism is right. I wrestled with this for decades. I would see truths and inconsistencies with each, however felt confused to feel one or the opposite. Creationism pretty much states that a larger intelligence, "God" if you are going to or any other larger being, set the universe in movement and controls it is motion and position. Evolutionism pretty much states that the universe in these days is a effect of an extended sequence of parties, opening with the primary occasion, the "giant bang", after which one occasion influences the following. Small alterations alongside the way in which adjust the direction of historical past. The essential hindrance that I have with each theories is that this: "What got here earlier than?" With Creationism, who or what created the Creator? With Evolutionism, what or who prompted the Big Bang? In the top, you ought to make a decision for your self what you feel, without difficulty on the grounds that mankind isn't as clever because it jointly thinks that it's, and without difficulty does now not have ample know-how to make a decision both manner. The solutions are available in the market, however we don't have all of them. For myself, I'm content material with simply now not realizing, till I have the cast proof to end up one conception over the opposite. All my existence, the solar has risen daily, and set each night time - time marches on. I do not rather love to consider of matters as "proper" or "unsuitable", now not even "well" or "unhealthy", however as optimistic or bad offerings. You could make each types of offerings, and so they have an impact on each you and the ones round you. You can pick to have an effect on undoubtedly, or have an effect on negatively. In my opinion, this influences our every day lives greater than some thing, and could be real regardless of which conception you believed. That's well ample for me. :-) Hope I helped. Live good, my pal.

Answer 10

It can be observed, repeated, verified and experimented on. Just talk to someone with the AIDS virus, they will tell you that there disease keeps evolving to all the new medicine the doctors give them.