who believes in evolution?

Question

i'm sure this question has been asked a thousand times over but here it is again. i'm not a religious person, i like to think of myself as logical and analytical and logic would seem to disprove evolution fairly easily.
How did life come from a rock? How did a bird come from a lizard? Why don't we see birds come from lizards today? Why are there no transitional fossils in our museums today? Why have we never observed beneficial mutations? Where did the information code in DNA come from? Where did the language convention that interprets DNA come from?How can we explain the random development of the human eye, reproductive system, digestive tract, brain, heart and lungs? What about the subconscious mind? What about love, morality, ethics, and emotions? Can these things really evolve gradually and randomly over time?
Try as i might, i cannot reason how DNA could evolve from a random pool of elements, and if DNA was known then, would Darwin's theory ever have been?

ok, so where's the proof, please provide yours and i'll provide mine. first, spontaneous generation has been proven to be impossible, yet this is what evolution tells us. no mutation has ever proven to be beneficial, or as being passed onto offspring, everything has purpose, the sun relates to the trees no differently than water nurishes them. are we to accept that all this happened by chance? chaos out of nothing doesn't make sense. for example name one experiment of any kind were a living creature (single celled or not) was created from inorgainc material? what created the big bang? nothing? seems impossible doesn't it.

ok harie, so tell me how the first living organism was formed, or tell me why the first bird developed a nub that would eventually over millions of years turn into a wing, we'd have to assume the wing didn't form overnight, so what was the purpose of the nub? my questions may not make sense to you b/c your too feeble minded to think outside of yourself. evoltuion-and many scientists agree-makes no sense w/o some intelligent help. how did the DNA code happen randomly by chance over many years, there's more info in one cell in your body harie than in all volumes of the encyclopedia, this happen by chance, for no reason, other than a lighting bolt, hit a elemntal pool, why doesn't this occur readily then, lighting still strikes, the elements still exist, so why can't anyone recreate somethign that happened strictly by chance. harie you come off as one of the ppl who would've sworn the world was flat.

lots of conjecture but not one bit of proof, someone, anyone proivde one credible link and you'll make me a believer. see i don't pretend to know everything, but i can question anything. so please, where's the proof?

glad to see the topic generatd such buzz, and i'm looking forward to looking thru all your answers so i can dissect them and see if there is any validity, but noone has provided any proof.

Answer 1

I believe in a theory called "Intelligent Design". It acknowledges evolution but that things were formed with the help of God. I like to look at the Atlas Moth as proof. If you find a good picture of one on the Internet, you will see that the tips of it's wings look like snakes. Now this moth would make a great meal for a bird but a birds don't bother it because they see something that could make a meal out of them, the snakes.
I just can't imagine trial and error making those images of snakes on the moth's wings and I can't believe that the moth used will power to put snakes on it's wings either.
Another example I like to use is fruit. Fruit has a seed inside of it that is ingested and then pooped out by animals. This helps to spread the seeds around and helps to make the species of plants continue to thrive in other areas. The poop even provides fertilizer for the plant seed. How would a plant figure all that out?

Answer 2

Life never came from a rock. Never, ever, ever.

But seriously. Think about this: you are made up of cells, right? Well what are they made of? Atoms and molecules. Now, we know atoms and molecules by themselves aren't alive. But if they come together at the right time and the right amount, they work together and therefore we are alive.

So really it doesn't seem illogical that however the world was created these said molecules and atoms would be there too, and all it took was the right timing to form a cell, which is a bacterium. Cells come from cells, so this bacterium made more bacteria. Then, new species were formed from mutations. A mutation is basically when something unexpected happens and the cells are different than normal. This happened, and new species slowly formed. Also, the species had to adapt to their environment, and if the species split into groups in different environments they would probably adapt. So, organisms had 2 cells, 3 cells, 4 cells, and more and more, until we have what we have today.

And yes, there are transitional animals and scientists study them. Such as a type of "bird" that had sharp teeth and other reptile-like traits unlike a bird, but had wings and a beak.

And slowly (I mean slowly, like millions of years) humans came from primates. (And NOT Neanderthals, because they came about the same time as early humans.)

Why we haven't observed beneficial mutations? The answer is environment. If the environment drastically changed we wouldn't be suited for it any more and the mutations we thought previously were unneeded and bad would actually be very helpful and thus a new species would be formed.

Subconscious? Well, remember there are many parts of the brain we don't use.

It's not exactly random, it's just that there's some kind of pattern that scientists haven't figured out yet...

And nothing is truly random, because everything happens for a reason and everything has a pattern, however vast and strange.

Answer 3

Sadly, yes. I do not understand how they can handle the cognitive dissonance. You are not well-educated because you do not recognize that theory is the highest level in science. It's not a guess. It is ignorant to say "JUST a theory". The common ancestor of all apes (including humans and chimps) is a monkey and that can be proven to your satisfaction. It does not depend on the theory of evolution. It's a fact. Theories do not have proof which only applies in mathematics. Theories have evidence. There is no evidence of a god of any kind. Theories are falsifiable. That's a feature, not a bug. If evidence is produced that indicates another theory or this one needs modification, then we learned something and are thankful for it. Religion does not have that feature. And it is requred. So creation by a god is not capable of being a theory. Since the discovery of mitochodrial DNA ancestry can be determined by genetic mapping and we don't need bones to verify the theory. Theories make predictions and can be used to develop other theories and open up entirely new lines of inquiry. The theory of evolution is useful because is works, not necessarily because it is fact. Evolution is fact but natural selection is a theory. Bottom line is that it works. God as an explanation doesn't work for us and is not really an answer in that regard. Its an excuse not to think about it.

Answer 4

Life is a by-product of carbon chemistry. Things which do not contain carbon will not exhibit life. Evolution cannot be denied except by those who do not want to understand no matter what. Remember for hundreds of years the Church insisted that the earth was the centre of the Universe and that the Sun revolved around the earth. There was no basis in that assertion. Ant-evolutionists today are rather like the tobacco companies who denied that smoking causes cancer: Nothing short of infallible evidence would convince them and millions of people died as a result. Evolution has much more evidence to support it than any other theory, including intelligent design. But belief in the face of overwhelming evidence seems to be a trait of the Religious who, at the same time insist that there is a God but can provide only transcendent evidence which can 'justify' the existence of anything that can possibly be imagined but still provides nothing spatial and temporal which can be examined.

Answer 5

Evolution is an interesting, credible and widely accepted theory. As for irrefutable evidence, there is no such thing. Theory will always be speculation, and no more. Yes, evolution does explain many things, but anyone with a little creativity can think up a million other theories that explain the same thing. As long as it can't be disproved, it is essentially credible. Hell, I could say that evolution is a result of some 4th dimensional child playing SimEarth on his 4th dimensional computer. You can't prove my speculation wrong; although I'm fairly sure my theory wouldn't be widely accepted. And that is my nonsensical answer -- maybe I took the wrong combination of cold medicine?

Answer 6

What's ironic is...

It took 5 billions years for evolution to eventually evolve creatures that could figure out that they were products of an evolutionary process, even though people are constantly "evolving" within their own lifespans, and can easily see other lifeforms evolving around them...
"Natural Selection" is so obvious, and it's what everybody does (we naturally select a mate almost by pure chance, and then mix our genetic material with them) and it's also obvious that certain human traits are better for survival and reproduction than others, thus ensuring those successful survival and repro traits are passed on to successive generations, that I am bewildered by people's notion that somehow the genetic law of "Natural Selection" is incorrect, and that it somehow is in opposition to the idea of a bodiless, pure energy being who created the universe...!!!
Is it lack of education? Stubborn adherence to a primitive notion of supernaturalism?
Or could it be that a profound belief in the supernatural is "itself" a successful survival and reproductive trait? Nature doesn't seem to care what we believe, as long as we reproduce, and survive long enough to bring our offspring up to par so they can reproduce...!
Go figure...(people who believe sex is bad, are the ones reproducing the most)...

Answer 7

Most fossil intermediates in vertebrate evolution have indeed been found. A clear line of fossils now traces the transition between whales and hoofed mammals, between reptiles and mammals, between dinosaurs and birds, between apes and humans. The fossil evidence of evolution between major forms is compelling.

Changes take millions of years, and are seen clearly in the fossil record. All the complex systems that you mentioned did not occur overnite, or even in a thousand generations.

What's wrong with your argument is that each part of a complex molecular machine evolves as part of the system. Natural selection can act on a complex system because at every stage of its evolution the system functions. Parts that improve function are added, and, because of alter changes, become essential. The mammalian blood clotting system, for example, has evolved from much simpler systems. The core clotting system evolved at the dawn of the vertebrates 600 million years ago, and is found today in lampreys, the most primitive fish.

One hundred million years later, as vertebrates evolved, proteins were added to the clotting system making it sensitive to substances released from damaged tissues and so greatly increasing its sensitivity. Fifty million years later a third component was added, triggering clotting by contact with the jagged surfaces produced by injury. At each stage as the clotting system evolved to become more complex, its overall performance came to depend on the added elements.

Mammalian clotting, which utilizes all three pathways, no longer functions if any one of them is disabled. Blood clotting has become "irreducibly complex"as the result of Darwinian evolution.

You can take each item you mentioned, heart, lungs, emotions, the human eye, etc. and make the same argument.

Answer 8

you're an idiot. evolution occurs over thousands and thousands of years. you cant just sit back and watch a lizard -poof! turn into a bird. there are tons of transitional fossils both on the record and in museums. mutations are mutations, they happen sponaneously and not for the aim of being beneficient. the development of the eye, reproductive system, digestive tract, brain, etc, were not random at all. you will understand things better if you actually read and retain information on the subject. all of your questions are terrible ones, and you make hardly any sense at all.

Answer 9

I do. Mutations and environmental aspects caused DNA to change into new species. We are still evolving...we just can't see it b/c we only live a tiny fraction of the time that it takes. How long have the "new species" of insects and animals been in existance? Scientists discover them every year you know.

Answer 10

Basically, this question is beyond answering. You don't have one piece of accurate information. I could try and point out every things you have wrong, but that is everything. This leads me to believe that this is a joke. If you are seriously this uneducated on evolution, I will answer questions for you, but you must first realize that you need to start at square one on your education on evolution.

email me if you are seriously interested in knowing about how evolution is not only possible in every way, but is the only scientific explanation of the origins of the species.