Evolution?

Question

I want to take a survey....
who here actually believes in evolution? It is one of the most far fetched out of thin air ideas i think anyone has ever thought of.... And why was it so widely excepted when there is no actual proof that it is real....
there are so many holes and "Missing links" that i dont understand why people trust this theory so much....

Answer 1

well, evoulution is only a theory and not a fact or a law. I don't believe on evolution. We started with all these things. We only adapt and not evolve

Answer 2

There is actually a ton of evidence to support evolution. Have you actually ever researched it yourself or are you only asking a religious leader (I only say this because this is often the main group of resistance to evolution). Whenever you get your info from one source do yourself a favor and just check out the other side.

Not only can you see this in bone structures of animals, but you can also see it through increasing similarity of DNA in related species. Chemistry of the gases on the earth also support evolution. Also Darwin's work also shows that animals (or people) who do not have traits to suit their environment will either move somewhere else (if they have the means) Or they will die, and those who's traits are beneficial in a certain environment will live.

Take for instance the trait of vulnerability to skin cancer in a family. Some people may have a gene and others won't. Those that end up developing cancer did not have the optimal traits for their environment. If medical knowledge and technology did not exist , those who developed cancer would die. Eventually over many generations all or most of those individuals with the trait will no longer be able to pass on their genes. There you have it. This is a product of evolution. It is still occuring today. Now the species has changed to one that does not have the skin cancer vulnerability in their gene pool. Obviously big changes take hundreds and hundreds of years, but they happen.

I wanted to also mention just for an interesting fact, that Darwin (The father of evolution) was an incredibly religious christian man. He did not feel his research on evolution interferred with his faith.

My personal feeling or sort of personal daydream/theory (being Christian myself) is that the mortal humans who wrote the bible most likely could not understand the greatness of God and how he accomplished what he did by creating the world and those that live upon it. So I feel that they used a story as a metaphor to spread the word of gods creation of the world. What an amazing creation if god was able to design evolution itself to what eventually developed into the species of animals and of course the human beings that are supposed to be created in his image. Just a thought. Maybe there is a way to stay true to your religious beliefs without disregarding or rejecting some very well researched evidence.

I will attach for you a few sites so you can gain a more well rounded perspective, after you read all the information make an informed decision.

Answer 3

Evolution is one of the framworks of biological science with more than 200 years of experimentation behind it. The concept of evolution was around long before Darwin, who didn't create the idea of evolution but instead provided the framework for how it occurred in a time long before anyone had a concept of a gene or DNA.

Those who say that evolution is "only a theory" do not understand the meaning of the word theory in scientific terms. Most non-scientists think that hypothesis and theory are interchangable, but in science, a theory is an explanation or model that covers a substantial group of occurrences in nature and has been confirmed by a substantial number of experiments and observations. A theory is more general and better verified than a hypothesis.

Tell the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity is "only a theory" or tell Isaac Newton that the Theory of General Relativity is just a theory and that the apple on his lap proves nothing.


A look into the fossil record turns up many more links than are missing. Look up Australopithicus afarensis, for example. Or the lungfish, which has a modified swim bladder that allows it to breather air and front fins that are rotated below the body and are modified for movement on land.

While evolution has a couple of hundred years of research and hundreds of millions of years of fossil record to support it, creation has the word of a small portion of religious fundamentalists putting forth their interpretation of a non-peer reviewed book.

I say religious fundamentalists because most Christian denominations acknowledge evolution as having occurred although they stipulate that it occurred according to God's will.

Answer 4

I personally think that evolution is not only possible, it is always occurring. It has been proven that animals have evolved over time, as well as humans. Just 300 years ago, it was a rarity to find a fully-grown man that stood over 6 feet tall. Now, most men reach 6 feet or higher. However, to say that humans evolved from apes is nearly impossible to believe. My personal belief is that God created us in his image. So how could we have came from monkeys? However, I also firmly believe that through God, anything is possible. So, who's to say that God didn't create humans through apes? Perhaps he made it so that only a certain type of ape would evolve into humans, which is why there are still other apes in our world today. I know it is a far-fetched idea, but we must remember that anything is possible. Why are people so concerned with where we came from, though? My belief is that God put us all on this earth for a specific reason, and our goal is to find out what God called us to do and live out our lives pleasing Him. That's all there is to it. Does it matter if we came from monkeys? Is that going to change our purpose here on earth? I really do doubt it.

Answer 5

Wrong, evolution is the most widely supported and proven theory around.

Evolution was an idea at first. Put down famously, but not firstly, by Darwin. The idea was simple. Animals of a species with minor differences that help them get along in life, have more children. More children end up being tall and soon short children are not seen so often.

Darwin saw this in bird beaks. If a birds beak is a little longer it can get more nectar from a deeper flower. All over the Galapagos different islands had birds with different beak sizes and different flowers that matched.

BUT THAT IS NOT PROOF THAT IS JUST A LITTLE SUPPORT

Along comes a different science all together. Geologists note that the earth's rock seems to set down in layers. If you see a moutain range tilted on its side it has tons of layers. Geologists drew tons of maps to show that the layers in one part of europe were the same as in other parts of europe.

WELL WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH EVOLUTION

Paleontologist came along digging up fossils that looked like ferns and fish and wierd bugs and stuff. And these two different sciences shared their information. Low and behold you could more easily tell where a layer belonged in the geological crust from fossils than from the maps they had drawn.

BUT THEN A NEW AND ENTIRELY UNRELATED SCIENCE COMES ALONG.

Radiophysics. It was found that carbon dating could be used to date old castles and ships wood with a great accuracy. Then later Strontium dating could date the geological record even more accurately back to 100s of millions of years.

WELL HERE IS A SILLY COINCIDENCE.

The Geological, Radiodating, and fossil record start to draw a picture of evolution's scope that Darwin wouldn't have imagined.

COINCIDENCE FOUR TOTALLY UNRELATED SCIENCES COME UP WITH THE SAME ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF HOW LIFE GOT HERE.

BUT LET US NOT STOP NOW

Let us look at the new era of DNA. Within the last century we have found the molecule of life. DNA makes it possible to procreate and pass on traits to your offspring.

LOW AND BEHOLD

All evidence for sequencing of DNA shows that differences in gene sequences of highly conserved genes vary with distance on the evolutionary tree imagined by Darwin.

This may be hard to take. Medical science is tied to the fact that evolution happened. There is no other reason to assume lab tests on rats are equivalent to lab test on humans. Why is the last trial always done on apes.

Every time you go to the doctor and take pill or get a surgery you are buying into evolution.

EVOLUTION UPHELD BY EVERY NEW ADVANCE IN SCIENCE SINCE ITS INCEPTION.

By the way Newton's Laws of Motion are bunk. We know they are false but we still call them laws. Einsteins relativity is just an elegant proof that Newton's so-called laws are just a special case that works only near earth at very slow speeds. Once you reach 30 percent the speed of light Newton's laws are useless. Yet we still call them laws.

This is why nothing is allowed to be called a law any more. It is a theory.

Answer 6

Yes, I believe in evolution. It is a proven, workable theory of human origins. There will always "missing links", because only a fraction of the remains of lifeforms actually fossilize. We continue to find good fossils and fragments of skeletons, some with actual DNA left intact, such as the bones of wooly mammoths.

The theory of evolution is disprovable, meaning that scientists know just what evidence, if it were discovered, would disprove the theory. All scientific theories are disprovable, otherwise they would be unworkable.

Evolution, like all important scientific theories, has applications. It has made predictions that genetics and microbiology, and these sciences have strengthened evolutionary theory.

We humans share 98% of our DNA with the chimpanzee species, which confirms what evolutionary scientists already knew from fossils and from physiology, that we have a common ancestory with chimpanzees, and that species went extinct millions of years ago.

Understanding science takes hard work, and patience. Science is behind all of the technological advances in our world: cellphones, the internet, satellite radio. Cures for cancer are related to discoveries in evolution and genetics.

You should learn about science before you jump to conclusions that you have. Evolution is very real and explains human origins.

Answer 7

If this is a survey, please count my vote in favor of the theory of evolution, as one of the most powerful ideas in all science. The concept of evolution is far reaching, having applications beyond the matter of origin of life. People who say that the principle of evolution is an impossibility remind me of the people that used to say that manned powered flight is impossible, while at the same time the Wright Brothers were touring the United States with their flying machine. Corporations are already making a profit from the principle of evolution. It's moved into the arena of applied engineering with commerical applications.

Answer 8

We have found bodies that are 10,000 years old and followed the progress to present day. And nothing is missing unless you want to ignore hard evidence. The average height of a man in the civil war was 5foot 2inches. Today that average is 5foot 10 inches. So in 150 years we have witnessed evolution! But the story about Adam and Eave being created so that God could kick them out of the garden for eating an apple makes much more sense!!!!!

Answer 9

I respect your beliefs but I also think you should do a bit more research into it from a variety of sources. Some people's have information filtered by their family, their community, or even by their entire nation so although they are making the most rational decision, they don't have enough valid evidence to be able to come up with what is ultimately the right decision. What is ultimately the right decision here? Not my place to tell you as I am still researching myself...but I am leaning to toward the evolution argument for a number of reasons.

Answer 10

I am going to assume that the "Best Answer" will go to someone who agrees with you 100%. Number two, the EXCEPTIONS to the theory of evolution are much less than the EXCEPTIONS that exist in creationism, intelligent design, or whatever you think may have happened. Number 3, evolution is ACCEPTED by scientists, people who look at evidence and evaluate this evidence by applying the scientific method which requires them to apply doubt to ideas put forward by others until those ideas pass the scrutiny.

Answer 11

Farfetched?
You think so? That is a common misguided opinion of the mind closed to the idea that we changed over the thousands of years we have been on this planet. We adapted, used more portions of our brains etc.
Education will show you that evolution makes sense.
The beauty about education is that it doesnt push it Evolution) down your throat with threats of everlasting damnation.
You dont believe it? Thats fine.
As for your survey, yes it is plausable and probable and very possible..