Evolution?

Question

Do you believe in evolution?Do you really think man came from an ape? What the f*ck, no way!!

How old do you think the earth is?

Answer 1

Everyone is forgetting one thing: there's a reason why evolution remains merely a THEORY.
Why?
Because there's no scientific evidence to prove it.

Take out religion, leave it purely to the scientists, and still no one can prove evolution is real.

Answer 2

If some god created man in his image, does god have back problems, have to operate on itself for appendicitis, get bitten by mosquitoes? Can a cheetah run faster than this god? Can a hawk see farther than god? Can a dog smell better than god? Can god get cancer? Where did this god come from?

When someone answers these questions with some evidence instead of beliefs maybe I will consider an alternative to evolution.

Humans didn't come from apes. We ARE apes. Just like gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.

The evidence for evolution is not only in the fossil record, but now with modern DNA studies, the same information is verified by DNA. This is how science works. New methods test old theories.

Answer 3

I do think evolution is very possible, and man did come from ape. We didn't just come out of thin air. We share 99% of our DNA - that's proof enough within itself.

I think the Earth may be billions, millions, or thousands of years old - We don't know. We don't know if we're actually the first humans on earth, what if we have a cycle of getting very advanced, then destroying the planet back to a lava covered rock, then slowly evolving back into humans. We all may be alien experiments, all genetic experiments put on this planet for observation, and testing.

Answer 4

Scientists believe the earth to be about 4.6 billion years old! As for evolution - that is one of the questions that will go on being asked for ever. There is plenty of evidence to show a natural progression in evolution from bacteria in rocks to the latest fossil discoveries of man's early ancestors. What are the alternative theories? We were made by GOD? Who made him? Was He always there? Nobody will ever know the answer. I think it was H.G. Wells that said, as he was dying, "Now we go into the great Unknown!". As an aetheist even he was unsure!

Answer 5

> Evolution?
Yes.

> Do you believe in evolution?
Yes. It is the only explanation for how mini-dachshunds came to be, from wolf ancestors. It is the best explanation for corn, from teosinte. It is the best explanation for the biodiversity we see on semi-isolated islands and archipelagos, e.g. 700 species of fruit fly on the Hawaiian archipelago.

> Do you really think man came from an ape?
Yes.

> How old do you think the earth is?
I haven't checked, myself, but I accept the current scientific thinking, which is 4.5 billion years, give or take a few hundred million.

Answer 6

I believe in evolution, man and apes are descended from a common ancestor many millions of years ago, in fact man is classified as an ape.

It is nothing to be alarmed about, man descended from an ape like ancestor, so did chimpanzees. Due to the process of speciation over millions of years, chimps and man have become two distinct species and are thus reproductively isolated. (cannot interbreed)

The earth is approximately 4.567 billion years old based on geological dating.

Answer 7

michael is right.

Scientists don't hold much stock in the argument "What the f*ck, no way!!"

How old is the earth? Scientists are about as certain of the statement "the earth is 4.6 billion years old" as they are of the statement "the earth is 91 million miles away from the sun."

If you're going to say that the earth is 6,000 years old, that is as plausible to a scientist as the idea that the earth is 6 miles away from the sun. (Not 6,000 miles ... 6 miles ... that is about the same order of magnitude of the numerical difference from the scientific answer.)

Answer 8

I don't believe in evolution. Yes there are a lot of theories, but they are theories never the less.

I have a seen a photo of a giant scull with a stone embedded into its forehead, would you say that suggests that David slew Golioth as told in the Bible?

My point is, there is a number theories on how people exist and why, but ultimately it come down to the theory that is most convincing to you as a individual. As a Christian evolution is not the theory i believe in.

Answer 9

Everyone gets so hung up on the ape idea, like to admit that humans share their distant ancestry with a "lower" animal is to admit to being a "low" animal. Some people won't even admit that we are in fact animals!

But wait, it gets even better! Apelike creatures themselves didn't come out of thin air either; they are thought to have come from arboreal primates an even longer time ago, which are thought to have come from rather rodent-like mammals, which are supposed to have come from mammal-like reptiles, and so on back through reptiles, amphibians, fish, primitive marine chordates, back to single-celled forms!

Does that mean you are no better than an ameba?

If you object to objective evidence merely because it offends your sensibilities, then you are seriously handicapping your understanding of the world and how it works.

Answer 10

Evolution. The long-term process through which a population of organisms accumulats genetic changes that enable its members to successfully adapt to environmental conditions and to better exploit food resources.

there are many informations about Evolution at
http://www.bio-medicine.org/?q=/biology-dictionary/Evolution

Answer 11

i accept that evolution happened, is happening, and will continue to happen. humans did not evolve from apes, humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, which is now extinct. the earth is about 4.5 billion years old.