Current observable evolution of the Human Race?

Question

If the human race all came from Adam and Eve I assume their descendants would all have very similar characteristics.

Does not the sheer diversity of the human race today, which shows itself in different racial characteristics, indicate a form of evolution which cannot be denied?

Interesting to see Christians haggling over different types of evolution.
As one answer says - Lots of micro-evolution becomes macro-evolution.

Answer 1

Of course this shows that evolution within the humans species has occurred and is still occurring.

The distinction between microevolution (which some creationists acknowledge) and macroevolution (which they deny) is meaningless scientifically. The definition of a species is very tenuous. For instance for years, ornithologists called all Canada Geese one species. Now they think there may be two -- Canada geese and Cackling geese. IS this microevolution or macroevolution.

Another avian example: As you go round the northern hemisphere the populations of lesser black backed gulls gradually change until they become herring gulls. There are places where both species exist together and they are obviously different species, but you can see every little step between the two.

As my Scottish grandmother used to say "many a mickle makes a muckle" = "many a small thing makes a big thing". That is how evolution works over the millennia with many small changes leading to large changes.

Answer 2

Race and subspecies is not the same, in humans or anything else (where it would probably be called breed, rather than race). For a subspecies to occur, certain members of a species have to become cut-off from the rest, and evolve in isolation, meaning they have clear genetic differences. No group of humans has ever been isolated from the rest for long enough for a sub-species to evolve. Take two humans, one is north European, the other is Asian. Their DNA is almost entirely the same, the only difference being about the same (in terms of percentage) as the difference between a blue eyed person, and a brown eyed person. People with blue eyes are not a subspecies, and nor are people of different races. Indeed, all human beings are subspecies of the homo sapiens species - i.e. all human beings are homo sapiens sapiens regardless of race. In terms of biological classification, race has no more significance than hair colour - it just isn't enough to make a sub species. Your teacher is wrong. There is no subspecies of human beings.

Answer 3

You are right - THe bible nor Christ never said evolution couldnt happen. But you adam and eve argument is pretty weak - its agreed that the big cats like lions and pumas and leapards started off as a single species but just like humans, the cats changed to best fit in their location.

How well would a blonde fair skinned white person do in subsaharan Africa - they would get baked. So yes as people spread out they got more diversified

So yes evolution occurs but what the bible doesnt support is species evolution - where a glob of slime turned into a fish that turned into a whale that turned into a pencil that turned into a monkey and so on

Answer 4

No....do all your siblings look just like you? These varieties in characteristics you have noticed are largely cosmetic...it's not like we have groups of humans with extra limbs or eyes roaming the Earth.

Micro-evolution (if that is indeed what is going on) does not contradict Creation...it only reinforces the genius of God in creating creature capable of adapting to variations in climate.

Macro evolution is much more than the result of lots of microevolution...and thats where the problem comes in! Hundreds of millions of years ago (if the scentists are correct) there were only ferns and some moss growing on dry land....no animal forms at all. The geological record then shows the sudden appearance of thousands upon thousands of new species....both plant and animal. No micro anything...just BLAMO! and lots of new species. Scientists today still cannot really explain how this happened...even though the Christians are pretty sure they already know.

Answer 5

The Adam and Eve story is fiction, as we know from genetic evidence. Evolution is a proven fact. If a species is not under environmental stress, you won't see visible evolution, as a mutation won't have a noticeable survival advantage over the original type. But invisible changes still occur, such as increased immunity to plagues such as the flu that struck in 1918 -- but hasn't been seen since.

Answer 6

a brown dog, a black dog, a small dog, a big dog. Variations. Not evolution. Evolution is a new species.

The variations in itself is not evidence.

Example....the finch that Darwin pointed out. Big beaks for breaking nuts. That's adaptation. never answers the question...where did the beak come from? Where is the bird without the beak?

Could go on and on...like..where does the feather come from, since birds "evolved" from reptiles.

WHERE IS THE TRANSISTIONAL EVIDENCE?

Answer 7

Yes.

The gene pool of two individuals is insufficiently diverse to produce a sruvivable population. It could not produce the diversity seen today without rampant evolution. Even given millions of years rather than thousands.

The Adam and Eve story is provable rubbish.

Answer 8

No, God has put within our DNA everything that is needed to create the diversity of the human family.

Answer 9

Does evolution include life after death,
because I know there is one.

Answer 10

The only evolution that matters is that of one's self. If one is like ice, hard-heartedness prevails. If one can melt and become like water, compassion prevails.

Evolution is a theory that helps scientists study and understand genetic diseases. The only use for Evolution is to apply it to the medical study of disease.