Right I am sick of this now, either evolution has supporting evidence?

Question

or it doesn't? Is there evidence for evolution or not? Is it black and white? YES or NO?

Answer 1

The answer is "yes", evolution is the best explanation we have for the origins of species, including us humans. As with any topic in science, evolution is difficult to grasp. I'm still trying to understand it myself.

Take the time to learn about it, and you'll find it makes sense, but understand it is a scientific theory and so is constantly being challenged by science.

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Answer 2

Yes. If you want to see evolution under artificial selection then domestic animals and agriculture is the clearest. The theory of evolution by natural selection simply provided a way for evolution to occur in the wild.

Many of our modern food plants are unable to be bred with their parent wild stocks any more and the same is true of our domestic animals. Speciation in Corn and other grains is particularly clear.
Variation to the point of speciation is not extremely common, but it is common enough to be a concern to plant breeders. Almost all bananas grown today are from the Cavendish strains and there is no way to back cross them to find a more disease resistant variety. (and they are currently threatened with extermination from a virus)

In biology it has been demonstrated in different flies and microbes.

Yes, there is real and solid evidence.
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I love seeing how confused some people are over the difference between facts, laws and theories.
A fact is an observed thing. Like if I hold a pencil out and let it go it falls.

A law is a description of an observed relationship, normally expessed as a formula. Newtons universal law of gravitation is a good example. It gives the math formula to calculate the forces and distances involved between objects due to gravity. How far, how fast and how hard they fall

A theory is an explanation of the facts and laws that makes certain testable predictions. Why the pencil falls and why it falls like the law describes it will.

At the moment there is a wealth of theories of gravity, each of which work better in different situations.

Theories never grow up to be facts or laws. These are all very different things and they never become each other except in the popular press.

Answer 3

It has supporting evidence, that's how it became a Theory (not the same as the "theory" used in common speech). The only way to say that it doesn't have supporting evidence is to ignore the evidence or attribute it to something else. So far, all the other "something else's" are pure speculation promoted by people with no proof. Jews can accept evolution, why can't christians?

Answer 4

Depends what you mean by evolution. And there's a lot of variations on what people call evolution.

If you're talking about natural selection there's tons of evidence and even direct observation.

If you're talking about the origin of life the evidence is pretty speculative -- nobody has ever observed a living cell which did not come from another living cell. Yet, there must have been a first living cell. There various theories about how the first cell formed but nobody was there to see it happen.

Answer 5

The evidence is there.The conclusion of that evidence is still debatable.But flip the coin in reverse and check to see where the evidence is for Creationism in black and white and you will get a big "no" or at the least a small "maybe" with a conclusion already planned out and yet still without evidence and debatable within the circles of those that believe in Creationism as to what the conclusion is.

Answer 6

Outside of mathematics, there are very few "black and white," "Yes or No" answers.

Yes there is evidence supporting both micro and macro evolution. But there are still very many questions about it too. Patience is the keyword here, whichever you believe. Let the thinkers and the doers have some time and we'll eventually get some answers.

Answer 7

Nothing is ever in black and white, including so-called "faith" despite the attempts of some to make it so.

As for evolution, there is so much evidence the weight of it constitutes proof as far as I am concerned.

Creationism is not science. It is not much of anything other than a bunch of twisted facts.

http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoEvidence.html
http://www.txtwriter.com/backgrounders/Evolution/EVcontents.html
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/topicbrowse2.php?topic_id=46

Answer 8

The only people denying the mountains of evidence supporting evolutionary theory are people insisting on the validity of an alternative that has absolutely zero evidence whatever.

Answer 9

Yes, it is a case of black or white now. There was a time, early on, when it was only a beautiful theory and educated people existed in a gray area between unquestioning belief and skepticism, but the data are overwhelming now.

I think a good resource to look through is this site:
http://www.talkorigins.org
Dig around a bit.. the faqs are quite good. All references are provided in case you want them.

Answer 10

Yes, there is ample evidence that evolution occurs in the natural world.

The only people that ask this question are those that find God and evolution at opposite poles. If God is about faith, then what would evolution or anything for that matter have to do with faith?