Have you personally seen or felt proof of evolution?

Question

Not have you read about it; have you seen it for yourself? If not why do you believe it?

I expected the mistaken arrogance of the evolutionary religious fanatics. I do not dispute that living things adapt to their environment, but I do dispute that they change their species over any given amount of time.

A fruit fly is still a fruit fly even after it adapts to its environment. A collie and a St. Bernard still walk, talk, and act like dogs. A flower does not evolve to become at tree. If Macro evolution exists where is the proof today, or has it recently stopped? What do you BELIEVE?

The key to the whole question is not see whether you can insult people into believing what you believe. It was to demonstrate that you have a belief system, and it is called evolution. You believe it instead of the bible. It is still called a theory because it is unproven. So in reality, it is your belief vs. my belief.

DuckPhup -- You are right you do not have to prove anything. You have the right to BELIEVE anything that you would like to. You choose to BELIEVE the predictive framework of the theory of evolution.

Andymcj78 -- If you claim that evolution is not a belief system, then the burden is on you to prove it. Instead you extrapolate it. I am not attacking you; I am simply pointing out that you have a belief system that you advance as scientific fact.

The question remains where is the 1/2 fruit-fly that is also 1/2 something else? I do not dispute mutations within species; I dispute natural selection.

Answer 1

Well...I would say Paris Hilton disproves intelligent design, if that's what you mean.

Answer 2

Well, if you take a look at a monkey, you'll see that it isn't the lesser-evolved form of humans. They are the highest in evolution that chimpanzees have gotten, and are due yet to evolve to adapt to surroundings.

Evolution would not have been around if it weren't for the climate change due to a major asteroid collision with the earth.

Felt, no. But then again, look at the mountains of proof that are given in science books (plural) as opposed to the bible (plural only to depict King Edwards vs King James versions, OT vs NT). What else are we supposed to believe? And if that's what we're supposed to believe, who told us we had to believe? Who told that person to tell us?

Answer 3

Yes, I have received more then one flu vaccine, which is evidence of evolution. I have two cats, that have been breed from wild cats. I have used medical treatments, most of which are based on evolutionary biology.

Upon reading your added statements it is apparent you have much to learn about evolution. You must have gone to a private school, because I learned what a theory was when I was in high school, and you have yet to do so.

Answer 4

Sure. I've planted things in my yard from other areas of the country - partly because I like the plants, and partly to see what they would do.

As each year passes, that plant mutates and adapts to the environment - quite visible changes - leaf shape and length, height of the plant, even color, size and amount of flowers.

Mutation and adaptation - making it so that a plant, animal, human, even germ can survive and thrive - THAT is what evolution is - some is quick, like with plants, some takes decades, centuries, millenia even.

(sadly, I've experienced it with germs as well - and in myself. I had what was considered chronic bronchitis for many years - the germs changed - antibiotics that worked last time no longer did, I build up immunities to the drugs as well as the germs. Not fun, but proof in fact.)

Answer 5

I've run several chemostat experiments to determine the relative importance of plasmids in bacterial evolution. Both the plasmid-containing and plasmid free populations evolved.

Answer 6

If I were given a 20 million dollar grant to study finches on the Galapagos Islands for 20 years..then I'd have a different answer.

But no. I have to stare at a computer screen for 8 hours ok?

Answer 7

You really ought to get out and train your mind instead of getting by on the Christian "milk" teachings. Understand what makes up the scientific process and why things are considered evidence.

Answer 8

Yes. I was having difficulty reaching a quarter that fell through the grill of the heating register in the hall.

After stamping around and pant-hooting for some time, I settled down and fashioned a crude tool from a stick and some double sided tape.

Then after several attempts - I retrieved the coin!

My wife rewarded me with a candy bar.

Answer 9

uhhhhh hello do you see grass grow?? no bacause its TOO SLOW it happens over millions and millions of years. not just woo yesterday i was an ape and to day im a man hmm.

it takes a long time and there is soooo much proof its unreal there is more proof about evolution than there is about the bible thats why i belive it more.

and if somehow something pops up that means the bible is defo true then i will believe that.

keep your options open xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Answer 10

Yeah, I went to a museum and saw what we looked like thousands of years ago, and I have to say, it's very similar, but not the same as how we look today.

I'm not a scientist though, so I haven't seen any actual cavemen skeletons. I also haven't lived for a million years and I most likely wont live that long, so I haven't seen any animals change, personally.

Answer 11

There's nothing to 'prove', and evolution has nothing to do with 'belief'. The 'Theory of Evolution' merely provides an explanatory framework and predictive model for the OBSERVED FACT that the genetic makeup of local populations of organisms (the 'gene pool') changes, over time. The 'evolution' that YOU are referring to has nothing to do with science... it is a 'straw man'... the 'comic book' version of evolution that was dreamed up by creationists for the sole purpose of bamboozling their scientifically ignorant constituency. That would be you.
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