What is some evidence for evolution?

Question

I'm doing a school project, and would like to know some resources, reasons, or just your opinion. Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't believe in evolution. My brother has had some slime in the corner of his tub forever and I have yet to see one damn monkey or fish or bird or lizard come out of it.

Answer 2

Evolution takes place over long and short periods of time on a large and small scale. A perfect example of modern evolution is how many wild animals instinctively have avoided humans since being hunted. The animal that is able to associate human smell or figure with danger, lives. While the animal(same species) that associates human smell or figure with curiousity, dies. And so the animal that lives will reproduce and pass on its traits to future generations.

Exception, some animals are capable of learning and communicating danger to some extent.(especially predators, like coyotes). But then another thing comes to mind, the animals that are better suited learners, survive also. Its the survival of the fittest anyway you look at it.

Answer 3

Were you issued a biology textbook?

Or you could hit the library. Use Darwin's Origin of Species, or any other texts relating to evolution. Teachers don't usually like internet sources.

Answer 4

I read your answers in this post prior to writing my answer and i was looking at the talking points provided to you and that work is a scholarly work, worthy of close inspection. I could only scan the thing quickly, (the first page) and on the surface of it, I was impressed by the articulation of his presentation......it was well done, again worthy of your reading.

Now down to nuts and bolts.

evolution, like creation requires faith. No one was there when it all happened. I reject evolution totally as unprovable, anti-god, and jibberish, though it does provide for intellectual stimulation and debate, a healthy thing in a man's life.

But the point of this post is to help you will evolution and that is what I will do.

first, evolution works from the idea that out of simple life comes complex life.
In the early days of the earth, as you will read, the world was mostly an ocean with organic compounds that came together and created simple life forms. These life forms are found in the fossil record as simple one life celled animals. (encyclopedia britannica, origin of life, i don't have them with me to look up the specific pages, my set is from 1989)

warmed by the sun, these simple celled lifeforms over time had mutations that gave them an advantage over other cells of similiar structure and became mutlicelled life forms, (such as the hydra rather than sponges, while the structures are similar the sponge is more complex that are hydra, so keep it simple.) Origin of the Species, Darwin, discredited completely by Dr. Gould one of the authors cited first in the talking points above. He created the neo-darwin models that are actually the evolution model, though darwin is what is taught).

as these changes provided for higher life forms, other mutations along the way provided for them to climb out of the sea. You will see these in the talking points of the first page of the web page sited, so I'm not going to double reference this. However, usually mutations result in that lifeform being on the dinner plate. A problem with mutations especially in mammals, is that in the first trimester of pregnancy, a severe mutation is aborted sponaneously.

If you will check up on monozygotic twinning, you will aslo see that sometimes the bad genetic material is cast off in non-viable mass. When the cells divide and produce the identical twins, it is possible one twin will have all the defective material and usually does not live long.

So keep this in mind while presenting your paper. Evolution needs slight changes over time, to make macro evolution work. and in higher life forms, such as mammals, slight changes can happen, you have seen the two headed calf, the lamb I think was born with 6 legs, (is that an insect, no it is still a lamb with six legs). These changes do not help the creature at all. It usually results in death.

the change from cow to giraffe is known as punctuated equilbrium, as sighted in paragraph one of the web page. Unsupported from observation, or testing, as it is not possible. Genetics state that if you plant a carrot, you get a carrot, not a bird. Equally, a bird mates with a bird and gets another bird, not an elephant.

So keep your work simple here and don't open yourself up for questions.

I will tell you this before I end it, evolution, a simple form of it, was first taught in the time of plato. It has never not existed. I don't have time to look up the references, but darwins dad or grandad stole evolution from a frenchman, continued to work on it, and eventually darwin, a dismal failure of a man, was placed on a voyage, looked at the life around him and came to all the wrong conclusions.

If you want to see what a real scientist made of the world in that time period, look up and read about the voyage of the Challenger with a naturalist, just like darwin was, and see the profound difference education makes.

I can defend evolution, and I can defend creation, but I can't defend evolution without committing intellectual suicide. The facts don't support it. As for a common ancestor for all life forms, the cells of plants and animals are all very common to one another. IF a god created the world, and he used similiar cells to create it, then there would be a common root of all cells as science clearly has established, but no evolution. It is point of view. If you say god had nothing to do with life being here, one must look for another explaination, just as the ancient greeks believed in the gods of olympus, science looks to science where facts don't jive to someone who honestly examines the facts.

there are good people in the evolution group, don't discount them because they believe differently. go with the facts

Answer 5

You could base your whole research on Charles Darwin. Big name in this field, i strongly recommend you look into his work, with the birds and their different shaped beaks, you'll know what i mean if you look around on google, just search his name.

Answer 6

29+ Evidences for macroevolution/common descent. Take your pick. :)

Note: My source contains some material that requires some heavy (a.k.a. real) science education to understand. In other words, if you see a creationist scoffing at this, you'll know they're scientifically ignorant.

Answer 7

I don't know about evolution, but I can think of one specific case of devolution.

Answer 8

You'll be better off in the biology section.

Answer 9

Try these:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/060119_breathing_ears.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060116/pf/060116-8_pf.html
http://www.2think.org/eye.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/1/l_011_01.html
http://www.becominghuman.org/
http://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/index.shtml
http://www.evolutionary-philosophy.net/sex.html
http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/disorders/sloozeworm/mutationbg.cfm
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn10581-neanderthals-have-genome-chunk-sequenced.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1977716.htm
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/