Can you sum up / explain evolution and the big bang in a short paragraph each please?

Question

everything on the internet goes on about words I don't understand and confusing stuff and I just need a really basic explanation for them both! As short as possible please

I've got two pictures for evolution one is sort of a timeline from the formation of the earth through to the first cells to the dinosaurs. The other is from monkey to man. Can you explain them please? The Big Bang one doesn't need explaining as much because it's got writing on the picture.

Answer 1

It's hard to make things "as short as possible" *AND* avoid words you don't understand. It takes a lot more words to say the same thing if you have to avoid science words. This is something kids misunderstand about science ... if you learn a few simple science words, it dramatically *shortens* the amount you have to read.

That said, here are your two paragraphs (hopefully without a single word you are not familiar with):

Evolution is just slow change over long time. That's it. In biology it means slow change to a species over many generations. If you've ever been to a dog show you see people who have been breeding dogs for many generations until some of them are great danes, and some are chihuauas ... that's evolution (directed by humans). The theory of evolution is the explanation for how that happens in nature, and explains how all the species on earth are the result of this slow change (and a lot of branching) all the way back to the first living cells 4 billion (4,000 million) years ago.

The big bang theory has nothing to do with biology. It is a theory about the origins of the universe. The main evidence for it is the fact that all the distant galaxies are moving away from our galaxy and from each other. Based on this we can compute that about 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe occupied a tiny area ... with a *huge* amount of energy. From this (and other evidence), it certainly appears that the universe sprang into existence about 14 billion years ago with a *huge* amount of energy. What caused it? We don't know. But all the evidence seems to point to the fact that it happened.

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As for your two evolution pictures, it's hard to comment on them since we can't see them. But I will say that one will be a timeline occupying the 4,600 million years of the earth, while the second one (human evolution) only occupies the last 30 million years or so of primate evolution. So they are consistent with each other.

But I will say that a *really* important point (which I hope these pictures communicate) is that evolution is not a long linear chain ... but a long, constantly branching *bush*. Like this illustration of primate evolution (notice the *branching*):
http://hometown.aol.com/darwinpage/phillytree.gif

Answer 2

Big Bang - A dense collection of matter collided and resulted in an explosion, which supposedly created the Universe(s).

Evolution - A theory by Darwin, which says life changed overtime to adapt to an environment, through trial and error.
Modern evidence doesn't support it, though there's still a huge debate over it.

Answer 3

Evolution is a hypothesis that all life on earth originated from non-life.
The original appearance of life is called abiogenesis.
There is no scientific explanation of how this may have happened.
The subsequent evolution of life is alleged to have occured by natural selection acting on random genetic mutations.
However no mutations have ever been observed that add genetic information. Evolution requires the addition of vast amounts of information.

Evolution is a philosophical (religious) idea that is not supported by the evidence.
The alternative, creation, is rejected by many on religious grounds, but in fqact provides a much better explanation of the evidence we see around us.

For further investigation, I recommend
http://www.creationontheweb.com/

For example it is easy to refute evolution:
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4013/

Answer 4

Evolution is the way in which groups of organisms change over time, usually in response to changes in their environment. The way in which this change is carried out is by a process known as "natural selection," where those organisms that are best able to survive go on to reproduce, and pass down to their offspring the same traits that allowed them to survive. So "natural selection" is NOT blind chance.
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. That is a different field of study called "abiogenesis".
Evolution is a tool used to explain how organisms change, and to try to understand how they will change in the future. It's the best tool, so far, that has been found for making these predictions; chances are, it will remain the best tool for the job for many years to come.

Answer 5

evoloution- cells constantly mutate through generations to favour the environment in ehich they find themselves.

big bang- sub atomic particles collide causing an explosion/implosion which forms and spews matter outwords eventually forming planets and stars (some scientists claim there is a constant cycle between a bang and a crunch where is all closes in on itself.)

Answer 6

human evolution is evolution of modern human beings from extinct nonhuman and humanlike forms.

Genetic evidence points to an evolutionary divergence between the lineages of humans and the great apes on the African continent 8–5 million years ago (mya). The earliest fossils considered to be remains of hominins (members of the human lineage) date to at least 4 mya in Africa; they are classified as genus Australopithecus. The next major evolutionary stage, Homo habilis, inhabited sub-Saharan Africa about 2–1.5 mya. Homo habilis appears to have been supplanted by a taller and more humanlike species, Homo erectus, which lived from c. 1,700,000 to 200,000 years ago, gradually migrating into Asia and parts of Europe. Between c. 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, Homo heidelbergensis, sometimes called archaic Homo sapiens, lived in Africa, Europe, and perhaps parts of Asia. Having features resembling those of both H. erectus and modern humans, H. heidelbergensis may have been an ancestor of modern humans and also of the Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis), who inhabited Europe and western Asia from c. 200,000 to 28,000 years ago. Fully modern humans (H. sapiens) seem to have emerged in Africa only c. 150,000 years ago, perhaps having descended directly from H. erectus or from an intermediate species such as H. heidelbergensis.

big bang is a model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion–15 billion years ago.

Answer 7

After chaos order prevailed

Answer 8

Well basically...there was this big bang...then there was some evolution.