whats your opinion on evolution?

Question

do you believe in it or not?
and why do you or dont you?

Answer 1

people who say they don't believe in it, simply don't have the brain capacity to understand it.

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I wasn't going to elaborate because if you don't get it by now, you're not going to. You haven't evolved the ability to understand,
However, skaizun is off by implying that animals make a conscious effort to adapt to their environment.
Evolution comes from genetic mutations that make it easier for the species to survive. There are mutations that make it harder to the species to survive to, but those don't get passed on (because the animals get killed faster)

anyway here's a site that explains the evolution of horses pretty well
http://chem.tufts.edu/science/evolution/HorseEvolution.htm

If you don't get it, then I just hope the bible you're living by is making you be kind to others, and not just overly judgmental.

Answer 2

It always both interests and saddens me how often we find a version of this question on the biology boards. I think it reflects that in a lot of ways creationism is not so much a scientific movement (as it is almost universally rejected by scientists) but a political one.

The validity of the theory of evolution has not been under any serious scientific debate for many years for the simple fact that hundreds, if not thousands (if indeed not tens of thousands) of scientists have carried out experiments testing the theory and their results support it overwhelmingly. To emphasise this point lets take a look at the field of phylogenetics, the science of (amongst other things) deducing how closely related two species are by looking at how evolution has changed their genetic makeup over time. The fact is that if evolution is not correct, then the whole field of phylogenetics would not work. A great deal of other evidence, including carbon dating of Cro-Magnon bone samples which indicates that Cro-Magnon man was around at least ~30 000 years ago (some 24 000 years longer than the age of the earth by biblical accounts) contravene creationist arguments.

We have in fact now come to the point where we tend not to spend too much time actively investigation evolution, what we find is that wherever we conduct biological research we see results which can be explained very satisfactorily in the context of evolution. We find evidence for evolution even when we are conducting experiments seemingly unrelated to evolutionary biology.

Finding that after scientists investigate and expose their arguments and "evidence" as being complete rubbish many creationists have started peddling their wares in the field of politics rather than science. This has the unfortunate side effect that many people confuse the political debate for a genuine scientific debate. It is my sincerest hope that we can expose creationism to the people for what it is, a vulgar corruption of science, a pseudoscience which may one day be stamped out so that it’s backhanded arguments and barefaced lies may be buried forever.

Oh, and just a quick extra point, MLF helpfully provided a link to a document which in a lot of ways makes my point for me. The arguments are (crudely) reworked versions of genuine scientific arguments altered so they make a compelling, if completely fictitious case for creationism, try reading it in conjunction with “A brief history of time” by Stephen Hawking to see what I mean!

Answer 3

it's not a matter to believe or not. one can believe that the theory of gravity is not true and they can go about their lives. it's good that almost all of the worlds scientists believe evolution because it's very important for many things including medicine

Answer 4

In a sense, evolution is the ability of a species or people to adapt to their environment; in other words, they learn and grow. Of course, such people also learn to put an apostrophe after contractions (e.g., "what's"; "don't"). ;)

Answer 5

Evolution has its own scientific points of realities. it may not be totally right, but it is right. I dont have to believe in it, it is simple socience for me to accept, untill i am able to refute it. However, my faith in god belongs to another realm, of faith, and scientific tempo do not affect that........

Answer 6

It's not a matter of belief or not, it's a matter of accepting a fact.
And it's a farce that we evolved from monkeys ! The theory says "COMMON ANCESTOR " !

Answer 7

I don't, because I don't believe in science altogether, and its stupid to be cherry picking concepts from science that agree with my dogma.

Answer 8

I revere my monkey and ape ancestors.
Please do not vandalize the monkey shrine I have in my back yard.

Answer 9

I don't believe it, the word of God, the Bible, is my explanation.

Call my a nutcase or a Christ-fanatic but that's what I believe.

Answer 10

Not much...it seems very farfetched to me.
http://mlf1070.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/finding-god-in-physics/