How would you know evolution is real if someone didn't tell you?

Question

This was how a few folks answered my last question when I asked how thy would know that God existed if someone didn't tell them.

Thanks!

edit: sorry about the typo, it should say "they" not "thy"

Answer 1

Evolution is based on empirical evidence, and anybody who cares to study that evidence can understand how scientists have arrived at their conclusions.

Religion is based on arbitrarily deciding that "Truth" is enshrined in a moldy collection of texts written centuries ago, and that any empirical evidence which appears to contradict it is "wrong" by default. It's "the Bible speaks the truth," case closed, no need to think about anything or examine the facts for ourselves.

Answer 2

We if you've learned how simple bacteria reproduce, you would kind of come up with it yourself. When the reproduce, they create a new organism with a slightly different set of DNA then themselves so they will have a better chance of surviving. Say a disease wipes all bacteria with the A gene, all of the A gene bacteria die. The last surviving A genes produce a new B gene bacteria which is immune the A gene virus.

Now put that on a scale of complex organisms like dogs. No dog is alike because the species will have a higher chance of being wiped out by natural causes. Each new generation has a slight genetic advantage then the previous one. Even virus do this and they aren't even considered to be alive.

Learning about all of that, and how every animal in the world seems well suited for their part of the world, its pretty hard not to think evolution can be true.

Answer 3

How would you know if anything existed if somebody didn't tell you? You would be pretty much a blank slate. What seperates the human race apart from other mammals is it's sense of memory. We have a huge facination with documenting and exploring the past. As for evolution it's not really something percievable in one human lifetime, unless we all suddenly mutate due to the toxicity of the planet. Which could very well happen mind you, but the only visual record we have are the specemins that we dig out of the ground that record the evolution of the human race.

Answer 4

a million) Is a christian telling a biologist that evolution isn't real, like telling a mechanic that engines do not exist? The analogy isn't entirely off-factor - yet there is an important massive difference: the concept of species evolution remains theoretical; the life of engines has been firmly regularly happening or "proved". 2) Is telling the tens of 1000's of biologists, geologists (of which i'm one), virologists, palaeontologists, zoologists, medical psychologists, etc, that use evolutionary concept each day as element of their jobs that evolution isn't real, like telling a mechanic that engines do not exist. If this can be a real fact, you should be **okay conscious** that no matter if the concept of species evolution is precise does no longer impression the way you employ of it. Why? because we do not **understand** no matter if that's precise. it extremely is: you **do no longer** ought to trust in a medical concept to employ that concept, and - strictly speaking - a scientist **ought to** no longer trust in a concept. a medical concept is a partly-shown kind that aids human beings in those and different projects: a - devise new medical theories b - layout new medical experiments c - invent new technologies d - interpret records no matter if you've self belief interior the a particular medical concept, that concept can help you to interior the performance of all of those projects. certainly: no matter if that medical concept is precise, it may **nevertheless** help you to interior the performance of all of those projects. end: you illogically (and unscientifically) equate "application" with "accuracy". in basic terms because the concept of species evolution is functional does no longer recommend that that's precise. - Jim, Bach Sci Physics 1989

Answer 5

its all nature vs. nuture. People will always believe what they are taught to be true. Some are taught Darwinism is correct and others that religion and supreme beings is correct. The answer to both your questions is that we don't. Religious folk usually use the "blind faith" method and evolutionists usually go with so-called "facts" (I use the quotes b/c everything is a matter of interpretation and just because you "proved" it doesn't mean it necessarily won't get unproven with future technology).
To save you the trouble, I'll tell you I believe in both, so you don't use the "oh, she only said that because she's on that side of the fence" when interpretting my answer. People use what they are taught to descern their beliefs in life. Nothing just comes to a person, we stand on the shoulders of our predecesors and aim for higher understanding.

Answer 6

Once upon a time the human being had really large heads,a massive appendix & a hunch in the upper regions of the back.Over the thousands of years the head has shrunk,so too the appendix & the homosapien walks upright.Fossils dug up over time tells us this with our eyes & we can see the changes over time.The same can be said for other creatures of our planet.

Answer 7

Well, given what we know about genetics and heredity, evolution follows logically.

If a trait that increases fertility and/or the chance of survival is genetic, then OBVIOUSLY it's going to spread more than a trait that a trait that reduces the chance of survival (and if a genetic trait causes sterility, that's not gonna get passed on at all really, except through carriers).

Answer 8

Yes just look at Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Planet of the Apes nothing

Answer 9

This is a question that will hopefully be asked by all who have been informed of the theory of evoloution. Hopefully asking it here will engage others to experiment by considering the subject of origin as if they had no prior conceptions, if they have not already done so.

Answer 10

I am one that answered that way. And, no, evolution is NOT an observable fact. NO ONE has observed the spontaneous mutation that results in the creation of a new species. NO ONE has found a transitional fossil. NO ONE has created life from non-life. NO ONE has proven that things can move from disorder to order. These are THEORIES that people claim can be "proven" by looking backwards and trying to make things fit. I can make the same types of statements that are observable that point to a Creator. Not one of the people in this forum would believe in this if it were not taught to you in your classrooms at school.