Why do you believe in evolution?

Question

I'm not putting this question up for debate ground or whatever.
Its to all of you who strongly believe in evolution. I'm just interested in what you believe to be proof for evolution.
Please give PROVEN FACTS not THEORY. So nothing like the big bang or whatever.
Please only answers to the question.

Thankyou to those who are actually answering the question and not making assumptions about me or what I believe in!

Answer 1

I don't believe in it, I accept it as a valid scientific theory

Answer 2

Cause I have to get a flu shot every year. Somehow it keeps changing. The news is constantly talking about a "new strain" of the bug.

Big Bang really doesn't have anything to do with Evolution. And a Theory is about facts. A Hypothesis is an assumption based on very little evidence which is what is usually the starting point that "evolves" into a theory.

It's hard to just answer your question directly when you don't seem to really grasp the idea of what a Theory is to begin with.

Answer 3

a: there is no such thing as "proven facts" in real science. Only evidence that appears to support a given theory. (there is a lot for evolution)
b: The big bang is an entirely seperate theory in an entirely separate field of science.
c: please look it up in a book or see some of the links posted by other people. You should learn about it before you decide it isn't true. That's called being open minded.

Answer 4

The big bang has nothing to do with evolution so get the theory right first before shooting your mouth off.

Evolution is how species change over time, not how they were created.

We have proof this has happened by means of the fossil records. We've seen examples of it in the Galapagos in which a type of finch has evolved to meet the specific food requirements of the island they're on.

It's the same family of finch, but they're beaks are different and they exist only there. On one island they've developed a larger, stronger, more powerful beak to crack seeds. While on another island they've developed delicate, slender beaks to probe for insects.

Answer 5

The fossil record is an observable, verifiable record of creatures that lived millions of years ago. Dating of these fossils is verifiable by a variety of methods and is accepted by competent researchers. For example--the 6 fossils they found in China--one was the smaller ancestor of T-Rex--(the teeth were the same, skeleture had the same features as that of t-rex--yet this little beast came some 60 million years before t-rex. The variety of marsupials found in Australia--to fill the biological niche filled by mammals on other continents--clearly biological niches filled by the existing species in isolation. Evolution can be observed, that is survival of the fittest-in hospital bacteria. Note the antibiotic resistant bacteria found in hosptials--some few bacteria that were genetically resistant to antibiotics survived antibiotic therapy--a those supplanted the antibiotic suseptible bacteria--one has to admit that these new bugs are different from the old--survival of the fittest in a chanllenging enironment. Man himself--there is a reasonable fossil record of prehominids (lucy) containing many characteristics of humans. Genetics--DNA of every living thing on the planet is 90% shared--that is the DNA in all of us is 90% the same thing--for example less than 2% of the DNA that we carry--makes us the species we are. This would argue that all life had a common genetic ancestor. I could go on and on--and these are all observable facts. These require no suspending of causality or use of magic powers.

Answer 6

For me, at it's core, evolution is just a broad theory to describe the nature of existence. You can specialize it for the study of biology, populations, language, chemistry and so forth, which is why it is such a profound theory, but at it's core is a very simple idea. Things are in constant motion, constantly changing. All things. There is abundant evidence to show that things are moving and changing. You are changing as you sit at your computer. To deny this seems nonsensical. So that is largely why I am a proponent of the theory of evolution.

Answer 7

It's not a matter of belief, it's a scientific theory backed up by hundreds of years of scientific discoveries, findings and knowledge in over a dozen fields of science. Listing all of the evidence here would require more space than is given, but I can recommend some books. "The Ancestor's Tale"-Richard Dawkins & "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"-Stephen Gould
If you really want to know about evolutionary theory, then go read those two books and you'll have the answers you claim to seek.

Answer 8

Well, I can't really answer this without theory. But I am wondering why you object to theory? Gravity, germs, molecules and cells all require theory for belief. Possibly, you need to understand what a theory is better. But I accept evolution because it is a well supported theory with lot of evidence from many fields of science. It has more evidence then most theories, including gravity.

Answer 9

Hard evidence. It is a fact that viruses and bacteria are evolving right now. This is why new vaccines must be created each year. The fossil evidence is a fact that shows evolution preserved in stone. . It is a fact that the earth is billions of years old, not 10,000, as shown by various scientific dating methods.l

Answer 10

The Big Bang has nothing to do with evolution. The Big Bang has to do with cosmological history and the foundations of physics, not biology. Evolution is a strictly biological theory.

Answer 11

To be honest, not having studied evolution in detail (I mean it's not what I took in university)--I don't really have much of a choice. It's either evolution or the Bible (being of a Christian upbringing), and based on what I'm reading evolution is just a lot less nonsensical. I mean, come on--a woman being created out of a man's rib?