Question:
So how do You prove evolution?
Miley Cyrus
2014-03-31 07:47:01 UTC
Fossils only prove extinction. DNA could be proof for common design. Flu doesn't prove mammals evolve. Scientists haven't observed mammals evolving. So what proves evolution?
28 answers:
Maurog IV
2014-03-31 07:48:16 UTC
DNA couldn't be proof of "common design" because of genetic markers. Unless you mean evolution when you say "common design", in which case you should call it common descent.



Fossils prove much more than just extinction, since they can be dated to draw the evolutionary timeline (which matches the timeline we get from DNA markers).



And of course we observe mammals evolving. Lions and tigers are just one example of species on the verge of speciation.
biggalloot2003
2014-03-31 07:48:54 UTC
Let's try to speak as educated people. There is evolution and then there is the Theory of Evolution. The theory explains the observation.



Long before Darwin people noticed that the older the strata, the stranger the fossils. A horse from a recent strata,looked like a horse. Fossils from earlier strata were different. The older you got, the more different they were. Clearly, animal fossils demonstrated change over time. That is evolution.



The question was why did they appear to change over time. Did they really change? Did old fossils just look different?



It was determined that fossils throughout the world demonstrated the same changes over time so it was not an alteration of the fossils. Darwin presented a theory that explained how and why the changes had occurred. And his theory has been proven.



The trouble is that you cannot see the proof by looking in your bible. You will need to read books with big words and no pictures. Get over it.





BTW - Yes they do watch animals evolve. They just don't mention it in Sunday school.
wombatfreaks
2014-03-31 08:19:57 UTC
There is never any substitute for understanding other than years of work and study, so you will not likely find proof of anything on Yahoo Answers, or in one book or magazine, or from one conversation.



A solid knowledge of pastry cooking, aviation, law, accounting, teaching, automotive mechanics, dog grooming, optometrists, and orchid growing takes study, hard work, discussion, and practice. Why should it be any different in the field of biology?



Recently I was listening to some news on the missing Malaysian aircraft,they got the opinion of experts on China, lawyers, religious scholars, military personnel and more. But the program only had one person on who seemed to know much about how a pilot operates a jet during take off and what the procedures are in the event of a mechanical failure. Why so many people on that clearly could not know what they were talking about?
anonymous
2014-03-31 08:05:00 UTC
This is the reason why atheists have a problem with Christianity, it encourages the most stupid beliefs that people cling to, no matter how many times you tell them they're wrong.



Evolution is proven, it's so obvious that it is, google it. You could say that God still created each creature, but evolution is the way it works. It's not a debate, unless you want a philosophical debate on whether the sky is blue.
marsel_duchamp
2014-03-31 07:54:24 UTC
Your misunderstanding and bad interpretation of the data does not invalidate natural selection. I will go with the findings of people who study fossils, DNA, etc rather than some know nothing on Y! R&S.

And why aren't you asking this in the biology section or some other forum if you are truly interested in answers? As usual with evolution deniers the dishonesty is obvious.
anonymous
2014-03-31 20:55:05 UTC
DNA could be proof for common design."We also harbor dead genes that came from other species, namely viruses. Some, called 'endogenous retroviruses' (ERVs), can make copies of their genome and insert them into the DNA of species they infect. (HIV is a retrovirus.) If the viruses infect the cells that make sperm and eggs, they can be passed on to future generations. The human genome contains thousands of such viruses, nearly all of them rendered harmless by mutations. They are the remnants of ancient infections. But some of these remnants sit in exactly the same location on the chromosomes of humans and chimpanzees.Evolution is proven, it's so obvious that it is, google it. You could say that God still created each creature, but evolution is the way it works. It's not a debate, unless you want a philosophical debate on whether the sky is blue.
?
2014-03-31 13:09:07 UTC
No, fossils, despite the systematic RARITY of fossilization itself for any given species, prove a steady progress from basal to derived forms. DNA evidence provides evidence that sections of code are 'reused'. Biogeography supports this. Atavisms support this. Homologous and analogous structures support this.



@ Witness: your halucinations do not constitute proof. Drug therapies? Really? Wow, you seriously need to be committed.



@ Geessewereabove: Your repeating that does not make it true. Your ignoring of the true story of Dr. Mary Schweitzer's B-Rex (the dino that creationists love to scream had 'blood') - that it contained collagen-like fragments of blood vessel PROTEINS - does not make it true. Your lack of desire to actually READ the scientific literature, which has been made freely available to you, is something you should truly be ashamed of.



@ACXX: I'd suggest you attempt to have a clue what you're talking about when it comes to radiometric dating and geochronology in general, but we both know that's not gonna happen, right? Of course we can't use C14 dating for fossils. And we don't. Scientists KNOW this; we're surprisingly... not as stupid as you seem to make us out to be. But of course you're not going to look up K-Ar dating, or U-Pb dating, or Sm-Nd dating, or magnetostratigraphy, or biostratigraphy, or any other geochronologic methods.
anonymous
2014-03-31 07:53:04 UTC
"DNA could be proof for common design."



ERVs, which you know nothing about it and you never will know anything about it because you're too lazy to look things up, can't be explained by your magical designer.



Growing up, educating yourself, and facing facts is a wonderful thing, but god-soaked cowards don't want to do any of this.



"The Inquisition", this is not for you because you wouldn't understand it. This is for people who unlike you, are not afraid of science.



"We also harbor dead genes that came from other species, namely viruses. Some, called 'endogenous retroviruses' (ERVs), can make copies of their genome and insert them into the DNA of species they infect. (HIV is a retrovirus.) If the viruses infect the cells that make sperm and eggs, they can be passed on to future generations. The human genome contains thousands of such viruses, nearly all of them rendered harmless by mutations. They are the remnants of ancient infections. But some of these remnants sit in exactly the same location on the chromosomes of humans and chimpanzees. These were surely viruses that infected our common ancestor and were passed on to both descendants. Since there is almost no chance of viruses inserting themselves independently at exactly the same spot in two species, this points strongly to common ancestry."

-- Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist and author of Why Evolution is True, an excellent book about the evidence for evolution which "The Inquisition" will never read because education makes "The Inquisition" cry.
Simon T
2014-03-31 07:51:42 UTC
Fossils show more than extinction. Or are you claiming that all the new fossil species that we see were created ex-nilo? The fossil record clearly shows species changing over time, adapting to their environmental changes and filling evolutionary niches.



The only reasonable conclusion from this is that evolution is real.





Oh, and we have seen mammals evolve. Look up speciation events.
David
2014-03-31 09:32:54 UTC
We are all witness to THE BIBLE' teaching of evolution through natural selection. As if everyone decended from Adam there would still be but one race. Those that say evolution is an lie TEACH that GOD is an mutant. With our genetic link to cain by his father the serpent/caveman do we as modern men and women mutate and evolve. This serpent/caveman was an hybredizer. Whithin that final ones genetic code where genetics from all previous types of cavemen.

JESUS BLESS YOU

david stotler
anonymous
2014-03-31 07:48:30 UTC
The short answer is: you don't -- proofs are for mathematics; for everything else, there's varying levels of evidence.



That said, the evidence in support of evolution by natural selection is overwhelming and unequivocal, spanning across multiple disciplines and including genetic sequencing, species distribution, comparative anatomy, vestigial structures, etc.



In short, evolution is one of the most well-supported concepts in the history of human inquiry.



However, even with all that going for it, scientists' support of and agreement with evolution is still provisional, and subject to change should new information come to light -- one fossilized rabbit in pre-Cambrian rock strata would be all it would take. Evolutionary theory could and would be overthrown and replaced literally overnight, if (and only if) some competing theory was advanced with even MORE explanatory power, and that theory survived critical peer review.



Because that's how science works -- and, not coincidentally, WHY it works.
Daniel
2014-03-31 08:20:40 UTC
This "observational science" nonsense that Creationists attempt to squeeze our levels of understanding into a box is troubling.



Evolution when it was a hypothesis predicted several things, and gave a method for falsification. All predictions came true, and it wasn't falsified, thereby making it a theory.



The facts we have available point to evolution (appendix, wisdom teeth, to name two things) and when creationists talk about the "complexity of the eye" our eye pales in comparison to the eyes of fish and certain insects.



Go read a science book sometime.
Grinning Football plinny younger
2014-03-31 07:57:12 UTC
You become a scientist, or ask a scientist - it also helps you observe faster living species such a butterflies or beetles and work out how the changes are an advantage.
ACXX
2014-03-31 08:07:44 UTC
It's funny a scientist puts a few skulls of humans and monkeys then say "this is evolution" with nothing to back their claim, then every atheist automatically accepts it. Talk about blind faith! And that's just one of the millions of examples.



Don't even start on carbon dating for fossils, that was proven wrong years ago!
WENDEL HOMES
2014-03-31 07:52:13 UTC
Carbon dating of fossils and the noted changes in the bone structure of fossils that can link together into definite genus.
?
2014-03-31 07:49:23 UTC
Only mathematical theories are 'proven'



You gather evidence to support scientific theories. Evolution has mountains of evidence.



The correlation of the geographical distribution of species and their DNA content is all the evidence we need to be sure that evolution is true.
?
2014-03-31 07:56:58 UTC
you dont prove "evolution" you manipulate facts, lie through your teeth and censor everything that competes against it, then you proclaim boldly with mind control and sometimes drug therapies to deceive students into believing there is not God because the controlled facts are what is the truth. its a total lie.



p.s. i wouldnt say anything close to this, if i didn't KNOW there was a God. there is absolutely NO doubt that i have seen Jesus *having 3 visions, and i was visited by an angelic being.

there is no proof in all of sicence or psychology that can change my mind. God is real, even if the whole world imagines something falsely.
geessewereabove
2014-03-31 07:59:53 UTC
There is NOT ANY! Several years ago the Atheists were required to bring out ALL their Proofs and ALL tested to be fakes! The oldest fossil was only 6,000 years old! And lots of the bones they used claiming Millions of years old, where so young they still had blood in them!
?
2014-03-31 07:52:12 UTC
become a Scientist
?
2014-03-31 08:15:38 UTC
Maybe you should ask this question in the science section.
?
2014-03-31 07:55:36 UTC
Fossil record actually supports the idea of creation more than evolution. Cambrian explosion.
anonymous
2014-03-31 07:50:04 UTC
its pretty obvious you lack the intellectual capacity to absorb scientific fact...



maybe you should go play with your dolls princess.
Dogstar Ascendant
2014-03-31 07:48:07 UTC
"Scientists haven't observed mammals evolving."



Try again.
cryptic_non_sequitur
2014-03-31 07:59:23 UTC
science ignores the opinions of idiots ...
anonymous
2014-03-31 07:52:54 UTC
a cat gave birth to you
?
2014-03-31 08:16:54 UTC
"Fossils only prove extinction"





really?

what about horseshoe crab fossils?

cockroaches....

etc.
darwinsfriend3 AM
2014-03-31 08:23:27 UTC
I don't have to.

Its already een proven
Mutations Killed Darwin Fish
2014-03-31 07:48:49 UTC
Evolutionists are proof that faith can move mountains of obstacles and contrary evidence.


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