Did evolution reallly occur?

Question

or were we transported to earth from outer space?.

Answer 1

Yes, evolution has occurred will continue to occur it is a never ending process.   Everything constantly evolves to achieve an optimum state of perfection.

Answer 2

I'm going to try to keep this really short. The first thing that comes to mind is the Miller-Urey experiment. Feel free to look it up on google, but to sum it up they created a closed experiment including all the known compounds present in early earth (eg. water, nitrogen, carbon, etc.). They had a electrical probe to simulate lightning, a heated area and a cooling area. The system was let alone to sit for some time (I don't remember the time period) and the result was adenine was created. This is one of the 4 essential bases part of DNA's structure.

I find this very interesting. Over time, and by chance, certain event occurred that lead to the making of a single cell organism with the ability to reproduce. A micelle (a fat droplet bubble) could have been the beginning for what made the cell membrane etc..

One beneficial event lead to another and eventually from that beginning cell there were several different paths created leading to the evolution of various species. These species then would go on to develop specific mutations in their DNA, and over time these mutations would lead to speciation; the creation of a new species (so long at the mutations were beneficial and advantageous for the species survival in there environment.

Answer 3

I do think so. Evolution can actually be seen occurring in real time, for example with the HIV virus. Hundreds of different strains exist.

Answer 4

All we can say is that all evidence points to evolution.

If we were transported to earth from outer space, then we would not share DNA with the other primates.

If by "we" you include the other primates, then still, if all primates were transported to earth from outer space, than they would not share DNA with all other living creatures ... animals, plants, that mould that grows on bread, blue-green algae in the oceans, etc.

So if you're asking if all living species somehow developed on another planet and were transported in some massive ship from outer space, and the pilots of this ship were also clever enough to manufacture and bury millions of fossils around the earth, in just the right parts of the planet and just the right layers of rock to make it *LOOK* like we are all the products of evolution here on earth ... then that is certainly possible.

Or if you are asking if primitive life was transported to earth from outer space about 3.5 billion years ago, and then allowed to evolve into what it is today, then that is also possible.

... But in that case evolution still occurred.

Answer 5

Evolution is real!