Has anyone actually proven evolution?

Question

From what I understand, all science up to a certain point is based on a theory by one man. A theory that was not proved by science and to this day still has not been proved by science. Has anything actually evolved?

Answer 1

From what you understand, it's the theory of ONE man?

You're living under a rock! The modern synthesis of evolution and genetics is the result of the research of thousands of scientists, many of whom made contributions surpassing Darwin. Even before Darwin's day evolution was a hot topic. Darwin's contribution was the concept of natural selection.

A theory that was NOT proved by science?

Evolution has been confirmed from so many studies that it's no longer questioned by those who are familiar with the work. Your argument here comes from people who don't understand evolution (ignorance), from those who mis-characterize evolution (liars), or from those who simply refuse to believe it (dogmatists).

Has anything actually evolved?

The first thing to understand is that individuals do not evolve; it's populations of individuals that evolve, and, yes, we have seen populations evolve.

Answer 2

No, evolution hasn't been proven yet.

That is why it is called the Theory of Evolution.

There is good evidence for it, but not enough for it to be universally accepted or "proven".

It may never be "proven" because it is so hard to test.

However, just because it hasn't been "proven," as such, does not mean that it isn't real. It merely means that more research needs to be done.

(Also, I'm not sure that proven is a word - spell-checker doesn't like it.)

Answer 3

What "kind" of Proof- do you need? The Evolutionary Process takes a LOT of time...- So it's not like someone walking around today- is gonna hand it to Us.  As a result, we have to go by the skeletal remains of things (animals; birds; Human's, etc.) that once lived- to look for any changes over Time. If You go by THAT criteria- then there is LOTS of hard Evidence that proves Evolution- because it means that ANYONE can establish a "Timeline" of how Beings changed over the eons... In other words, Evolution stopped being a Theory a LONG time ago... NOW we have to figure out WHERE it's all Going.....  :)

Answer 4

Pope John Paul the Great thought so.  He openly agreed that evoloution is a fact.

Answer 5

you know the thing about evolution is this. when was life created? when did non-life turn into life? its like saying a rock turned into a snail. that's one problem about evolution that can't be explained and is the reason its still a theory

Answer 6

The problem is there are two distinct forms of evolution that are rolled into one theory....there's evolution we can prove, observe and test like bacteria, flu viruses, animal breeding, etc.. which is scientifically sound and then there's a historical evolution or macro-evolution that attempts to explain how all life on earth arose from common ancestors all the way back to the first life forms on earth.

Evolution does not explain how they arose from non-living materials...that is a separate field of abiogenesis which has yet to demonstrate that it is possible. The Law of Biogenesis states that all life comes from previous living things and has never been disproved.  

Macro-evolution has never been observed over millions of years of time, conflicts with known parameters of genetics and the rarity of beneficial mutations it requires, is not supported by fossil evidence nor can it be experimentally tested...it is based on indirect observations and assumptions which are not verifiable and false according to many other evidences.

Polonium "halo's" in Pre-Cambrian rocks show they were formed almost instantly....not over millions of years of time through gradual cooling which falsifies the accepted ages of the rocks and fossils they and others contain. (Halos.com)

There are many thousands of cave paintings, drawings, petroglyphs, fabrics, temples and artifacts which show man and dinosaurs co-existed until fairly recent times.

Red blood cells and soft tissues recently found in several T-Rex and other fossil bones indicate they did not go extinct 70 million years ago but were buried quite recently.

Answer 7

Viruses and bacteria evolve all the time.  That is how they become resistant to our antibiotics and vaccinations.  Things evolve when they need a certain trait to survive.  In order for certain viruses/bacteria to survive, they need a human host.  When they can't use the human host because of antibiotics and vaccines, they evolve into a form that is not affected by those antibiotics and vaccines.

Answer 8

evolution occurs everyday, every minute, every second......

take the mp3 player for example........ it the mp4 player now.....

just like us humans.... medicine that can cure you in 5minutes....

and we...... well....... look at us from the 1960's... flower power is dead... we are too busy in our own worlds, learning something new everyday....

so evolution will never die

Answer 9

Evolution is a fact as far as the people who matter are concerned. The evidence is so overwhelming it really does beggar belief that anyone could be opposed to, at least on scientific grounds.

Answer 10

Uh, sorry, but you don't understand very well.

ALL SCIENCE based on a theory by one man?

No.

Here's a couple of web sites that discuss evolution and the overwhelming evidence supporting it:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life...

Answer 11

Has anything actually evolved? Yes, every living thing around you is an example of evolution. I'll use drug resistance as an example of evolution through natural selection. Assume that there is a colony of bacteria. In some individuals of the population, a mutation occurred that made those particular bacteria resistant to an antibiotic. When antibiotics are added to the bacteria's environment, the bacteria with the non-mutated gene will die, but the bacteria with the mutant gene will survive. This is a huge selective advantage - the individuals with the mutated gene will likely be the ones that reproduce successfully and increase in number within the population.

This fits all the criteria of natural selection. Was there a variation within individuals of a population? Yes, the mutated gene. Were some variations inherited by the offspring? Yes, the individuals with the mutated gene passed on that trait to their offspring. Were some individuals able to survive and reproduce better than other individuals? Yes, the non-mutated bacteria died while the mutated individuals survived. Was the differential survival and reproduction (Darwinian fitness) influenced by the heritable traits of individuals? Yes, since the non-mutated bacteria couldn't survive, their numbers in the population dropped while the mutated bacteria increased.

Putting it all together, the nature of the bacterial population as a whole will gradually change. What is evolution? The genetically based change in a population's traits over time. Did the bacteria evolve? Yes.

Keep in mind that science is an active process of discovery, being testable and refutable, but NEVER provable!  Theory does not mean 'hypothesis' or 'guess.' Instead, a scientific theory is an organized set of related ideas, and the term does not imply tentativeness or lack of certainty. Scientific theories are either accepted or not, in which case you'd present an alternative testable hypothesis (which can be falsified). An alternative that is based on a belief system is not a testable hypothesis, and is not science. So is evolution a valid scientific theory? Yes, it meets all the criteria, and is supported by mountains of evidence from numerous areas - fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, and the molecular record - and that is why the theory is accepted by the vast majority of scientists.