Is there ANY proof of evoloution?

Question

Is there ANY proof of evoloution?

Answer 1

Evolution, the change in allele frequency in a population over time is a fact. Is that what you meant?

Answer 2

Yes, there is proof of evolution.  The theory of evolution was devised by Charles Darwin when he visited the Galapogos Islands of the coast of South America.  There he saw species of animals that were clearly related to species on the mainland, but who had developed different characteristics.  There was one species of bird on the island that was flightless.  However, it's cousin on the mainland still retained the ability of flight.

The thing to remember about evolution as it relates to religious beliefs, is that you can believe in the general evolution of life WITHOUT believing humans evolved from monkeys per se.  There is no absolute proof of this.

My wife studied Chemistry and Biology in college and she used to do a lot experiments with bacteria colonies.  Often times the goal was to select the specific genes they wanted to test and breed the bacteria so these genes were dominant.  Another friend is a grad student at UT Southwestern, and she spent an entire summer sorting fruit flies for much the same purpose.

Answer 3

um helloooooo! The existence of evolution is apparent with what we are currently doing now. IE: i am writing to you from across the world via a technology that wasn't made abundant until the last few decades! And that's merely 1 form of evolution. There are vast amounts of other 'outlets' to which the theory of evolution pertains to, so, i suggest you define your question to which 'evolution' you want proof of.

Although i don't support the accepted 'taught' theory of evolution, i still believe that evolution is very real, but due to our extremely limited understanding and means to measure such ongoing physiological, psychological & sociological (to name but a few) changes over periods of millennia of millennia of millennia... (so on & so forth), Have forced modern day scientists to make 'Calculated Guesses' and assume the attitude of those with 'God Complexes' to validate their claims of knowing how the world, with us in it, works.

Yes, 'Evolution' is real. We just dont know how real or which parts of us have evolved.  What we do have though, are lots and lots of fossils of such and such a species of mammal and/or animal. Oh and frozen men in ice that look like monkeys.

Answer 4

Look at the Galapagos Islands.  example: there are 13 species of birds that scientists have concluded came from one breed of finches.

I don't believe that man came from ape...but I do believe that over time, adaptation in order to survive in a different climate is a major key to the changes of a species.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

Answer 7

There is evidence and a mountain of evidence.  It is certainly "proof" enough for me.  If there was a jury, there would certainly be enough evidence for evolution to put the perp away for life.  You can snipe at every piece of evidence and pretend it doesn't exist but in fact evolution is the nearest thing to a fact that we have in this world.

Answer 8

None whatsoever, do you want a DVD to back my statement up????

Answer 9

yes,, please read this, evolution does not have to mean changing from one species to another,, it just means change,, 3000 years ago the average size of a man was 5ft tall with a shoe size of about 6/7. today the average man is in fact 6ft tall with a shoe size of abot 10/12,, we are in fact changing,

Answer 10

true darwinian evolution is a myth... we have machine evolution... but evolution isnt possible, either the new combination of DNA works, or it doesnt... gene splicing has been happening in wombs for millions of years..that is our evolution..

Answer 11

yeah, about 100,000 or so years of human evolution alone. Evolution is not one of those things you can see in progress, unless the organism has an extremely short life span and you can see hundreds of generations. It takes thousands of years for natural selection to work unless there is some strange phenomena that occurs that speeds up the process (the black/white moth during the Industrial Revolution in England)

Answer 12

No. Of course not. All those fossils and bones they found were created by the plastic that the cave men invented!!

Answer 13

Sure is....mainly fossils.  We can see that things look different to how they do today, we can see changes in many plants and animals ie. the earliest angiosperms only had flowers like that of magnolia, but now there is massive variety and can see how new features became more common.

We see how things died out eg dinosaurs is probably the most well known.

We can see features in plants and animals that are not used anymore eg vestigial legs in whales and snakes

In embryos we find it incredibly hard to see the difference between a human, chiken or fish in the early stages....as they all look similar.

We share a lot of DNA with other things eg we have 50% of our DNA in common with a banana and about 97% with chimpanzees....

We can see things like the forearm in whales, bats, birds, human, horse etc having the same basic makeup eg 1 upper bone, 2 lower bones and multiple wrist and hpalanges but they have "evolved" into very different things in these animals.

We can see how similar things have occurred in plants or aniamals that are very widely separated in either space (distance) or "ancestor" eg cacti in Americas and Succulents in Africa or fish and dolphins/whales having similar shapes etc or flying in insects, birds, pterodactlys and bats.  They changed over time to do the same thing via different ways.

ummmm thats some of the evidence....when you actually see fossils and see the evidence you can see how evolution actually fits in.  Most people who don't beleive in it have blinders on really, and are 99% hooked up on the human part....(ie they don't like that part and chose to ignore everything as a result).

Answer 14

Of course, otherwise there would be nothing mentioned about it.  When the idea was first put forward there was an outcry.   Now, however, it is an accepted normality. You need to really read up on evolution to find out what it is all about and decide for yourself what you want to believe.

Answer 15

Yup.  Here's one: you know how you have to get a flu shot every year?  That's because of evolution.  The flu virus changes a bit each year- it evolves- so the vaccine you got last year won't work this year.  There's actually several flu viruses, and a different one is prevailent each year, but that is why you don't just get five or ten or whatever and then are good.  This is also why there are now drug-resistant strains of diseases like TB.  The drugs killed off the germs that were susceptible, and now it's only the stronger germs that are left in that strain.  And this is also why the bird flu is so scary.  It's not too bad right now, because it doesn't transmit to humans easily.  A bit of an evolutionary tweak in the wrong direction, though, and we get to relive the flu epidemics of the early 20th century.

It's easiest to see evolution in action in viruses and bacteria because they have such short life-spans.  It works the same way with higher life forms, like humans, but we live so long that it's harder to see the changes.  Evolution undeniably exists, though, because we can see it happen, either in sufficiently short-lived species or in our fossil record.  The only thing under question is the exact mechanism by which it works- kind of like how we know there's gravity, but we're still working on how exactly it works.

Answer 16

There is not only evidence, there are huge amounts of different kinds of converging evidence, all pointing toward the same thing. Evolution from a common anscestor. This is one of the things that is the most certain in all of science. There simply is no question about whether it happened. The question are all about the specifics of *how* it happened.

It can't be avoided if you actually look at the evidence and have any understanding of how science works. This is worth your time to do.

I used to be a believer who argued against evolution, until I started seeing that the suppposed evidence against is flimsy and not accepted by the *vast* majority of real scientists. If you are afraid of letting go of your beliefs, I can't blame you. That is a scary thing to even consider, and it isn't an easy path. It turned out to be a very fulfilling one for me, and others I know who've taken it.

Good luck in your journey. Be willing to follow the real evidence wherever it takes you.

PS To another post: Evolution is just a theory in the same sense that gravity is just a theory. I wouldn't advise jumping off a tall building while you insist that gravity is ONLY a theory. That is simply a misunderstanding of what the word theory means in the context of science.

Answer 17

evolution cannot be proved but natural selection can.

Please dont have kids!

Answer 18

Far more proof than the existence of god.

Answer 19

not on my watch. lol. *hugs&kisses*

Answer 20

There is a theory

Answer 21

Apparently Humans have 99.5% genes the same as chimpanzees, and we have opposing thumbs also. I watched on the TV that cooked human flesh is supposed to smell, and taste like pork.

We look like chimps, but have the skin of pigs.

In my opinion, a monkey jumped out of a tree a few thousand years ago, and got it on with a pig.

Evolution according to Wonkyfella.

Answer 22

Not a shred of proof.

Answer 23

The evidence for it vastly outweighs the pure conjecture proposed by those who refuse to accept what's d**n near obvious.  

Occam's Razor:

"One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything"

Answer 24

A bit more proof than there is for the existance of God.

Answer 25

It depends on your definition of proof, but I would give evolution considerably more credence than anything that smacks of the supernatural. Read Richard Dawkins 'The Selfish Gene', 'The Blind Watchmaker', 'The God Delusion' and if you feel like some hard biology 'The Extended Phenotype'. I think Dawkins makes the argument quite nicely myself. If someone is trying to push creationism, then please feel free to ask the question, 'is there ANY proof of god?'.