What is the evidence for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

Question

What is the evidence for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

Answer 1

The history of life on earth (3.5 Bilion years old), all supports it...

There is no less evidence than the Theory of Gravity, and the Theory of Relativity (Light Speed)...

Answer 2

I think you need to read his "Origin of the Species" to see where he was coming from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dar...

Answer 3

everywhere.

do research.

Answer 4

He found evidence in indigenous birds on Madagascar (I think). Also, geological records, fossils, etc.

Answer 5

Go here for all the evidence needed.

http://www.talkorigins.org

http://www.aboutdarwin.com

Answer 6

I'm sure fossil helped.  Read the book

Answer 7

YOU and your parents (and their parents) are the evidence...(more specifically...your own unique gene combination...)

"Genetics" and how "brand new gene combinations" and "mixes" are passed on...

Evolution is also called "Natural Selection..."  They are the same meaning...which means...

Your parents, when they were born, did not know ahead of time who they would reproduce with...they pretty much (ask them yourself..."arranged marriages" that are set up since birth are very rare) randomly met and mated and reproduced...and YOU are the result of that reproduction...

Which means their specific unique gene combinations came to together and created a "brand new set" of genes...YOU...

And you will (or have) done the same with someone as yet unmet, or met, or whatever...but on and on and on it goes...

And whenever this happens...our species is slowly "evolving" (and by the way..."evolving" is simply another word for "changing") over a long period of time.

Over the course of hundreds and thousands of years...our species is slowly "changing" because of the mixing and remixing and "random" gene pairings that result in brand new "genetic traits" in the whole species...and everybody living today, has features and traits that did not exist in humans thousands of years ago...thus...Homo Sapiens became what we are today...Homo Sapien Sapiens (and we have to use the word twice because we have changed enough from the original "brainy" homo sapiens to make it necessary to add an extra "sapien" to the name of the species known today as modern man...(and woman)...

We (and all life forms) are constantly, slowly "changing," or...using another word for "changing" because they are the essentially the same word...we are...

"Evolving..."

Get it?

Answer 8

The evidence comes from a myriad of sources--DNA being one of the strongest, and Darwind didn't even know about that!  The fossil record provides evidence as well.  Additionally, the selective breeding we do in agriculture and horticulture is in line with evolution.  Carbon dating, geology, ecological biology--all of it points to very long periods of time with genetic changes bringing about new species.  A good book on the DNA proof is The Language of God.

Answer 9

Not a shred. It's all humbug.