What is your reaction about the evolutional issues today? how does it affect you?

Question

thanks for your answers.. i'd be very happy reading your open answers.. c:

Answer 1

As a zoologist, a day does not go by that I am not defending evolutionary theory from attacks; both religious and post-modern/relativistic. It seems very few understand the theory of evolution by natural selection, or wish to deal with it's implications.

Answer 2

I'm totally amazed that some can still doubt the case for evolution in the light of DNA evidence supporting each & every step of the evolutionary process.  Prior to the discovery of DNA evidence supporting evolution one could be justifiably skeptical of anthropological discoveries & the hypothesis developed from studies of fossiles & bones, but DNA science has filled in all but the most minor of the missing links.

Research into the human & other genomes indicates a series of switches in most genomes that can be turned on or off to produce a different species with that genome... now identifying these switches will take time & effort.  In addition we have found the human & other genomes are composed of nearly 3% virus & virus fragments that infected some ancient ancestor & changed  genes that were passed down to ensueing offspring.

The virus may be both our worst enemy & best friend. It saddens me that so many seek to ignore science in the name of religion, when in fact the two views are not mutually exclusive.

Answer 3

i dont care and i dont believe in evolutional issues because im not a monkey so it doesnt affect me. those who believe it well have flees bitting them and eat bananas everyday.

Answer 4

I sometimes feel very strongly against those who don't "believe in" the evolutionary theory, merely because they want to deny that they are just animals or because it sounds too complicated.  When governments push religious ideas (like creationism) that have no basis in science to be taught alongside the theory, that's when the line is drawn.  When museums blatantly lie to endorse a ridiculous pseudoscience, that is also when the line is drawn.  All evidence points to evolution; microevolution is fact, and macroevolution takes a little abstract thinking but for most it is not all that difficult to fathom.  Life changes; that is fact.  Evolution logically explains how this happens.

Answer 5

IF the complete theory of evolution is true (not just parts of it), then it still does not affect us in any significant way.  The whole premise of the theory is that it takes millions of years--and none of us will live long enough to see any noticable change.

What we can do today is concern ourselves with where we are and where we're going, not where we've been.  I know that it is important to know where we've been to serve as a guide to where we're going, but recorded history goes back as far as is necessary.

Answer 6

Since I'm an evolved result of some element getting bumped wrong (or right) sometime, somewhere, somehow I find the  evolution theory quite comfortable.

Answer 7

I suppose you mean evolution  or evolutionary.  Anyone that doubts evolution is woefully ignorant about the world around them.  Plain and simple.

It doesn't affect me one tiny bit except that I sometimes enjoy debating.  But it doesn't really affect my life

Answer 8

Your belief in something doesn't affect the actual truth in response to the first answer.  Evolution was obviously true 150 years ago when it was first theorized and it has been backed up by mountains of evidence.  Those that don't want to open their eyes can live in the darkness of ignorance.  The truth is enlightening by definition.  I think a million years ago, our ancestors were learning about the earth and it is this spirit of discovery that should be encouraged.  Those that think they have all the answers, whether they are from the religious or scientific, are the ignorant ones.  That being said, the theory of evolution is as obviously true as is plate techtonics if not more so, yet it still fits the definition of theory.