Has evolution been completely proven?
 

Or does it remain a theory? Why not LAW of evolution? Like the Law of Physics, etc?

Hey it beats Creationism any day when it comes to logic....so as far as I'm concerned its been proven.

For humans, it's still a theory.. there's that pesky 'missing link'

Yes. It is now a fact.

Evolution means slow change.
To prove evolution on a laboratory you're gonna need many millions of years.

The theory of evolution is proven, and re-proven. The fossil records prove it, the living animals prove it, and the DNA proves it.

All the pieces to the billion year old natural history puzzle haven't been found yet --but most of the major rules, and some of the big events, are known.

Creationism is now called "Intelligent Design," that's the latest marketing spin on an absurd idea that only modern Luddites believe.

we have enough laws to confuse ourselves with

You can always tell who didnt finish highschool and definitely never attended a college course on this board.

yes, evolution has already been proven since Darwin proposed this theory..it beats the genesis version anyway.

Who cares ? One day or another we will still die :)

Yes just look at all the slimeball slugs on here...

Just kiddding people!

Then what do you call Lucy?

whoa boy....

you can not "prove it," like say Netwon's laws of mechanics...
or search for evidence that might prove a cohesive theory string theory in quantum physics...

you can get a magic eight-ball answer "all signs lead to yes..."

The number of observations which confirm the concept of evolution is overwhelming. But I'm not sure that can amount to "proof" so long as there is still disagreement among scientists as to the precise mechanism involved in evolution.

last I read, there wasn't enough of her skull to actually determine what she is...
other than she doesn't seem to be a true ancestor of humans ;)

Well said...

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Creationism is now called "Intelligent Design," that's the latest marketing spin on an absurd idea that only modern Luddites believe.

Critical thinking is the highest form of thinking. I like to question things before I 'believe' in it. Your ad hominem attacks seem to suggest your own feelings of mental inferiority. :1orglaugh

unfortunately as any person who has taken high school science class will tell you fossil records, living animals and DNA are not proof of evolution they are imperical evidence which support the theory.

The only valid proof would be observing the changes in a species over time.
So until time travel is invented evolution will never be proven.

There are a lot of highly respected scientist and professional people believe that God created the universe (including Albert Einstein). This belief/theory is what Creationism ('inteligent design') truly is.

In the mean time, it sure beats an unexplained benevolent force / entity "creating" everything. Though if you put evolution and "intelligent design" side by side, it becomes pretty clear which one sounds like unfounded rubbish.

It's funny watching all the scientifically illiterate, god created everything, blissfully ignorant monkey's coming out to play...

The bottom line is there is not one single objection to evolution that hasn't been discredited and responded to dozens of times... by these idiots just never give up. :1orglaugh

That is precisely what is studied on a daily basis. However, those studies take place on organisms that exist in extremely large populations, with very short lifespans, so as to exaggerate the effects.

It's called 'culturing'. Biologists study the evolution and mutation of bacteria and various single-celled organisms constantly.

Basically, the ID brigade have all said "Okay, fine, we give up. Evolution is real... but a HIGHER INTELLIGENCE designed it!" with the obvious implicaiton that the higher intelligence is supposed to be God.

Of course, it goes right back to the same primate insticts where primitive man was convinced that angry sky gods cause the heavens to crack open and cry tears of anger. Water from the sky, the gods are angry! Run Grok, hide in the cave! Nggganaaahhh!

In many cases, I've started to encourage them.

No, seriously. The economy ain't that shit hot to begin with. The less GOOD competition, the better. Let the peons cling to their belief as a substitute for reason... I'll be walking away with their money, their jobs, or both. :winkwink:

Hey ID guys! I bet God thinks that... uh... MATH is all bullshit too! Most of our math today is either from arabs or 'old europe' anyways! Run with it! :thumbsup :1orglaugh

I heard a TV pastor say the other nite that dinosour fossils where PLACED there by god for us to find and the world is still only a few thousand years old.. Yeah right,

It's funny how we all become curious about god and evolution only AFTER we get tired of masturbating.

its just as hard to believe that there was a big bang and this world/planet was spontaneously created and then we evolved into what we are and there is no higher power involved and life is completely useless... no purpose at all... we are just highly evolved mammals who eat sleep shit then die. no afterlife no nothing. consume fuck die thats it - its all coincidence.

as it is to believe that God created everything.

I went to this thing called Alpha and basically the authenticity of the bible etc has been validated in many ways etc...

I'm not saying that I believe 100% in either theory but I agree each theory is pretty hard to believe.

I also know that if you believe in god and there turns out there IS a god you are set :) You might as well believe in god since you have nothing to lose and everything to gain... :2 cents:

If you made evolution a law, there would be too many arrests.

Unless you don't consider either
a) giving up your free will and living a lifetime of guilt and servitude, or
b) living a life of 100% pure hypocrisy
... to be 'something to lose'. :2 cents:

Majority of Americans Reject Theory of Evolution

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/ar...24100409990019

51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.

Chyna's clit evolved :thumbsup
http://www.devilsdesign.com/cynaclit.jpg

Actually you should be saying that if you put evolution theory (darwinism) and Genisis theory (biblism) against each other both have critical flaws.

Darwin's theory of evolution when first created was predicated on an assumption that God does not exist. The purpose evolution was to explain how we came into being by truly random events.

both Biblism and Darwinism are dependent on you ignoring the universe as a whole to establish their validity.

Biblism ignore all history which contradicts concept that God waved his hands and created the earth in 6 days.

Darwinism ignores the fact that it is statistically impossible (1:16.7 billion) that the "big bang" not only made carbon the dominate element but threw off the exact amount that would allow intelligent life to form (to much or to little and we have a universe where pond scum is the only life that exists)

Darwin doesn't address how life started it addresses how life evolved once started. It doesn't have anything to do with God.

Also to say that it is purely random is ignoring a whole part of the theory. Yes mutations the raw material of evolution are random, but the strength of the theory of evolution is natural selection, the fittest organisms in an environment are those most likely to reproduce and continue. If the environment changes then different characteristics are selected for.

The Bible has critical flaws because you can't prove that it is false. If you find a critical flaw in Darwin's theory then you'll win the next Nobel prize in science. No one with an ounce of credibility has been able to find a *critical flaw* in evolution, in spite of over a century of trying. Remember when Darwin wrote this book we didn't even know about chromosomes and DNA and these huge advances in science could have easily discredited Darwin's work and shown us a new way. All they have done is reinforced his ideas in GRANITE.

The beauty of science is that theories often have a short lifespan, someone comes along and proves something convincingly wrong and the theory falls apart. Maybe this will one day happen to evolution too, but we've been waiting almost 150 years.

Wasn't this covered in Evolution Schmevolution on The Daily Show a while back?

It's living in the white house.

lol good point

You missed the point completely the enviroment that allows natural selection is statistically impossible. Increase or decrease the percentage (1.3 % high side) of carbon created by the big bang and environment prevents the evolution of anything greater that single celled organisms.


your doing the same thing Darwin did, ignoring the universe as a whole to validate your prefered theory.

Afterlife is just man's vanity. That's all it is. And religion is just a phony bribe for that vanity.

Creationism and Intelligent Design are not properly theories. Theories are backed up by logic and facts. Creationism and Intelligent Design are faith and dogma based, not science/ fact/ logic based.

You have alot to lose. If you live your life for some phony hereafter that never happens --you will have wasted your life.

I'm delighted to report that I am in the elite 15 percent.

By your restrictive definition, can ANYTHING be proven?