Evolution believers,What is there besides popular theories to back the idea of evolution?

"It is always talk no substance"

Your ignorance on the subject, and your enlightenment, is not my problem.

The evidence for evolution has primarily come from four sources:

1. the fossil record of change in earlier species

2. the chemical and anatomical similarities of related life forms

3. the geographic distribution of related species

4. the recorded genetic changes in living organisms over many generations

Evolutionary theory is the only explanation that can fully account for observations in the fields of biology, paleontology, anthropology, embryology and others

I know you won't look at the evidence. I know you are incapable of accepting any idea that does not match your fairy tale beliefs, but now I can feel good that I tried to educate you. If you choose not to follow the links or read the information available, that is on you. I made sure you had the opportunity.

EDIT: You want an example of evolution? Easy. E. coli evolved in a lab.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14094-bacter...

Here is a excerpt:

A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.

And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events.

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But sometime around the 31,500th generation, something dramatic happened in just one of the populations - the bacteria suddenly acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, a second nutrient in their culture medium that E. coli normally cannot use.

Indeed, the inability to use citrate is one of the traits by which bacteriologists distinguish E. coli from other species. The citrate-using mutants increased in population size and diversity.

"It's the most profound change we have seen during the experiment. This was clearly something quite different for them, and it's outside what was normally considered the bounds of E. coli as a species, which makes it especially interesting," says Lenski.

There are artifacts. We find paintings of animals in caves, suggesting that ancient humans worshiped animals. We found hieroglyphs in Egypt which suggests people worshiped celestial objects like the moon, sun, and planets. We find statues and figurines in the Middle East resembling humans which suggest those people worshiped anthropomorphic gods such as Baal, Asherah, and Ishtar. We find ancient texts which suggest that there is only one true god.

Artifacts don’t lie. They clearly illustrate that human superstition has evolved over the millennia. Humans went from a polytheism that worshiped animal gods, to gods in celestial objects, to gods with human traits, to a single god with human traits. Evolution is true. It is backed up with undeniable artifacts.

Edit: But we did come from lower life forms, and those lower life forms came from the evolution of the universe. Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution attempts to explain that fact.

Edit: It is not absurd, it is truth. The fact is we can trace our evolution from each and every one of our cell’s DNA. What is absurd is your refusal to accept fact.

Knowledge regarding evolution has already greatly improved our quality of life. It has produced tens of thousands of discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, archeology, agriculture, embryology, bacteriology… the list goes on.

Denying evolution now would be like denying the possibility of electronics after using a telephone, television and computer.

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Clearly you don't know what science is.

A scientific theory is based on facts.

Genetic research has proved Evolution is true.

The fossil record provides further evidence.

''Theory of Evolution''

noun

(biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of

plants and animals

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

''Scientific Theory''

noun

a theory that explains scientific observations.

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

guess what? according to the dictionary a scientific theory is a theory

now look up ''Theory''

Reality.

You do not know what a theory is

And it is extremely popular with the scientific community. Do you know who the scientific community is?

have you ever been to a dinosaur museum? there is all the evidence you need.

stay in my neighborhood for one week and see if we didn't evolve from an animal......