Thread: Evolution is a Fact - Not a Theory

? But why are there still apes?

basically apes as we know them were not around before us. Whatever species came before us had many genetic mutations, the offspring that benefitted from brawn and dexterity eventually branched off and became modern apes, the mutations that had larger brain power eventually branched off and became human. Whatever the common ancestor was died dude to it not being able to compete with modern apes or us.

That is the general idea anyway

Originally Posted by Elwood

? But why are there still apes?

I think this is a variation on the Chewbacca defense.

Originally Posted by Mystic

Or maybe you have no idea about the structure of DNA at all. That must be it hey. That you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I forgive you.

Originally Posted by Mystic

The double slit experiment is just one revelation that does not conform to an evolution theory at all.

Either you're a troll, an idiot, or just plain batshit insane.

Surely you must know that you actually have no idea what you're talking about? Nobody making statements as ignorant as you could have possibly ever learned about DNA or evolution, so why do you pretend that you have? You can try and fool us but how you can also fool yourself, I have no idea.

Originally Posted by Xei

Either you're a troll, an idiot, or just plain batshit insane.

You have no idea how much I wonder this.

Am studying evolution in univeristy and while there are many facts in the fossil record i.e Lucy the most famous example showing the progression from apes to australopitheces to early homo to us..

Science cant not fully explain evolution because there is too many "gaps" in the fossil records to fully understand something to call it a fact..

So evolution fundamentally lies a theory...

Game over...

Can't say there are that many gaps. Yes, evolution is a fact - if it happened the way we understand right now is the theory. I made sure to add somethign like this to my sig xD

Originally Posted by rhythmofthecosmos

Am studying evolution in univeristy and while there are many facts in the fossil record i.e Lucy the most famous example showing the progression from apes to australopitheces to early homo to us..

Science cant not fully explain evolution because there is too many "gaps" in the fossil records to fully understand something to call it a fact..

So evolution fundamentally lies a theory...

Game over...

The fossil record is also no longer the only source of information--comparative DNA studies, as far as they've gone, have reliably corroborated the broad outlines of Darwinian evolution.

Dont trust pictures dude...

research deeper...

http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/gaps/gaps

and as for DNA samples.. yes they can be used and have been used to examine dates of fossils.. but you also need to consider that the DNA can be contaminated and does not give direct evidence for the origin of man mainly because it is very rare to find it on a sample..

Ohh and where do you think they get the DNA from...

Originally Posted by rhythmofthecosmos

Am studying evolution in univeristy and while there are many facts in the fossil record i.e Lucy the most famous example showing the progression from apes to australopitheces to early homo to us..

Science cant not fully explain evolution because there is too many "gaps" in the fossil records to fully understand something to call it a fact..

So evolution fundamentally lies a theory...

Game over...

If your standard is the the entire story of evolution be told, it will never be met. It would take a few billion years to tell. You don't have to have evidence of every single little step of something to know that it is a fact. We have enough information to know that evolution is a fact even though there are things we cannot explain, but lack of explanation on a few details is not automatically a complete incapacitation of knowledge.

Suppose you are in a room with one entrance. You see somebody stand outside of the entrance, and then you seen him walking toward the entrance. You close your eyes for a moment but hear him walking into the room. You open your eyes, and he is in the room. Then you know that he walked into the room. You consider it a fact. But that does not mean you can say specifically where he was on his fifth step. Not being able to answer that would not mean you don't know that he walked into the room.

Some scientists supposedly now consider evolution a law, but I am not totally sure on that. They have stricter requirements on what they call principles. They have much stricter standards on what they can call things. I am not a scientist, and I say evolution is a fact, just like we can all call a criminal defendant who is not in a court case we are involved in "guilty" while the judge and jury have to call him "innocent until proven guilty". If evolution is false, that would shock me just as much as finding out that the North Pole does not exist and has been an illusion this whole time.

Originally Posted by Elwood

? But why are there still apes?

Because we're not done killing them all yet.

Originally Posted by Elwood

? But why are there still apes?

Lol. Read about evolution. In tha tsentence you suggest we came from apes. That is not true. Evolution says that both humans and present apes evolved from a common ancestor - which means present apes are also evolved, not only us. They didn't "freeze" in evolution like thought.

If you wanna go against evolution, first you must understand what it states lol. Right now you are attacking something that is not evolution.