It’s not accepted by many people b/c it’s preposterous. To imagine that the millions of intricacies inside our body came about via modification through descent is downright laughable.
If you can believe that living things came from non-living things, you can believe anything.
Darwin admitted the obvious - no geological evidence supported his theory. Since the publication of ‘origin of the species’ there has been no factual corroboration, although many scientists claimed to have found irrefutable proof, they have all been exposed as hoaxes... I submit the theory doesn’t even meet the criterion of a theory, rather; it only carries the scientific weight of a myth... Grrr!
Bottom line for me: After all these many decades of intensive study, the “theory of evolution” remains just a theory (yet it is taught in many places as scientific fact).
natural selection is testable. as a scientific theory, it’s valid. let’s call this micro-evolution.
macro-evolution, on the other hand, is not testable by the scientific method. we cannot devise a test to show that a bacterium can evolve into a blue whale. so it’s just a theory, and should be taught as that. it may or may not be true. but it’s beyond science’s ability to verify at this point.
people who understand this simple fact, take an agnostic approach to it.
i’m Catholic and even if it were true, it doesn’t have any impact on my faith. the Bible contains many allegorical stories. Genesis doesn’t have to be a literal description of how we came to be. God could well have provided the divine spark for the very first life form to come into existence and simply waited for us to become what we are, until he chose to reveal to us his presence.
X-men aside, mutation in DNA is almost never beneficial, and is at best neutral, but usually harmful.
There will come a day when people will laugh that evolution was ever even a proposal, let alone taught as fact in schools.
It is well known fact that with evolution, the octopus lost the nostrils and took on the more familiar look that we know today. If you still look closely you can see ah, a little bump where the nose use to be.
I’m completely willing to concede that those on the Left are part of the missing link.
Gaps in evolution theory:
Between the living and non-living or dead matter;
Between the vegetable and the animal kingdoms;
Between the invertebrates and the vertebrates;
Between marine animals and amphibians;
Between amphibians and reptiles;
Between reptiles and birds;
Between reptiles and mammals;
Between mammals and the human body;
Between soulless simians and the soul of man, bearing the image of God.
It takes less faith to believe “God” made this than “earth” made this
Nonsense intellectually and scientifically mixed up article.
Very convoluted.
Scientists quite often misrepresent the theory themselves, often referring to something evolving this or that in order to better cope. That is total nonsense.
If evolution is 100% accepted, it is still not a guided change.
The most that can be said is that things change, if that change does not preclude them from the surviving. There is no logical reason to presume that giraffes needed a longer neck, as short necked ruminants have done just fine. The most that we can say is that giraffes evolved to have longer necks, for reasons we cannot presume to understand, and that they have survived that change. We have no idea whether the giraffe is better off as a species by having a longer neck, we just know that they do have longer necks, and they have survived.
Bkmrk.
Evolution is heavily supported by species modification data. Even dog breeding or plant breeding proves the basic concepts.
But species jumping, that’s not been proven at all.
Confusing those two concepts is how the game is played.
This is better described as Breeding rather than evolution.
In bacteria growing resistant to anti-biotics we are inadvertently breeding a variety/strain of bacteria resistant to our anti-biotics.
The new strain is not a newly evolved species of bacteria. The new strain is still capable of reproducing sexually with the old strain. It will still infect the same host and produce the same disease.
Evolution will remain a theory until someone produces a test to prove its validity.
So far mankind with our unnatural selection have yet to produce a new species. Even after at least ten thousand years of selective breeding of the dog is still a wolf under all of that variety of shapes and sizes.
So I don't give Evolution much hope of shedding the theory moniker any time soon.
The author is a moron.
Many aspects of Relativity have been objectively tested and proven. It also has been applied to real-world things. For example, GPS satellites have to account for time dilation in order for GPS to work.
“Evolution” is like “Man Caused Global Warming”: neither has been objectively proven. For example, there is not one experimental example of one species evolving into another species. (Micro-evolution, for example adaptation of coloration, has been experimentally shown, but this is entirely different from evolving into another species.)
Also, even though aspects of relativity have been proven, it’s still called the THEORY of Relativity. Why? Because some aspects have not been fully proven. Ergo, calling evolution a theory is actually giving the HYPOTHESIS of Evolution too much credit. (Now, evolution may be correct, but that has not been proven.)
Again, the author is a moron - a scientifically illiterate one at that.
If I post the 10 stupidest criticisms of evolution, they would certainly be dumb and easy to poke holes in. However, listing those would in no way answer the 10 smartest criticisms of evolution.
Bkmk
The theory of evolution says nothing about the origin of life. It is about the origin of species.
No branch of science has so far been able to explain what life is, or how it began.
How St Thomas of Aquinas defined life: do a Google search for “life immanent action Owen Aloysius Hill”
Even mainstream scientists have a hard time defending evolution these days. The evidence just isn’t there.
I tend to believe that book of “fables” anyways regarding creation called The Bible.