Has evolution been proved to be right?

Answer 1

Yes, evolution has been proven true.

Richard Lenski has been very precisely observing twelve cultures of E. coli bacteria since 1988 and has documented multiple occurrences of new genes appearing in the DNA of those bacteria.

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Evolution is also still a "theory" having yet to be proven.

Before anyone starts bragging about the E. coli experiment that supposedly (but didn't) prove evolution. The end result, after 50,000 generations of breeding, with the experiment only proved life will find a way. It will adapt. Not evolve. Case in point... He got E. coli to live in an inhospitable environment, well, so do the Sherpa and Eskimos of today.

After 50,000 generations of E. coli breeding and experimentation... it has not evolved into another species.

50,000 generations ago... Humans were known as Homo erectus.

25,000 generations ago... Neanderthals were walking around.

There are SEVERAL complete species of change between modern humans and the ancestors walking around 1,000,000 years ago. And after 50,000 generations... he still has "just" E. coli.

We are still missing some key piece of evidence for the validation of evolution.

Answer

Technically, you can refute wrong ideas (hypotheses/theories) but you can never prove anything absolutely. Evolution is spectacularly evidence-supported. Evolution has no refutation. We are 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure that evolution is true. Note how pedantic this. With all the evidence we might as well say that we are 100% sure that evolution is true and that evolution is a theory that is more than a theory (a fact). Evolution is correct and is accepted by all respectable scientists who accept it due to its evidence.

Answer 2

Evolution is a scientific theory, meaning, that it is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena. It has been directly observed and largely confirmed in experiments to justify its status as a scientific theory. N.B. The notion of a scientific theory is different from the colloquial use of the word "theory", which is closer to the scientific terms "hypothesis" or "conjecture". No scientific theory, no matter how obvious or trivial, can ever reach absolute correctness and this is the nature of science.

Evidence

We have clearly seen that evolution is a process that is still happening in our world. Some examples include the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, which have evolved as a result of human use of antibiotics, and some insects which have evolved a resistance to insecticide. Evolution is seen all the time in the wild and in laboratories, and does merit the name theory. But the initial appearance of life from non-living matter is not as well confirmed as is the subsequent evolution of life from simple beginnings to its current complexity. N.B. Evolution seeks to explain how life came to the amazing complexities now from less complex forms, not to explain the origin of life itself. Logically, if one is to accept evolution, then the beginning of life can be as simple as a number of molecules, though this does not disprove the possibility of other origins of life or explain how the planet came to be able to support life in the first place (unlike other plants in the system).

Other arguments for the origin of life

Special-Earth hypothesis:

The Earth is in too perfect a location for it to be an accident: closer to the Sun and we would burn and melt, farther out and the water would freeze.

Religious explanation (faith-based):

Everything was created by the Christian God. There are no fossils of the links for evolving fish to frogs to monkeys to people.

Answer 3

It really does depend on what you believe. If you are a Christian, you probably wouldn't believe in it as The Bible states that God created the world in six days (rested on the seventh). Charles Darwin's theory contradicts the bible as he believes that everything evolved from the same species and changed to best fit their environment or Natural Selection. Scientists would probably believe in evolution as they according to them) have found evidence that proves such theory. PS I have tried to keep an opened mind as possible when answering this question by not giving a definite answer or my opinion. By doing this i haven't caused any offence, as i know this can be difficult subject between believers and nonbelievers.

Answer 4

Some religious people, known as Creationists, believe that evolution is wrong. They believe that God created the world and that He is still in the process of making it (with us).

The scientific community have evidence otherwise, however. Darwin discovered the mechanism of natural selection. Those who were most adept to their environment survived and passed on their traits to the next generation, etc. (how the giraffe's neck is so long). The fittest survived while those who couldn't compete with the other members of their race died off, and over time, the race developed to have the traits of the fittest - evolution.

Some people, actually, believe that both evolution and Creation coincide. These people believe that the 6 days of Creation weren't the 24 hour days we have today, but much longer. For example, the difference between light and the formation of seas and land was billion(s) of years, and then another billion some-odd years before the first basic animals of the sea formulated, then the more complex animals, ending with us, human beings on the sixth day.

Answer 5

Scientists do not prove things and truth is always provisional; unless you are an ideologue.

That said, evolution is a fact and the theory of evolution by natural selection explains a great deal about that fact, in a internally consistent way and supported by mountains of many lines of converging evidence. Fossil, generic, molecular. bio-geographic, anatomical, and embryological. to name several disciplines contributory to evolutionary theory.