>> Variations and patterns of species.
A. In Chapters 1 and 2 [Origins of Species], he considers how patterns of variation in domesticated and wild fauna and flora support descent with modification.
B. In Chapters 10-12, he shows how the patterns of species distributions in time and space support branching evolution from common ancestral lineages. He considered this evidence to be especially strong.
- NYU
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/fitch/courses/evolution/html/evidence.html#DarwinsEvidenceForEvolution
>> Natural selection can produce evolutionary change.
The Beaks of Darwin's Finches. Natural selection favors stouter bills in dry years, when large tough-to-crush seeds are the only food available to finches.
Peppered Moths and Industrial Melanism. Natural selection favors dark-colored moths in areas of heavy pollution, while light-colored moths survive better in unpolluted areas.
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- Txtwriter
http://txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Evolution/EVcontents.html
>> Artificial Selection.
Artificial selection practiced in laboratory studies, agriculture, and domestication demonstrate that selection can produce substantial evolutionary change.
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http://txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Evolution/EVcontents.html
<STRONG But is substantial evolutionary change creating new information?
There's a big difference between merely changing an existing structure versus actually creating new information and structures through chance.
>> There are lots of transitional fossils around.
As for actual evidence for evolution, there is plenty. We have evolution that’s been observed in laboratories (even to the point where it’s reproducible, I called it “Evolution on tap”), observed speciation and thousands of transitional fossils. A transitional fossil represents the preserved (to some degree) remains of an organism that exhibits certain traits which are found in later organisms. These typically also exhibit traits found in much later organisms. They represent an organism that bridges the evolutionary gap between species, in evolutionary terms (although it may be a species in its own right).
We are at a point where we can use evolutionary theory to accurately predict where to find transitional fossils, which period they will date from and what forms they will take. That is the completeness of the theories and how closely tied it is to the discovered evidence. Any sane person would find the evidence for evolution to be so overwhelming as to be incontrovertible.
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- The Atheist http://www.the-atheist.com/the-basics-of-evolution/
When fossils are arranged in the order of their age, a continual series of change is seen, new changes being added at each stage.
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The Evolution of Horses.
The record of horse evolution is particularly well-documented and instructive.
- Txtwriter
http://txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Evolution/EVcontents.html
>> Evidence for evolution can be found in other fields of biology.
The Anatomical Record. When anatomical features of living animals are examined, evidence of shared ancestry is often apparent.
The Molecular Record. When gene or protein sequences from organisms are arranged, species thought to be closely related based on fossil evidence are seen to be more similar than species thought to be distantly related.
Convergent and Divergent Evolution. Evolution favors similar forms under similar circumstances.
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http://txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Evolution/EVcontents.html
>> Humans and monkeys are very similar.
They have almost everything the same except the brain and erect posture. Example: eyes, ears, nose, two hands, two feet, etc.The finger nails are very similar.
The brain is even very similar.
< Just because monkeys are very similar, it doesn't really mean it's true.
If Creation were true, God could have easily designed both humans and monkeys to be similar, but with humans having the brain and power over monkeys. There are clear large differences between them, and to deny them is illogical. One very large difference is that humans are the ones building sky scrappers, cities, bridges, rail roads, schools, houses, hospitals, space ships, etc, and the monkeys build none.
>> WEAK Mirco evolution is happening all around us.
This proves macro evolution. Since micro evolution is just small steps over a small period of time, with a lot of time, micro evolution adds up and thus large changes happen, resulting in huge differences between species, such as man and monkeys.< STRONG But micro evolution and macro evolution have really large differences, apart from the difference of amount of time.
Micro evolution is based on mutations of information on existing species.
Macro evolution is based on large amounts of mutations enough to create new functional information/machine from scratch! That's a big difference. As an analogy, it's easier to change the color of your wall with micro evolution just by randomly choosing a color. But with macro evolution, you have to make the paint itself, make the bucket itself, and make the wall itself from scratch. If you were to mutate a piece of information on the wall or paint to try to make a sky scrapper, then you will fail. Making such large changes requires a lot of intelligence.... building something as large and complex as a functional sky scrapper will NEVER happen from large amounts of small mutations over a long period of time.
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