Could someone explain the theory of evolution?
I wrote a blog entry about this that might help you understand evolution better, it’s over 5000 words long so it won’t fit here http://intelsblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/… if you have any questions feel free to comment with them.
The information is out there; the question is whether or not you have the prerequisite knowledge to understand it. At its simplest level, evolution is “the change in the genetic material of a population of organisms through successive generations.” These changes tend to be minor in nature, but over the course of several generations can add up to noticeable differences in the species, or even lead to the emergence of an entirely new species. If you want a very clearly defined example of controlled evolution, do some research on dog breeding. This sort of speciation is a form of controlled evolution. Different breeds of dogs are interbred to reinforce certain genetic traits and predispositions. Oh, and: “That’s what it is, “Just” a theory!” And yet again, you show that you don’t actually understand the scientific definition of the word “theory”. A theory is not a wild-*** guess. A theory is a scientific hypothesis put forward to explain an event or occurrence; the hypothesis, while not d
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary… http://ncseweb.org/evolution http://www.toarchive.org/ http://www.notjustatheory.com/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/ Those are some great online resources. If you’re going to read just one book on evolution, to get a feel for it, I’d suggest Jerry Coyne’s “Why Evolution Is True”, even over “The Greatest Show on Earth”, by Richard Dawkins; much easier to digest if you aren’t “up on” evolution, but it doesn’t dumb down the science either, far from it.
