Is evolution a scientific fact?
The trouble with evolution is that it really does require a good understanding of such things as sources of variation in living organisms, the tendency for living organisms to produce far too many offspring, and that environments are always changing, to be able to really get the picture. Throw in more information about genes, gene pools and mutated genes and you’ll be even better informed and should be able to be able to decide for yourself. The term ‘selection of the fittest’ often used in describing evolution has nothing to do with training type fitness. The ‘fittest’ are those individuals in a variable population which are best equipped to handle the prevailing environmental conditions – and therefore are most likely to live long enough to have babies which themselves would be more likely than otherwise to possess the same qualities of the parents. So long as the environment stays the same, that’s how things will stay, but if the environment changes, evolution will change direction
If you know anything about science, you’ll know that there is no such thing as “fact”. This is the single most important tenet of modern science. Hypotheses are tested through experiment and become theories when evidence suggests a hypothesis to be true. If _anything_ can be shown to contradict the theory then it is not valid in its current form and must be re-worked. Evolution is a THEORY. Evidence has shown the hypothesis of evolution to be true. There is no contradictory evidence which would disprove the theory of evolution so it remains a working theory. I hope this clears a few things up. Cheers.
A scientific fact? Facts are facts, being scientific doesn’t make them more certain. Evolution is just a scientific theory that works. If you look at other scientific theories eg Newton’s Theory of motion it was ‘true’ for about 400 years until Einstein came along and showed where it was wrong. Relativity is still a great theory but scientists keep chipping away at it to find out things it cannot explain. What I am trying to say is that scientist keep investigating theories to show they are wrong, then they need a better one. Now evolution works. That IS a fact. The question really is ‘Does it always work?’ Well, so far no one has shown that evolution is wrong, but that does not mean that there is no God. We do know that there are going to be questions we can’t explain for a long time ,but that doesn’t mean that evolution is wrong either, Incidentally it seems to me that people who think that our feeble attempts to get to know this fabulously complex and intricate world can show there
Yes evolution is a fact. If you look at the genes for HIV you can see them evolving. On the small scale within populations – called microevolution – the processes which cause them to evolve are well understood. Macroevolution which leads to the formation of new species also exists, although understanding the processes which cause this is much more difficult as these happen over much longer time scales.
