Biological evolution is descent with modification.


Evolution helps us to understand the history of life.


This list should help to dispel some of those myths.



15. Evolution is a theory about the origin of life






14. Organisms are always getting better

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Some examples of this are fungi, sharks, crayfish, and mosses - these have all remained essentially the same over a great period of time.




Fitness is linked to their environment, not to progress.



13. Evolution means that life changed ‘by chance’

In fact, natural selection is not random.

Many aquatic animals need speed to survive and reproduce - the creatures with that ability are more suited to their environment and are more likely to survive natural selection. In turn, they will produce more offspring with the same traits and the cycle continues.




12. Natural selection involves organisms ‘trying’ to adapt

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Organisms do not “try” to adapt - it is natural selection that enables various members of a group to survive and reproduce.




11. Natural selection gives organisms what they ‘need.’

Natural selection has no “intelligence” - it can not tell what a species needs.


If a genetic variant is not present, the population will most likely do - or it will survive with little evolutionary change.



10. Evolution is ‘just’ a theory

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They are, in fact, two very different concepts.



9. Evolution is a Theory in Crisis

There is no debate in science as to whether or not evolution occurred - there is, however, debate over how it happened.





8. Gaps in the Fossil Record Disprove Evolution

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Actually, many transitional fossils do exist - for example, there are fossils of transitional organisms between modern birds and their dinosaur ancestors, as well as whales and their land mammal ancestors.





7. Evolutionary Theory is Incomplete






6. The Theory is Flawed

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Science is an extremely competitive field - if any flaws were discovered in evolutionary theory they would be quickly corrected.





5. Evolution is not science because it is not observable







4. Most Biologists have rejected Darwinism



Darwin considered that evolution proceeds at a deliberate, slow pace - but in fact it has now been discovered that it can proceed at a rapid pace under some circumstances.


Scientists have improved and expanded on Darwin’s original theory of natural selection - it has not been rejected, it has been added to.



3. Evolution Leads to Immoral Behavior



It is nonsensical to link evolution to immoral or inappropriate behavior.



2. Evolution Supports “Might Makes Right”








1. Teachers Should Teach Both Sides





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From a previous comment "Why can't people understand, the Bible never truly tells HOW God created everything. Who's to say that he didn't use evolution to create all the living organisms on our planet?"

That's a childish idea. It's like saying "Who is to say a god fairy doesn't use gravity to keep creatures from floating up into space?"

Natural processes like natural selection don't need supernatural users.

Your magic god fairy is not necessary for anything and in any case it's idiotic to pretend there's magic, also known as god, in the universe.

By the way, you used the word "he". Does your god fairy have male sex organs?

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i think its was an important point at the start of the article that the theory of evolution deals more with how life evolved once it was there rather than the origins of life.While darwins theory seems the likely mechanism in which life forms evolve it in no way explains satisfactorily how life itself originated.An equasion was worked out to estimate the likelyhood of life occuring given all the possible parameters such as the time of 100,s of millions of years and based on the accepted model. The equasion came out with figure that represented such magnitude of unlikelyhood that to all intents and purposes it was impossible.In other words the the theory of how the accidental interlocking of molecules that caused the first cells is extremely far fetched and unlikely according to real science.Therefore it is a theory often taught as fact with suprisingly little scientific facts supporting the primordial origin of living cells themselves.Therefore Darwinism and evolutionary theory is a bit red herring when it comes to actual origin of life as it does not prove much of that which it proports to ie explaining the origin of life.

The issue is there are very real problems with the theory of evolution. Darwin himself said the number of transitional forms should be "inconceivably great". In fact, if you have read his book you realize that almost every form should be a transitional form. His theory was that all this happened very gradually. Even if creationists grant you the weak attempts at computer images of transitional forms, no honest scientist can say the number of forms are "inconceivably great" or "innumerable" as Darwin says elsewhere in his book. Yet many scientist will not even admit this is a problem However, it is such a proble that Stephen Jay Gould created a new theory to address it. Punctuated equilibrium is an attempt to answer the fossil record dilemma. All I ask for is honesty. Also, to begin researching the origin of life while at the same time stating you will not settle for the explanation that an intelligent designer created it (I am not saying God so don't panic) is not proper science and those of you that have intelligence know that. Yet that is exactly what scientists have done. Read through almost any biology textbook from your favorite college and you will see what I mean. If you are truly going to study the origin of life you must be open-minded and let the evidence lead you where it will. The truth is that any argument you make to support evolution could be made to support a single intellegent designer that used the same materials to create his masterpieces, similar to the way any art expert can tell you who the artist is based on the similarities. Please answer me honestly, "Is it at all possible that we were created by something?"


this article is awesome. thank u very much... i must say that i didn't know many facts about evolution.
I believe ONLY in SCIENCE, and nothing else, 'cause science is enough, in fact it's everything...

this is awsome im doing a report on evolution and this is great for informatio laughing

Why can't people understand, the Bible never truly tells HOW God created everything. Who's to say that he didn't use evolution to create all the living organisms on our planet? I believe somewhere in the Bible it says something like "men were created from the dust", I see that as a perfect early-century description of evolution, saying that we (men) came from the dust (possibly the primeval sludge?). Either way, it all makes sense to me. Evolution is not a religion, Christianity is not a scientific theory.

er...supachezzy, catholics are christians.

wassat wait........ what?

KLG is completly right. people obvisouly evolve. along with other animals. im 12 and i still understand that God or some kind of unseen force controls it or even the Earth itself. THANK GOD IM NOT CATHLIC! I COULD NEVER FOLLOW ALL THOOSE RULES! ( im cristian)

I dont understand people who dont believe in evolution. How stupid! Look at the proof people! For those of you who are smart enough to realize that it did happen cheers to you

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