Evidence of Evolution

Is There Evidence for Evolution?

Natural selection (done in the wild) and artificial selection (as done by breeders) produce enormous varieties within the different kinds of plants and animals. It has proved an impossible feat, however, to change one kind of creature into a different kind of plant or animal. The so-called “kind barrier” has never been crossed.

Do Imperfections Prove Evolution?

What are these imperfections we walk around with, and do they prove evolution? Among the supposed imperfections are cellular diseases, hiccups, backaches, goosebumps, and wisdom teeth. Almost all cases of “imperfections” chalked up to evolution can be reconciled easily with creation or the curse of God on the whole creation.

Denying Evolution like Denying the Holocaust

Richard Dawkins ignores the difference in the type of evidence supporting Darwinism and the Holocaust. The Holocaust is documented by photographic evidence, by historical documents, and by testimonies of both prisoners and jailers. The “evidence” of evolution, however, is indirect and based on speculation.

Creationists Afraid to Accept Evolution

Our “strong resistance to evolution” does not spring from a “deep dislike for a scientific understanding of how nature works” or a fear that scientific explanations will crowd out God. The fact is we understand evolution too well to accept it.

Articles About Evidence of Evolution

  • Dawkins' Crusade
    Aug. 29, 2009 from News to Know

    Although we frequently decline to comment when individuals inveigh against creationists (especially because such comments are often redundant and misinformed), we can hardly help but respond to vocal atheist (and anti-creationist) Richard Dawkins.

  • New York Times: “The Mistakes that Argue for Evolution”
    July 18, 2009 from News to Know

    The New York Times–News to Note conversation continues.

  • Robots and Evolution
    June 6, 2009 from News to Know

    Laboratory scientists designing robots, then making changes to improve the robots’ success—is that really evolution?

  • How You Can Help (Dis)prove Evolution
    April 4, 2009 from News to Know

    If you’re living in Europe, you’ve been asked to help find evidence for evolution in your backyard.

  • Book Chapter
    Hasn’t Evolution Been Proven True?
    Feb. 10, 2009 from The New Answers Book 1

    Evolution is taken as fact by both unbelievers and some Christians. Monty White demonstrates that evolution has never been proven.

  • Proteins: Evidence For Evolution or Intelligent Design
    Nov. 15, 2008

    Proteins that act like “adaptive machines”—are they evidence for evolution or intelligent design?

  • Magazine Department Article
    Fin Evidence
    Oct. 6, 2008 from Answers Magazine

    “Researchers Find Dolphin Loose with Remains of Legs,” blared some news reports.

  • Frog that Lays Land and Water Eggs Seen as Evidence for Evolution
    May 24, 2008

    The hourglass treefrog from Panama is about to become an icon of evolution due to its strange egg-laying behavior.

  • ABC News: Evolution Overwhelming and Compelling
    Jan. 5, 2008

    On Thursday night on American television, ABC News included a segment in its nightly news broadcast (World News Tonight with Charles Gibson) covering the National Academy of Sciences’ newly released book, Science, Evolution and Creationism, described as “a strongly-worded answer to the Creationist movement and the doubts about Darwin that many people express in polls and elsewhere.”

  • Which is Better: Two Legs or Four?
    July 21, 2007

    To test the theory that “human ancestors began walking upright because it used less energy than quadrupedal walking,” scientists hooked five chimpanzees and four humans up to facemasks and placed them on a treadmill to measure their “energy expenditure and biomechanics.”

  • Magazine Department Article
    Common Ancestor or Common Designer?
    July 6, 2007 from Answers Magazine

    Homology is presented as solid evidence for biological evolution. Is there another explanation for the similarities among limbs?

  • Magazine Department Article
    Museum Mania
    July 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

    Science museums in some of America’s largest cities have recently been staging major pro-evolution exhibits, each purporting to show how the fossil record supports molecules-to-man evolution.

  • Robotic Study Shows Differences Between Walking and Swimming
    March 10, 2007

    European scientists formerly “puzzled” over the workings of a key episode in the story of evolution have developed a salamander-esque robot in an effort to elucidate an answer to the puzzle.

  • Lizards Touted as Proving Evolution
    Nov. 18, 2006

    Scientists in the Bahamas have been carefully observing the leg lengths of brown anole lizards after scientists released predatory curly-tailed lizards onto the islands.

  • Dolphin Found with “Remains of Legs”
    Nov. 5, 2006

    The following headline was featured Sunday morning (November 5) on Fox News Television: “Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin with Remains of Legs.”

  • “Breakthrough” of the Year?
    Feb. 1, 2006 from Answers Update

    A cover story in the reputable journal Science evolution proclaimed evolution as the “breakthrough of the year” for 2005.

  • Technical Research Paper
    Does Homology Provide Evidence of Evolutionary Naturalism?
    April 1, 2001, pp. 26–33

    A review of the literature on homology indicates that the theory does not provide evidence for evolutionary naturalism, and that the common examples of homology can be better explained by Creation.

  • Has Evolution Really Been Observed?
    April 3, 1998

    Molecules-to-man evolution requires that non-intelligent processes could produce vast quantities of functional complex information.

  • Magazine Article
    Evolution of a Phantom
    June 1, 1992, pp. 23–24

    A whole age of scientific endeavour was wasted searching for a phantom. It is time we stopped and looked at the facts. Natural sciences failed to supply any evidence for evolution.

  • Magazine Article
    Similarities Don’t Prove Evolution
    March 1, 1992, pp. 30–31

    So-called homologous structures are no proof of common descent, so are no proof of evolution.

  • Magazine Article
    No Proofs for Evolution
    June 1, 1991, pp. 17–18

    Genetics has no proofs for evolution.

  • Magazine Article
    Supergerms—Do They Prove Evolution?
    March 1, 1989, pp. 14–17

    Lurking in even our finest hospitals is an unwelcome visitor—the supergerm. Doctors have exposed it to every available antibiotic, but it merrily goes on growing.

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