• Question: How can evolution be real

    Asked by amock to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by hamza, bntsg.
    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Evolution is believed by many people, just as a great number of people believe in creationism. You must look at the evidence yourself and see what you think is the best theory!

      I believe in evolution not only because of the fossil record, but because you can actually watch it happen in the lab. Yeast cells grown in drug can produce mutations that allow them to grow in the presence of the drug, allowing these cells to reproduce and replce those cells not able to grow in teh presence of the drug – selection and survival of the fittest.

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      Joanna Buckley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I believe in evolution but there are many theories.

      I believe in evolution because of all the fossils and the history of species which were around millions of years ago. There are some pretty cool things that you can see. Why do we have a tail bone but no tail? We must have evolved from something with a tail!

      Also, the next time you look at a snake, take a look at it’s body. Its got little ridges where it’s arms and legs should go!! 🙂 It must have evolved from something like a lizard, with legs and arms!

      Cool, huh?!

    • Photo: Mark Lancaster

      Mark Lancaster answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      It it weren’t we wouldn’t be having this conversation on the internet – we’d still be swinging from a tree

    • Photo: Tim Craggs

      Tim Craggs answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      What a good question! I think the first thing we have to establish is what do we mean by evolution? The theory of evolution is that over many millions of years, creatures have evolved, adapted to different environments. The process of evolution requires two things, 1) a way of changing the make up of life (like mutations in DNA) and 2) Selection pressure (this is the survival of the fittest bit).

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