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How can anyone believe in 'The Theory of Evolution'?

The theory of evolution's strongest supporting "evidence", does NOT exist. It is the "Common Ancestor". There is not a single shred of evidence of such a beast/man, out of the masses of them, that must have been for us to be here. Where is the evidence? What kind of creature was it, half man, half ape? What is it called? Everyone knows these questions can't be answered by 'intelligent', 'knowledgeable' people and, since this "Common Ancestor", so crucial in proving the theory of evolution, turns out to be a figment of evolutionist's imagination, how can the 'theory (scientific 'fact') of evolution' possibly stand up and be believed?

I am NOT a creationist, nor any other religionist, just a truth seeker.

Update:

October

I have read a multitude of books & literature over the past 40 odd years, but to no avail. Perhaps you could indicate, "PRECISELY", where the evidence of the "Common Ancester" is?

Cheers.

Update 2:

DAVID B

I just cannot accept a missleading, untruth as you suggest. There is no "Common Ancestor", therefore, the 'theory of Evolution' is "wrong", and it shouldn't be rammed down our throats as being "right".

And, with respect, I didn't say that we came from Apes, did I?

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joseph_g...

My interests lie only in the origin of the Human being. The validity of evolution, regarding "other living things" (which you, yourself, admit is "adaption"), is so controvercial and refuted by other respected scientists, I just don't want to be as enveloped, brainwashed and confused as you and your fellow cultists obviously are.

You are a typical 'fanatical' evolutionist, which is revealed by your insults about my intelligence and research. You urge me to think that I should have headed this question, "How could any 'intelligent' person believe in 'The Theory of Evolution'?

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User # 45

I will, and do, accept evolutionism, regarding the origin of Human beings, just like creationism, as a 'raw evidenceless faith'.

Update 5:

neal9sg

YOUR 'miss'truth seeeking is painfully evident by the ignorance you show in stating that the "Common Ancestor" was part monkey - while 'true' evolutionists insist it was part Ape. Though you do show a little promise of becoming an evolutionist, by your typically evolutionistic, defensive sarcarsm.

Now! As I asked *October*, where "PRECISELY" is this evidence of the "Common Ancestor"?

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NOTE

The edit immediately above this, is the last evolutionistic one I respond to, that doesn't show a degree of intelligence and a lack of insults, sarcasm and bigotry.

Update 7:

Jelise

The one piece of evidence I persistently request ("look for"), is the very foundation stone that 'The Theory of Evolution" is based on. The whole 'Evolutionary Theory' of Human origin has no supporting fossil evidence, not one, 'unequivocal', shred, and there is a massive and growing, number of eminent and respected scientists that refute the very controvercial 'theory of Evolution', from the emeba to the latest DNA evidence.

Btw. It never fails to amaze me, why you Evolutionists feel the need to resort to insults and sarcasm all the time, in your desperately defensive attempts to force Evolution upon everyone!!

Update 8:

azteccam

You are an ignorant, idiot, and typical of a true, brainwashed follower of Evolutionism.

Update 9:

zeb6219

I thought it was obvious that my interests, in this particular case, lie ONLY in the area of 'Human' origin and the "mediatory" fossil evidence to support it. The La Brea tar pits in LA have NOT produced any "missing links" (sorry to use such a well worn phrase, but it is, still, very significant, despite evolutionist's constant and fanatical attempts to redicule it) and without this fossil evidence of 'speciation', the theory of evolution, regarding the origin of us Modern Humans, cannot 'stand up'.

Good luck and good looking yourself, but avoid 'wikipedia', its editable and completely biased, as are ALL other evolution sites.

Update 10:

icabodwa

You to have failed to indicate, precisely, where the 'unequivocal' mediatory,fossil evidence, that is 'crucial' as support for the theory of (macro) evolution, regarding Human beings.

The ambiguous web sites you offer (as all defending evolutionists do to cover their inability to state precisely where the 'proving' evidence is), are ALL, very much, biased towards evolution (of course), but if the site and creature (http://www.primate.com/pierolopithecus/...) was your BEST offer of "unequivocal" proof of Human evolution, then my heart sinks for you, because it falls so far short of the mark, it can only be accepted by any normal, intelligent person as completely and utterly 'pathetic' and it just indicates how you (and your fellow followers of evolutionism) have become so brainwashed by the moutains of confusing, flimsy and ambiguous, information, churned out by the 'Church of Evolution'. Sorry!

Update 11:

Timepond

OK! Go and take your pills and have a lie down. You don't need to waste any more of your (nor anyone elses') time here. When you've rested your little brainwashed head, go out and search for the REAL truth of Human Origin.

(Sorry, just a tad of 'returned' sarcasm there!)

Update 12:

Vsevolod

Its very difficult to respond to someone who is only prepared to 'spout', without paying attention to the other person's point. I am NOT religious, in any way, as I have specifically indicated on so many occasions, including this one, so, why the lecture on "Protestant church leaders"?

The majority of the rest of your 'article' can be extracted from any of the multitude of evolution, fanatically biased, ambiguous, web sites available. As for you god, Richard Dawkins, he's only in it for the money. He makes a fortune out of your brainwashed gulibility.

Update 13:

Noel

Oh dear!! Not another smart ar*se no-mark, with an over developed superiority complex? Where are you all coming from?

"Irrational, very dogmatic, not facing the truth, not facing the facts", Hmmm!! I see!! But actually, you are describing yourself, to which you can add, "patronising, unintelligent, brainwashed, bigoted & gulible".

So! What are these "facts" that you are so smug about? That the "closest", 'unequivocal' proof of human evolution is that our hemoglobin has an "ALMOST" 'identical' chemical composition as a Chimp. "Almost" identical is NOT identical, is it? Biologist also confirmed that human DNA is "almost" identical to a fruit fly's, not quite as close as a chimp's, but close enough to suggest to any intelligent person, that ALL living creatures have 'similar' DNA. That does not make evolution unequivocally 'Factual' & to support such a flimsy, nonsensical conclusion is pathetically short sighted.

A basic human intelligence course could help you, Noel.

Update 14:

James J

Did you make all that up as you went along? Its a good story, but that's all it can be, because it doesn't have the very crucial, basic foundations for it to be anywhere near the truth.

Yes! I had noticed that embryos look alike, even a chicken's in its egg. So, like the "almost" identical DNA evidence that is supposed to 'positively' and 'factually', link us to the chimp, this observation also links us to the chicken, eh? Hey! Perhaps the 'Chicken's ancestor' is the "Common Ancestor"?? Wow!, I think we're on to something here, James!! We've found the missing link folks, we've found the missing link!! You can all stop searching now, and from this day on it will be known as. "The FACT of Evolution". Hoobloodyray!!!

Sorry to beat you at the post with the sarcasm, but you really do ask for it.

Update 15:

Cavorim

Hi Cavorim. Nice to meet again. I hope you have managed to 'plough through' the 'answers' & comments.

As you know my main interest is Human Origin, but that's because, evolutionists have got to prove their theory unequivocally correct, before anything else, regarding the validity of evolution, can 'stand up'.

The validity of micro-evolution is far too scetchy and flimsy, with evolutionists using "probabilities" after "probabilites" and "almost" identicals as 'identicals', etc., to mislead themselves into believeing that the 'evolution' they are seeing in progress, is really 'adaption'.

The 'debate' continues.

Take care. xx

Update 16:

CAVORIM II

BTW. Be sure to read *American Boy's* answer/article and, please, let me know what you think. Its very impressive, whichever way you take it!

Update 17:

Skurka

I'm afraid that your interpretation of the evidence, as in evolution, is totally wrong (what a shame!). I am not, in the least, bitter. You ignorantly mistake my fraustration at the sad LACK of 'open-minded' intelligence, fanatically practiced by you followers of the evolutionism faith. Don't you realise, that you are seriously and criminally restricting human progress and learning with your cloudy shrouds and 'out-of-control' mountains of ambiguous, misinterpreted and disnonestly biased information. It isn't even 'plausible' any more.

Tis you, my patronising friend, who should consider moving on, taking all your arrogant, bigoted, dogmatic, superiority complexed and misguided friends with you and leave room for a more intelligent and open-eyed search for the REAL truth of our origin and purpose of existence.

Update 18:

Busted'E

I have started to build up a list of like-minded people as my self and am a personal friend of an American chap called, Lloyd Pye, a successful writer. His expert views on Niberu, planet-X and the Summarians are very close to your own. My views differ slightly, but am a strong believer, given the evidence available, in our origin being intelligently designed. I'm not an IDist, but I go along with them up to the point of 'who' created us, and I certainly don't believe it was the God that the Creationists believe in, he's no devine, omnipotent contoller of the Universe and carer, protector of us humans.

Update 19:

Busted'E II

You can get the info on Lloyd Pye, if you want it, on <www.The Starchild Project>.

He does mention me a couple of times, though I obviously, can't reveal, who I am at this stage.

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  • .
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    I totally concur with you. Both conjectures (Creationism, which needs tweaking, and the Evolution/Uniformitarian Model, which is severe misinterpretation of the data) need to be set aside for a third more comprehensive model.

    This third candidate will entirely support the Holy Scriptures once Christians realize that their dating of 6,000 years for the age of the Earth is wrong and that the 6 days of Creation are actually 6 (day) “epochs” to the chronological history of our Solar System, which spans between 11 million to 24 million years. Additionally, the geological “marker” of 6,000 years that they cite as proof of a 6,000-year Earth really is the result of periodic and cyclic cosmocataclysms that have annihilated the Earth, thus stopping and restarting the “geological clock” in 6,000-year increments. Simultaneously, the highly over exaggerated age of the Earth at 5 billion years is also erroneous as claimed by the Evolutionary/Uniformitarian Model, and Evolutionists will understand this once they realize that our paternal star is NOT our current Sun, but the star Sirius B, for the Sirius Binary is the missing half of our Solar System which was formerly a tertiary system with 3 stars and 11 planets as documented in the ancient record.

    Sirius B was originally a Blue Supergiant B-1 class hydrogen-burning star that was about 5 solar masses larger than our current Sun, and thus, as is the case with all Blue Supergiants, had only a 10 million year life expectancy, because hydrogen stars are fast burning stars. In the first “epoch” we had only 2 members to our system, the Earth and Sirius B (Sirius A, our Sun [technically being Sirius C], and 10 other planets were still in the belly of Sirius B, and would be ejected later in a mass stellar ejection due to a cometary impact [Comet Metis: “Prudence” or “Knowledge”] that impacted into Sirius B’s equatorial region).

    This cometary impact event had to occur “before” Sirius B reached its 9th million year when it would have normally completely depleted its hydrogen and hyperdilated 100 times it’s mass into a helium-burning Red Supergiant. Sirius B NEVER reached this stellar phase due to the cometary impact, which caused a 70% depletion of its mass as it expelled a stellar ejection that formed Sirius A, 10 new planets and our Sun, called by the Ancients the “Osirian Trinary Stellar System”. Hence, the "Sacred Triad" in pagan religion and the pantheon of gods is merely the "personification" of the "Sirian Trichotmy"; thus Sirius B was the "Great Father Begetter God" (Or, Ouranos, Uranus, Orion, Osiris, Apsu, Orpheus, Orcus, Apollo, Balder, Cronos, etc); Sirius A (the "Goddess Star") was the "Great Mother Goddess of the Gods" (Rhea [which literally means "discharge", for she discharged from the side of her brother/husband, Sirius B], Hera, Aphrodite, Venus, Isis ["the woman": Eve born out of the side of Adam (Sirius B)], Cybele, Tiamat, etc.); and Sirius C (our Sun), which established a binary relationship with Sirius B at the core of the system, for it was the last material to eject out but did not have enough velocity to escape Sirius B, was the "Great Child God/Hero" (Heracles, Hercules, Marduk, Zeus, Horus, etc.)

    Sirius A was the outer star in the tertiary system, orbiting the body of the system, and was perceived as the "head". This "head" would later be mythologies as the decapitated head of Medusa when the tertiary system split in two; and catapulted so close was the Earth in this calamity (the nebula discontinuity of Sirius B) that earthbound witnesses recorded the solar flares of Sirius A as her venomous serpentine hair.

    So what this means is that “before” the Earth was a mere 9 million years in age, this cometary event and subsequent stellar discharge took place… it was witnessed by earthbound intelligent humans who recorded the event into the mythological record… which clearly indicates that modern Homo sapiens had already come into existence within the first 9 million years of the Earth’s age. Hence, Evolution with its gargantuan ages and “species evolving” mechanism is completely erroneous.

    The cometary impact was the causative agent of the Flood on Earth, for the impact into Sirius B sprayed outwardly stellar debris that pulverized the Earth with mass celestial bombardment which collapse the “vapor canopy” that originally encapsulated the Earth, which I call the “Prima Altohydrosphere”… just as Creationists have successfully conjectured being a bubble of frozen H2O, carbon, nitrogen and other trace elements that compressed the atmospheric pressure to produce a 30% greater oxygen concentrate and a 300% greater geomagnetic amplitude resulting in “Gigantism” in which EVERYTHING grew to be enormous in stature, and had great longevity in life expectancy. Hence, Noah and the populous of the Earth had to be giants, which appear to be substantiated by St. Augustine who wrote in his book, “The City of God”, about the bones of giant 36-feet tall humans often found on the shores of North Africa in his day, including his personal eye witness account of the unearthing from the African seashore of a giant human molar the size of a man’s fist.

    The mass celestial bombardment of Earth from the “Metisian Impact Event” on Sirius B for the first time ruptured the Earth’s weakest and thinnest surface, the oceanic floors, with great rift faults and adjacent perpendicular fracture zones. One gigantic megabollide projectile impacted into the Southeast Pacific off the coast of Chile. The “antipodal force” shot straight through the middle of the Earth and ruptured out the opposite side. This immense force uplifted an entire vast river valley region dotted with large lakes, rivers and an inland saltwater sea and instantly shot it straight up into the air approximately 3 miles… this today is the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau.

    Another massive megabollide land in the midst of a continental plateau that today no longer exists, it carved out a massive hole, being the largest visible crater impact site in the Solar System, its superstructure exceeding the Helles Crater on Mars (1,300 miles in diameter) by an additional 500 miles. This was mythologized as the fire-breathing monster Aegides recorded in the Mythocorpus (body of myth). The titanic pressure from the impact created an area rich in rare elements, cobalt, diamonds, radium, etc. It has not yet been identified by geologists because they cannot see the forest from the trees. I have identified it as the “Congo Gigacrater” of central Africa. It is no wonder that the African Blacks do not have a “flood myth” as do all the other worldwide and diverse cultures, for Africa was ground zero for the “Aegides Impact Event”, which following ensued the Great Flood as the Greek myth of Aegides indicates. Additionally, it cracked the African Continent with the African Great Rift Fault Valley that extends up the Red Sea into the Dead Sea, and its antipodal force shot through the Earth and lifted from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean the islands of the Fiji, Salomon, and New Zealand Complex just as the myths of those cultures say.

    The Aegides Impact Event subsequently caused the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to SUDDENLY burst as the highly pressurized subterranean seas encapsulated within the asthenosphere of the Earth ruptured and jettisoned 20 miles into the sky. The original sea level of the Earth was actually 2,800 feet below the current sea level. The high precipitous mountains of today were nonexistent before the Flood, for these “uplifts” are “post-percussion features”, the direct result of “antipodal force” due to mass celestial bombardments. In combination with the water in the collapsed frozen upper hydrospheric shield and the released subterranean seas, the sea level of the Flood must have rose 13,000 feet, and then reduced 10,200 feet to their current levels as 30% of the water resettled back into the subterranean cavities of the asthenosphere. In the 1970’s, the U.S. Navy’s submersible geological research on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge reached these same conclusions.

    Rather than Evolution it appears that life emerged on Earth via a “polybiological explosion” of life, all in unison, where the Prima Altohydrosphere created a womb-like pressure cooker out of the Edenic Earth that can be termed the “Geocrucible Effect”, and requiring the irradiation not from a small G-2 class star like our Sun, but from a Blue Supergiants as quantum equations in 2002 determined that the heavier rare element on the Earth and in the human body could not have been created by our tiny star, but are the by-product of a Blue Supergiant. So in reality life emerged via the process of “Spontaneous Polybiological Mass Profusionism” (SPMP) where the entire genetic species “Pool of Life” emerged to be “contemporaneous”. The Egyptian Book of the Dead clearly infers to this process. This ancient collection of “wisdom” appears to be fragments of scientific data from a former global technoculture (predating the ancient history to our current Earth Age) that had already figured out the quantum physics of our origins, but was completely wiped off the face of the Earth by one of the periodic cosmocataclysms.

    Evolutionists have misinterpreted the Geological Column. The stratification was not formed through long geological time. It was formed SUDDENLY in periodic waves from the onslaught of cyclic cosmocataclysms. We live on a “hydraulic planet”, and when it is catapulted through space from these titanic events that knock it off its axial of rotation, then the ocean displace out of their basins and overrun the continents due to “inertia”. This in turns entombs life into alluvium soil (mud), being the primary agent for “fossilization”. As the seas drain off the continents back into the basins the hydraulic viscosity suspends material in the medium according to its weight, thus forming STRATIFICATON of the Geological Column, and in the midst of it are the dead. Thus, it is these periodic extinction level sidereal events that whittled away at the original “Pool of Life” incrementally entombing percentages of it into the Fossil Record.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I have taken multiple anthropology classes, and understand the theory of evolution perfectly. However, I also think that nature is too perfect and too beautiful that it all 'just happening' is too improbable. So, I guess I'd fall under 'Intelligent Design', but not in the way that most people think of it now (ie, people trying to get creationism taught in schools) but in the literal sense, which means that we were somehow created by a higher power, and evolution, if it was the case (it does have its holes, but so do all theories to explain how we got here) would have been directed by this higher power rather than being completely random genetic mutations. As far as Noah's Ark, I don't really know - at the very least, I don't believe a wooden boat could've survived 4000 years exposed on top of a mountain. Almost every culture in existence has some sort of flood story (along with a creation story and a story of a deity being resurrected), which seems to indicate that at some point in very distant history, there was a flood that almost completely covered the parts of the earth known to humans at the time.

  • 1 decade ago

    Dude, are you in college? If you're so interested in this take a evolution course at your local college or university. These courses are widely popular and all science students are required to take them. In the course, they explain from the molecular level, the genetic level, and the physiology level, all the reasons why the "scientific theory" of evolution is the best explanation available. Your judgement of what the theory is at a very basic, crude level understood by the "common person". This understanding is largely incorrect, the theory is not about we came from apes. Nobody knows what exactly we came from, OKay?

    The concept of science is not that our theory is absolutely correct, there is no "definite" answer, it's that we have so much evidence on a topic that we are very close to being sure that the theory is correct.

    Take an example, the theory of gravity. We do not know that there is definitely gravity, but we can feel it, the evidence behind it is too much for the theory to be completely wrong. Thus, it represents the best explanation to explain what is happening around the world.

    If you're in high school or what not, then be patient and wait till university to take a evolution course. It is is science though, and I don't figure you are exactly the type of person that enjoys science?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I can suggest a simple homework. Study a little about genetics, the molecular basis of DNA.

    That is the closest you will get to the basis of evolution.

    The human hemoglobin has an almost identical chemical composition of the chipanzee hemoglobin

    Our DNA has very few differences from the monkey's DNA

    These are some proven facts, confirmed by investigators all over the world, especially in criminal investigations.

    These investigations are the accepted basis for conviction of criminals and establishment of paternity, diagnosis of diseases, etc

    I don't believe these facts can be ignored by a rational person. Especially if someone rejects these proven facts and adopts other theories which have no possible evidence, such as creationism.

    If you are a truth seeker, face the truth and the facts as a starting point. You have to open up your mind to different possibilities. You appear to be very dogmatic .

    After I have said all that I realize that there is no possible way to convince you or anyone else whose mind is locked on an idea. I know that it will never change, no matter how strong the evidence is.

    As they say, some people ignore the truth even when she slaps them on the face.

    I

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We can only consider a variety of theories regarding why we are here and where do we originate from. The truth may never be known. We must choose the most likely theory and accept it till something more likely comes along. In answer to your question, people believe in evolution because most evidence points to it. Other beliefs (including creationism) have a lot less evidence that they could be right. Therefore there is no choice but to consider evolution as likely to be factual. That is if one is open minded.

    With respect (above) Darwin never suggested we came from apes. The theory is that we had a common ancestor.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It makes the most sense to me out of all the other ideas, hypotheses, and half-baked theories that people come up with. It is based on evidence, and although that's not enough for some, it works for me.

    Basically, I think (and I could be wrong) that it boils down to creationism or evolution. I've looked at all sorts of ideas about creationism, eveything from a single omnipotent being who got bored and decided to make people to a cow that for some reason existed and then proceeded to lick giants into being from the ice.

    I think its no more unlikely that we all evolved from a mass of random particles that formed by happy chance into something that could move and think than it is that some god/s thought "Hey, people would be a good idea!"

    And there is evidence. Its not foolproof, granted, but its the best we've got.

  • gillm
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    well maybe you're right - tell you what lets all believe in some imaginary being who lives in the sky- he made our ancestors and he loves us all indefinitely and unconditionally shall we?

    lets not .

    science hasn't got all the answers - yet .

    religion hasn't got any of them and never will have because they are all too busy fighting .

    the theory of evolution is exactly what it says on the tin - a theory - but it makes sense on so many levels.DNA etc seem to back it up but i would never hold with the theory that we all came from 'one pair' so to speak.

    interestingly the native Australians have stories which they have passed down for thousands of years ( they now put them into paintings) .they call them dreams. one of the stories is how we all came from the water as different creatures long before we were people ( sounds like evolution to me)

    I'm not calling this proof - but it adds to the theory.

    sooner or later the truth will out - it's definitely worth the search but i really don't think it's worth fighting over.

    have a good day

  • 1 decade ago

    There are hundreds of fossils of our ancestors, from early humans (homo sapiens idaltu) all the way back to the Australopithecines. In fact, as far as mammals go, the fossil evidence of human ancestors is extensive.

    Evolution is a fact - the fossil record bears that out. Evolution is also a theory - the 'theory' of evolution is the means by which scientists believe that the fact of evolution occurred. In other words, there is no doubt among scientists that evolution does and is occuring, there is only controversy as to what mechanisms drive it and to what extent (sexual selection, genetic drift, etc.)

    To be honest, unless you are religious, there is no reason to doubt evolution. Evolution, as theories go, is well-proven and is the backbone of all modern Biology. Might as well deny the holocaust, while you're at it.

    I don't know which version of truth you seek - the one that actually occurred, or the one that best fits your ideas and preconceptions of the world around you. Given the available evidence, evolution is the only plausible answer to the diversity and adaptability of life on Earth. If that doesn't suit you, you can turn to whatever explanation you wish, but it won't fit the evidence.

    edit: for some real proof of the common ancestry between man and apes, look up "Human Chromosome 2."

  • 1 decade ago

    YES I basically AGREE - although I have no great problem with the proven theory of micro-evolution, just the muddled conjecture called macro-evolution.

    1. It doesn't account for the origin of life, which is presumed.

    2. It doesn't account for creation of consciousness.

    Life evolving from none life I am sure we would all agree is an impossibility !!!! yet make an exception for the Big-Bang theory ?

    All the living creatures in the fossil record appear intact and in their perfect forms. For instance, before crocodiles and squirrels, there exist no fossils belonging to any strange creature partly resembling a crocodile, and in other parts to a squirrel or other living creatures. Squirrels have always remained squirrels, and crocodiles have always remained crocodiles. All these facts reveal that the claim of the theory of evolution, that "Living beings have gradually evolved over millions of years of time" is simply a product of imagination.

    Believing that pure chance can produce perfect designs goes well beyond the bounds of reason.

    Believing in evolution on the 'grand' scale is like saying an explosion in a printing factory could put together a dictionary and that one day that dictionary would become an encyclopedia !!

    I don't understand why people WANT to be able to say they came from a 'monkey' an ape or a gorilla ! Y'all have issues with esteem.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yeah, right, you're the victim. You didn't launch in to insults from the very start at all (I'm being sarcastic).

    Anyway that aside, what about these: Aegyptopithecus, Proconsul, Pierolapithecus, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin etc. They are clearly transitional, in time and morphology, between ancient monkeys and apes. The later two between apes and hominids. Then the 20 odd hominid fossil species clearly show incremental changes, through time and morphology, however exactly they all fit together. Even standing back, Ardipithecus then Australopithecus, then Homo.

    These are all "beast/man". Hence they clearly answer your question. More importantly, however precisely they fit together, they show the overall pattern.

    The common ancestor (of what exactly, please define your terms) may be one of the forms mentioned above. But science cannot assume it is. It is very far from likely that we have all species represented by fossils. And how exactly would you know it was?

    And that is exactly the point isn't it. You are performing the Creationist trick of ignoring all other evidence, and demanding "proof" from an impossible source.

    Pay attention and think about it: It is totally false and illogical to say that human evolution rests on finding an exact common ancestor in fossils!!

    Common ancestry between us and living species is evidenced by far far far more than just fossils. For example:

    Vestiges, eg. our non-functional L-gulano-γ-lactone oxidase gene (used for Vitamin C synthesis in non-primates). The huge number of non-functional odorant receptor genes, the non-functional RT6 protein gene, the non-functional galactosyl transferase gene, the non-functional TYRL pseudogene, our imperfect eye proteins compared to new world monkeys since our nocturnal ancestors etc. etc. Not to mention the common retrovirus insertions in us and living apes that I have given you before (but which you ignored in your fervour of demanding proof from an impossible source).

    Then there are genetic clocks, based on mutation rates, which place the separation between us and our closest relatives roughly around 5 million years ago, consistent with the fossils. Our merged chromosome 2, present and past biogeography, developmental biology and embryology (creationist mud throwing aside), plain genetic similarity, and etc etc.

    And this is just a sound bite of the huge, vast scientific evidence, that is all consistent with humans evolution. Scientists are not idiots. If you have a better theory that explains ALL the evidence, lets hear it and scrutinise it.

    I've wasted enough time, you can respond with insults now.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I am curious why anyone cannot accept the theory of Evolution. Of course evidence exists that supports this theory. Paleontologists have and continue to find evidence of creatures who lived in the Paleozoic period, Mesozoic era, Precambrian Eon, and I suggest you go to the wikipedia site, and just choose one of the resources that will give you a better understanding of the time it took for this planet to create an environment that would support the beginning of life, a one celled entity. You have not looked very hard if you can find no evidence of the development of our first ancestor as it evolved from a common ancestor. I am intelligent, knowledgeable, and a seeker of information. If you really want to find specimens that were the ancestors of the animals that now exist on this continent, and others, go to the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, and enjoy their museum. Good luck, and good looking.

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