If you are willing to accept that there are generally two branches of complex organisms (vertebrates and invertebrates), further accept that there are three primary forms of rock (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary), and that all scientific proof backs up the supposition that rock takes a long time to form, then evolution is a theory only in name.
No human bones have ever been found any deeper than the most superficial of layers of rock. The deeper you go into rock, the more you find a pattern emerge: vertebrates exist only in the most recently formed rock, whereas invertebrates can be found much, much deeper and further back in time. In itself, this is proof of evolution; that creatures around today evolved from a different form more distantly in the past. Having a sample of your DNA will quickly go so far as to prove where you evolved from even more recently. But let's delve a little more into the more immediately observable.
There are sightless spiders in deep, dark caves. In fact, they have no eyes at all. But they do have large hair strands that sense air movement. Were they spontaneously created to exist only in dark caves and nowhere else, or did their ancestors make the necessary evolution shifts that allowed that species to continue on?
If you go deep enough in the oceans, almost all marine life lacks pigment and is sightless. Were they suddenly transported down to the depths without eyes and without pigment, where neither are needed?
There are species of butterflies and moths that adapt in as little as a single generation to changing conditions in their environment by changing the pigment and patterns on their bodies to more ably blend in to the environment and evade predators.
We have an appendix that serves no current purpose. In larger grazers it is enlarged and assists in breaking down plant material. Ours is so small as to almost not be there at all and if toxins build up in it we have it removed and suffer absolutely no ill affects with it gone. This is because we are no longer eaters of berries and tubers. We have a much more varied diet that includes larger portions of meat and fruit. The little fiber we get from grains and other plants can be handled in our large and small intestines adequately. We get backackes because our spines are not adequetely supported by our lower torso's, but we needed to be upright because it gave us an advantage over those that didn't.
No human bones have ever been found any deeper than the most superficial of layers of rock. The deeper you go into rock, the more you find a pattern emerge: vertebrates exist only in the most recently formed rock, whereas invertebrates can be found much, much deeper and further back in time. In itself, this is proof of evolution; that creatures around today evolved from a different form more distantly in the past. Having a sample of your DNA will quickly go so far as to prove where you evolved from even more recently. But let's delve a little more into the more immediately observable.
There are sightless spiders in deep, dark caves. In fact, they have no eyes at all. But they do have large hair strands that sense air movement. Were they spontaneously created to exist only in dark caves and nowhere else, or did their ancestors make the necessary evolution shifts that allowed that species to continue on?
If you go deep enough in the oceans, almost all marine life lacks pigment and is sightless. Were they suddenly transported down to the depths without eyes and without pigment, where neither are needed?
There are species of butterflies and moths that adapt in as little as a single generation to changing conditions in their environment by changing the pigment and patterns on their bodies to more ably blend in to the environment and evade predators.
We have an appendix that serves no current purpose. In larger grazers it is enlarged and assists in breaking down plant material. Ours is so small as to almost not be there at all and if toxins build up in it we have it removed and suffer absolutely no ill affects with it gone. This is because we are no longer eaters of berries and tubers. We have a much more varied diet that includes larger portions of meat and fruit. The little fiber we get from grains and other plants can be handled in our large and small intestines adequately. We get backackes because our spines are not adequetely supported by our lower torso's, but we needed to be upright because it gave us an advantage over those that didn't.
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