Evolution is real because that is what the evidence says. You can come up with gymnastics to explain away the evidence, but you are not changing the facts of what we observe. I can come up with many far fetched ideas, but without evidence they’re worthless.

Science, or at least the scientific method, is not “Religion 2.0” because faith is not a requisite for belief. If you can replicate the outcomes of experiment with further experiment or confirm the predictions of hypothesis with observation, you are engaging with the real world in a more objective way than Just Making Shit Up™.

Read https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/ and learn something.

Your comment reveals you don’t have a clue how science works.

since science appears like religion 2.0

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Evolution as a theory predates our understanding of genetics by many decades. Even before we were able to sequence genes, we were using morphology and a variety of other factors to determine relationships between living organisms.

Well, along came genetics. We discovered that neutral mutations in DNA tend to happen at consistent rates, which meant we could compare DNA of two organism to see how similar they were, and could even use their differences to estimate how long ago they had a common ancestor.

How can you “confirm evolution is real?” Sequence the genes of many organisms and compare them. Build your very own tree of life.

Google “Galapagos Island”

You can never truly confirm any scientific theory, unless by confirm you mean something other than prove definitively. All you can do is keep looking for evidence that disproves it and failing. And people have done that, like, a lot over the last 100 years or so. You can become an evolutionary biologist and do the work yourself, but those people have also helpfully published their work so you can just go read it.

The thing about science vs bible is this, if all human knowledge got lost today we would eventually find all the same natural laws we found until today. But the same wouldn’t happen with the bible, it would be lost forever.

To really find out why evolution is real you would have to study biology to understand all the evidence beyond a superficial level.

Does anyone notice that OP and his personal assistant won’t engage with the well written comments on this post? Only the snarky or non-substantive comments get their attention.

I’m starting to think this question may not be asked in good faith.

Shocked, I tell you, that kind of behavior in this day and age.

You can do it yourself and see it firsthand. You can breed plants and artificially select the traits you want to see in future generations.

Your concern is very valid. We cannot really prove that we evolved from amoeba besides saying that we do share some similar dna. Well they say banana shares similar dna to humans too…

You don’t “confirm” it. It’s an attempt to describe a system/outcome. It’s a model of a system, not the system itself and no model is perfect, because all models are our attempt to understand and describe things, and there is no such thing as perfect understanding.

However, it’s a highly accurate model, that explains things very well. So, either we will find that one day, we make a brand new, better model (this seems unlikely given the accuracy of the current model, but possible). Or, more likely, we continue to come to a better understanding of the system, and improve the model we use to describe it.

@mez popsci.com/science/article/201…

it’s important to really explain evolution to folks. as someone that grew up in churches but always have been very scientific… when you really talk to them simply, they kind of get on board. like ‘wouldn’t it make sense that bright colored weak prey would die quicker than camouflaged prey’ - they seem to be able to make that hurdle.

If you look at all the traits animals and plants have, there are correlations and patterns unrelated to the environment, consistent only with a pattern of descent with modification.

For example, all the animals that produce milk also have fur, while all the animals with beaks and hollow bones also have feathers.

These groups of correlated organisms are found regardless of their environment, so penguins have all the bird traits even though they live in the ocean, seals have all the mammal traits even though they live in the ocean.

This pattern only has one consistent explanation: life on earth is a result of descent with modification: evolution.

The thing that makes something ‘scientific’, rather than ‘faith-based’ is that it can be proven wrong. Think of it as our best guess so far, rather than some incontrovertible truth.

I am sure a basic search will return plenty of well researched and evidenced books on evolution.

As an aside I will say that I heard an interview with a data scientist whose recent work had found that genetic mutations weren’t random (in some way). Which could potentially throw an interesting wrinkle into the theory of evolution, lol. The bloke I heard interviewed stressed his paper had not yet been peer reviewed, and, iIrc, really just pointed towards the possible need for more research. I am just mentioning this as a bit of an aside.