Stage Blue and Evolution Theory

[Annoynymous]

According to evolution theory, there were no first man. Our old form was ape and we evolved for millions of years and got the present features as "human".

What i have seen from my early age is that religious people in my society tend to aggressively deny evolution theory. I have heard things like Darwin is stupid, he is so wrong about human, he is ignorant and so on.

Religious people believe that the first man was adam and he was sent as human by god. This is the truth and whoever denies that is actually ignorant.

For that reason, i did not studied evolution in my childhood and teenage because i blindly fell into the religious beliefs until i had decided to test the water and open my mind.

I although don't  know if the evolution theory is correct or not. What is your view on it?

[trenton]

I studied this in high school and college.  Based on the evidence I was shown, evolution as science thinks of it in animals is a very likely theory.  A common argument comes from fossil evidence from different time periods.  The time can be detected by how deep the fossils were buried, for example the dinosaurs are below one black layer of ash across the world.  The fossils can then be taken from different time periods and then compared.  This is where we can observe similarities in the animals along with gradual changes.  For example, an animal similar to a modern horse had three toes.  As newer fossils were gathered, the fossils looked more and more like modern hooves and a modern horse.

A second argument comes from homologous structures.  The textbook definition is "homologous structures are structural features with a common evolutionary origin". One example could be the tail bone in humans which is similar to a tailbone in a monkey.  This suggests that these creatures may have had common ancestors which is backed by the similarities in our DNA to monkeys.  In biology our DNA is very close to monkeys.

Finally, vestigial structures are bones or parts of the body which are useless now, but could have been useful to ancestors.  Two common examples are wisdom teeth in humans.  These have to be pulled, but our ancestors may have had to eaten raw meat in order to survive, but they are useless now.  Similar ancestors to humans also have a smaller brain, and skull, but a larger mouth.  It is possible, that cooking and a change in diet guides our evolution to what it is now.  A second example of a vestigial structure is the hair on our arms.  It is possible that our ancestors were more commonly exposed to directly to extreme tempertures, but now we have less hair on our arms.

https://www.thoughtco.com/about-vestigial-structures-1224771

The reason I am not totally sure of evolution is because it is hard to directly observe and prove in the way that science means it because it is hard to observe evolution directly if it takes so long.  Thus, evolution is a very probable theory given the evidence, but it is hard to know for sure.  Meanwhile, your religious beliefs were making you close minded, but you recognized it, good job.

  I would like to tell you that as time passes, religion is becoming more open to evolution, one example is Ben Shapiro although I am not saying he is good or bad in this post.  There is a middle ground that God as religion understands it, can guide evolution which to actualized.org would be considered a form of creation.  This does at least demonstrate that religious beliefs change over time.  This can be considered another form of evolution outside of how science thinks of it in animals.  Technology is another easy example, and there are many others including art styles across centuries all the way back to cave paintings.  In terms of how science thinks of it, evolution is very likely.