Prove that evolution is real

Prove that evolution is real.

Without ideology.

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mutations are real.
natural selection is self-evident.
ergo evolution.

Genetics account for phenotypic diversity (In combination with environmental factors).
Genetic code is particulate and heritable.
Mutations happen.
Genetic drift happens because Hardy Weinberg population rules don't apply.
Selection factors will statistically affect the population capable of reproduction.

Current extinction events are observable.
Varying species are present in the fossil record during different time intervals such that the chance preservation of only those select individuals during that select time period is exceedingly unlikely, suggesting that new species continuously appear and other species go extinct.

Real world speciation events are observable, either through ring species or through hybrid species or through actively ongoing speciation.
Homology in fossil species and currently living species suggests speciation events in the past that led to currently available species.
For some species such as Axolotl it can be shown that they descend from another species since alterations during the development of the organism can lead to the manifestation of traits of the ancestor species. In the case of the Axolotl this means manifesting Salamander like traits and moving out of a "larval" state.

Mutation is random but statistically rather constant and as such can be used to determine that there are varying genetic distances between species which would suggest divergence of populations and subsequent speciation events in the past.

Nobody knows. Biology isn't a real science. Biologists do nothing but wave their hands.

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I think that since we can see real evolution withing our experience we can even go to the leghts of proving why is not false(see: venom adaptation that go from bacteria to arthropod, or illness adaptation so there is people inmune/resistant to VIH)

Able died by his sister Kayne, then was cursed to be a primate.

evolution has an exceedingly simple definition - the frequency of traits in a population can change over time.

you can set up simple agent-based simulations to observe this yourself. you can look to any number of phenomena in the real world, like the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. you can also just examine it on paper with some simple equations.

evolutionnews.org/2012/07/what_are_the_to_1062011.html

It's funny how I used to believe that evolution was an irrefutable fact when I was in school

>Prove that evolution is real
Look in a mirror. You're a weird harry fish monkey.

>You're a weird harry fish monkey.

Bruh.

literally 1.5+ billion years worth of fossils buried in chronological order from simplest forms of life to current living animals.

do you need anything else?

It's a known fact that god gave us fangs and ear muscles just for the hell of it.

1. Most if not all touted irreducibly complex features aren't irreducibly complex. The eye clearly isn't for instance.
2. Every new generation of a population is an intermediate stage. As such it is not a big wonder as to why not all transitional stages are found in the fossil record.
3. Trees derived from genetic and morphological selection criteria are probably going to be different. Genetic trees are generally seen as reliable but since they are based on the molecular clock which relies on the statistical distribution of mutations that can be influenced by selection and backmutations I can see how it can mess up sometimes.
4. Statistically natural selection is still relevant regardless even though a low selection factor is probably going to favor genetic drift over natural selection.
5. Convergent evolution of physical traits is a given and no big deal since it can typically be shown that they are analogous. Convergent evolution of genetics is something I'm not entirely read up on but certain traits of genetics can lead to patterns in neutral areas like Adenine being the preferentially used Base when repairing DNA for instance and some gene sequences might just be preferentially selected when it comes to proteins.
6. This is abiogenesis. This is not a problem with neo-darwinian evolution.
7. Ernst Haeckel was an idiot.
8. No real idea.
9. These don't consign the theory to death and there is still junk DNA. Having some function doesn't make something non-vestigial.
10. Opinions

Well, you're not a weird hairy starfish, or a weird hairy sea fan, or a weird hairy pine tree.

If you know anything about fish anatomy, you will understand that all vertebrates have significant things in common. We have a common ancestor.

Errors occur in DNA replication
Animals have children
Child's genetic information is determined by DNA of parents
Mutations occur
genotype determines phenotype
Mutations produce new physical traits
Enviromental pressures select for favourable traits
Unfavorable traits reproduce less
Favourable genes become more prevelent in population
And this entire process is called evolution

Prove that mirrors are real.

Without eyes.

While we're on the subject does the whole epigenetics thing where the environment actually influences gene expression make the whole "only random mutations" kind of antiquated? Is the environment more of a "guiding hand" than previously understood (just natural selection)? Or am I misunderstanding epigenetics?

Science doesn't prove shit.
For all I know, this could be all a big trick of a greater being.
But we stay with a logical, falseable idea, and it has stood pretty solidly with things people said here.

>Without ideology.

that makes it a tough one tbhfam

>microevolution is observable so use induction to prove macroevolution
>biochemistry shows that DNA can mutate in the successive generations, and you can't have mutation without evolution
>fossils
>artificial selection works so why not natural?

african american nigger dicks are larger than african nigger dicks due to slavemasters breeding the strongest nigs together. Hence overtime the niggers developed larger penises to steal the white mans women via influence of the porn industry with monetary support from the jews

People with a trait reproduce more than people without the trait.

After multiple generations, the trait is generally more pronounced than it was before.

Read the selfish gene.

He postulates the gene is what is evolving, your body exists because that's the best way the gene found for guaranteeing it's survival through procreation. tl;dr it's just a vessel for the gene, there's nothing special about us we could've easily evolved to be intelligent lizardwhales if earth was all water.

>strong people have big dicks
Too bad it has absolutely no correlation and black people have tiny ebola dicks :(

evolution is a broken theory
personally i think teaching it in schools is akin to teaching creationism

This is simply untrue. The lack of sufficient transitional forms is the main thorn in evolutionary theory's side; Darwin acknowledged the problem himself, and said that they would be discovered with time. This is illogical and hasn't found to have been true.

>hasn't found to have been true.
lol wut?
transitional fossils are found all the time

Antibiotic resistance.

With the current technology to which the public has access, you can prove that the earth is flat if needed. Anything can be created and seen in a display that u might think is a window.

As one said earlier.. prove that mirrors exist without eyes.

Just pick sth that seems logical to you and that can be your own personal real truth. (invisible kitty from X-men comes to me at night:D and watches over me)

>implying a host of intermediate transition fossils haven't been found, and claiming that because "all" of them haven't been found, evolution isn't real
what is cherry picking?

This should have been the first and only reply. Everyone claiming evolution isn't a thing should be forced to get infected with an antibiotic resistant strain of tuberculosis and be given nothing but the antibiotics it resists until they admit that heredity is a thing and determines the emergence of traits.