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arguments for Evolution
I'm working on a paper(for fun) on Creation vs. Evolution and I am clueless about what the arguments for Evolution are....anbody able to help?
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- besleybean
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Re: arguments for Evolution
Fossil record.
Specifically skull development.
Adaptation.
Genetics
Group co-operation...most of the basics you'll get even from wiki.
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- Harriet
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Re: arguments for Evolution
It's like comparing violins to Bach ... what is better? 
But you said, you want it for fun. Do you have some kind of idea already how it should be like?
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Which is better? Why, the one that is real, of course.
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- tobeornot221b
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Re: arguments for Evolution
To me, Evolution IS creation.
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- horserider99
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Re: arguments for Evolution
Genetics don't really prove evolution though. Because of how complex they are, it's more of a creationist argument.
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Re: arguments for Evolution
Do you want to talk about creation or creationists?
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Re: arguments for Evolution
I already have tons of arguments for creationists, but I'd like to see what people come up with.
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Re: arguments for Evolution
I meant in terms if selective breeding, sorry...we can show how man can do it purposefully, we mimic evolution.
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another random thing....I believe it was somewhere between 1970's and 1990's they recreated some chemical from the human body in a test tube...what was it?
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Re: arguments for Evolution
You don't mean the discovery of DNA, do you?
But yes. Microscopes can now show genetic mutation.
That's how evolution occurs: the mutation in genes.
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it was a protein, I believe....I'll look it up. 
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Re: arguments for Evolution
Creationists are claiming violins exist because Bach exists
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We know violins exist, that isn't the issue!
We can show the evolution of music and instruments, just as we can the evolution of the species.
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Yes, we know - creationists need something else to "know"
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The chemical created in test tube was actually an amino acid, and it was in 1954....(can't you tell I'm tired? )
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Re: arguments for Evolution
I can provide them with a list, free of charge.
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So you're making a list about evolution vs. creationism?
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Is this essay written yet?
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- horserider99
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Re: arguments for Evolution
besleybean wrote:
Is this essay written yet?
Not quite...
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