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  • Funny!!!! allmost religion revelation - one piece of stone and Vast Imagination Mutter

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  • ap bio swaggggggg

  • yeah original tetrapods eventually evolved to lay amniotic eggs which were eggs seen in modern reptiles and amphibians. This then allowed the evolutation of dinosaurs

  • Evolution is stupid. Atheists will believe the most absurd things no matter how crazy, as long as they don't have to concede there is a God. Design is OBVIOUS, and non-believers have to keep telling themselves "there is no design, there is no design" LOL and concoct elaborate drawings and imagine wild scenarios, ALL make-believe. If you want to BELIEVE that a fish crawled out of the mud and grew legs and was the ancestor humans, that's fine, but don't call it science. Admit it's RELIGION.

  • @DarthHater100 darthhater100 aka shockofgod this is his troll name

  • @DarthHater100 i wish i was as simple minded as you, but sorry, some of us arent fucking retarded and actually want to learn about the world. go back to your pretty little nursery book with the funny stories and characters and leave intelligent conversation to us big boys :)

  • @BlueBuzzards Ah, like a typical atheist, you can`t get your point across without using vulgarities. Why are you so angry? Nobody is forcing you to believe the Bible, nor does anybody force you to pay for it to be indoctrinated into your children. But evolutionists DO force their crazy beliefs to be taught to children, at tax payer expense. No one has ever seen people come from monkeys, evolution is not even science. Please give me you best piece of evidence for evolution.

  • @DarthHater100 Explore this channel more. There is a ton of evidence for evolution on it.

    No one is saying humans came from monkeys. We share a common ancestor with monkeys, just like we share a common ancestor with all living things. Our common ancestor with monkeys was just relatively recent.

  • Highly dramatized, and somewhat missleading in its implication that evolution would be a concious act rather than a refinement by unconcious filtering.

    Otherwise not bad.

  • mammals are not tetrapods. we may have four limbs, but that is not the entire definition. i found on wikipedia that tetrapods are four limbed animals who LAY EGGS ADAPTED FOR LAND. since we do not lay any kind of egg, we can't lay eggs adapted for land, therefor, we are not tetrapods. we are mammals.

  • @bonoboperson This is an inaccurate description of a tetrapod. In addition, the platypus and echidna (who are both monotremes, a subset of mammals) do lay eggs. Other mammals eggs are retained to live birth either through early development in the case of marsupial mammals or until later development in placental mammals.

  • @djarm67 oops i think i got that wrong, i was refering to amniotic tetrapods. i've got this arguement with some guy about whether we evolved from amphibians. he said we evolved from amniotic tetrapods and not amphibians. while it is true that we are amniotic tetrapods, but amniotic tetrapods had to evolve from non amniotic tetrapods, right?

  • @bonoboperson Whilst it is true that we did not evolve from "modern" amphibians, our ancestoral tetrapod line did include amphibians. Review the species with transitional features such as Tiktaalik, Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Whatcheeria and Tulerpeton.

  • Thanks for uploading this, was really useful for studying evolution! Cheers

  • i wish they put animals animations in this insted of this

  • 412 creationists watched this

  • @Dubickimus ill bet my ass

  • @Dubickimus No, Creationists didn't watch this, if they did they would get an education and they don't want that.

  • @gregrutz i wish i could give you an award for that comment, i LOLed

  • @gregrutz creationists suck, they are an insult to Christians :)

  • @Dubickimus what is creationists? sorry for my ignorance:)

  • @seedo201 a creationist is someone who believes the Bible's account on the origin of life: "god created Adam and eve in the garden of eden and all of the animals at the same time.

  • @Dubickimus yeah that makes sense:) but I think that doesnt disaprove that there is a creator but may be support it

  • @Dubickimus But 1211 people still has brains.

  • I luvz meh sum tetrapods

  • thank you thank you shame about bible bashing bot disliking

  • i believe in god. but not the bible. i believe he just let the universe do its thing with a pust here or there

  • @wahhho same

  • One of my favourite docos. I've rewatched it several times now and it is as awesome as ever. Horizon docos are badass, and I love the sense of humour they thread through this one.

  • Please let's not talk about any creation myths, specially those of a book called the bible. Evolution is a fact and fairytales from the bronze age have no place in modern science.

  • Evolution is the only game in town!!

  • 412 people are fish out of water with no limbs X__X

  • 412 people are reality deniers

  • We have a Christian vote bot. Please thumbs up, rational thinkers!

  • "Scientists believe that long ago a fish came up onto the land, grew legs and started to walk" Lol. "Scientists" are just as daft as Bible nutters!

  • First we were told we evolved from monkey. Now it is a fish. So where the fish came from?

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  • @mmnasir1000

    You're talking about two completely different eras. All tetrapods (Reptiles, Mammals, Birds, amphibians) are descendants of fish. 

  • @mmnasir1000 when Earth was created, the first living being were the beings with only 1 cell and they were created at the water, because it was the easiest environment to survive.. With the past of time, one of those cells,was incorporated in another one, with the objective of having a simbiotic relationship (a relation bettwen 2 beings in which they both take advantage). with that, there were create beings with more then 1 cell. With the evolutiion, there were evolving into otherspecies(fishs)

  • and, as they say in this video, when this one fish came out to land, it grew legs and formed the first tetrapod. with the reproduction of this tetrapod, there were created more species and depending on the evironment and on the mutations they suffered, they evolved into diferent species. one of those species belonged to the family of monkeys. evolution is always hapening, and with the evolution of the monkey, there were formed species very similar to usThe homo sapiens. thats how we were created

  • @OVRLDD

    You clearly have no idea of even the basics of evolution, so please stop embarassing yourself.

  • so, resuming in a very short way: Unicelular beings --> Pluricelular Beings --> Fishes --> Missing Link --> Monkeys --> HUMAN.

  • This documentary is full of shit. All the time it sounds like animals suddenly "mutate" into another one, all of the sudden. Why o why do they get this so wrong? No emphasizes on how long it takes for a >species< to slightly change and accumulate these changes, until it has to be considered a new one. If the environment changes too quickly hardly any species could survive and adapt. No wonder that creatiotards get this sooo wrong.

  • I think I'm turning into a TetraPak

  • @AndyWhite007 Can I drink your contents, then? Are you a juice box?

  • GREAT!

  • its simple as this....NOBODY knows the damn true. NO REAL HARD EVIDENCE except all THEORIES. its just a whole guessing game. we all have our OWN beliefs in our own shit. everybody on some bullshit here

  • @sadxgurl you maybe want to look up the definition of a scientifi theory.

    the bible for example or ID / creationism are not scientific theories because they have no supporting evidence for their hypothesis.

  • @sadxgurl acientific theory ain't your normal theory. the normal world theory would be a hypothesis in the scientific world.

  • Where did the water come from?

  • @knowwaie

    The water where? Water on earth? It formed through the bonding of Hydrogen and Oxygen at between 0c and 100c.

    It's on other planets and moons too- just not in liquid form.

  • @ResiusOnline The water on the earth.

    Oxygen only comes from plants, as far as we know. They have all this oxygen coming before any plant life.

    In outer space. Other planets or ice meteors, aren't sure to contain oxygen. Very little if any at all.

    It seems a stretch of speculation on their part. Should i just keep silent and take their word for it?

  • @knowwaie

    Listen kid.

    The water on earth comes from.

    1. Hydrogen and Oxygen dispelled from a star when it goes supernova.

    2. Ice Comets

    3. Ice Meteors

    "Oxygen only comes from plants, as far as we know."

    Are you kidding? Do you not know what a supernova is?

    "ice meteors, aren't sure to contain oxygen."

    Ice = bonded hydrogen and OXYGEN. Basic logic...

  • @ResiusOnline You're retarded?

    You've never heard of solid hydrogen? I guess it's not logical....

    Oh, so supernovas brought water to the earth? Talk about calling upon the supernatural.

    How old are you? If you don't mind me asking..

  • @knowwaie

    "Oh, so supernovas brought water to the earth?"

    That's taking it out of context. Like I could say "OH so water just floats up and rain happens then?" and you might disagree with rain.

    More complex elements are created when a star dies. That material is ejected and eventually through a long cycle over millions of years those materials are drawn together through gravity and as rocks ect come together the total mass and gravity therefore get stronger and more elements are drawn to it.

  • @ResiusOnline First of all. You might think in your naivity that we've sampled the elements from these supernovas, but that's not the case. They are determined by the colors they emit. So the color red would be hydrogen (though there are other elements that emit the same color but we assume it must be hydrogen). Green would be oxygen. For all we know the colors we see could be caused by the waves passing through our atmosphere.

    But this is granted regardless.

  • @ResiusOnline Secondly. You're talking about a stroke of luck beyond odds. Those stars are very far away and not subject to earths gravity. If if were the case that over millions of years these elements would reach the earth, then we would expect that these elements are CONSTANTLY reaching the earth. Thus constantly adding more elements.

    People don't seem to understand this point. It takes millions of years? Today is a million years since then. So why is it not continuous from the beginning?

  • @knowwaie

    I meant the sun, not OTHER stars.

    You are an absolute moron.

    Stars don't die all the time, it happens every 1000 years or so.

    Please get some sort of primary education- please.

  • @ResiusOnline Hah, you're so retarded.

    Do you know how many stars there are? Oh, so they are on some cycle that they can only die once every 1000 years?....

    Oh so the sun exploded and brought oxygen to the earth?...

    Holy shit kid. Lack of education is the least of you problems.

  • @knowwaie

    Now they're not on a "cycle" but they live for roughly 10 billion years.

    "Oh so the sun exploded and brought oxygen to the earth?..."

    Basically yes. But not the sun, a star before the sun.

    You're the kid here, and for the last time- get an education. This is like pulling teeth.

  • @ResiusOnline Pick a subject and i know infinitely more about it than you do. Don't get cocky with me.

    Stop responding, you've already proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you are severely mentally handicapped.

    By the way, only pre adolescents ever say "read a science book" or "get an education". You're making it abundantly clear that you are a little kid.

  • @knowwaie

    Well you've just been disproven kid- maybe you learned something, maybe you didn't.

    I hope you did.

    "Pick a subject and i know infinitely more about it than you do. "

    Uh-huh.

  • @ResiusOnline How old are you? Honestly. I'm curious now.

  • @ResiusOnline I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

    How do scientist 'know' that it is a nuclear fusion? By the colors right? Exactly. There is still no hard evidence that oxygen is produce from supernovas. I know you take for granted what scientists tell you and it's never been challenged yet. I'm sure i'm alone in this opinion.

    Now, i'll even grant you this. We'll take their word for it. You're saying that a supernova was what produce the water on the earth. That's completely ridiculous.

  • @knowwaie scientists get constantly challenged and tested, that is the whole idea of the peer review process.

  • @ResiusOnline You kids get dumber with every generation. If it were up to people like you, we would never progress. You know that progress comes from correction? Am i not supposed to question what's established? Then from where will progress come?

    If you're a 15 year old kid disregard this. Go play with your toys and leave all the thinking up to the adults. You wont understand for many years.

  • @knowwaie

    Here's a description of idiots like you

    ehow.com/how-does_5057015_elem­ents-formed-stars.html

  • @ResiusOnline This isn't what we were talking about... You said supernovas produced the oxygen and created the water on the earth..

    Dude, are you retarded? You're completely changing the subject.

  • I'm currently reading "Written in Stone," which got me interested in a good documentary about tetrapod evolution. What's the title of this documentary? Is it just tetrapod evolution? or is it missing link? I'm having a terrible time tracking this down anywhere else but youtube.

  • i have asked many people who fed t rex on noahs ark ,plus i aint doing it !!!!

  • When was this produced?

  • @MangiferaZomfshark Checked and it's 2001

  • i really wish they'd do this without the melodrama.

  • @HumanVersion Agreed, so dumbed down and annoying. Not being snotty or anything, it just gets on my nerves.

  • "scientists believe a fish ame on land grew legs and started to walk"

    Fucking god. This is why I hate pop-press science.

    No. No no and ****ing no. Scientists do not believe that. No informed biologist believs that. That is as bad as any creationist strawman.

  • where did the fish came from? and what if we throw a person in the ocean will he/she grow gills?

  • @Chicano2005 go educate yourself...

  • @Chicano2005 evolution doesn't happen in one generation. it takes thousands of generations, changing slightly every generation. it's like growth. everyday the person seems the same, but they ARE changing, but very slightly.

  • @Tazy50 why don't the scientist try to prove "theory of evolution" reversing it? Putting an animal in a different habitat to see if it evolves new traits.

  • @Chicano2005 because it takes thousands of years to devevop the slightest changes in a species...

  • @Chicano2005 we have with chickens in the lab, we produced chickens with teeth and clawed fingers. without changing genes. the'yr still there just turned off.

  • @fishtankbank Im waiting on the "dino-chicken". the one that's supposed to resemble a dinosaur!

  • @Chicano2005

    super bugs aka germs

  • @Chicano2005 Animals don't evolve, species > breeding populations do.

    They already did it with dogs, but creationists just say that is micro-evolution.

  • I think the mudskipper alone shows how evolution could come about. It's a fish, but in many ways it reminds one of an amphibian.

    It's like how in molluscs you see all those stages of eye-development. And when I see a mudskipper I can imagine that that's certainly one possible way a proto-amphibian might have lived. I mean they actually spend more time on land then in the water!

  • This doco is awesome and these palaeontologists hilarious. "We are tetropods. To whit: one, two, three, four!"

  • Christians have no respect for these people that spend their entires lives researching these things for the good of everyone. Don't be so close minded

  • Why do you heathen atheists hate God?

  • @manco82 No, that would require belief in a god to whom we could turn our anger. But we do believe that facts and evidence are the way to go, and having beliefs that reflect reality will result in the best lives. We display the evidence available, because we think it is important, and because it has shown to be useful. This is not about religion, it’s not a response to religion.

  • @Andzillasan You and the other heathens are going to burn in hell.

  • @manco82 I don’t operate under threats. Especially if there’s nothing behind them. As I believe I just told you, evidence is required.

  • @manco82 your own ignorance gives you away just to help the few brain cells you do have from succumbing to atrophy i'll try and give you some education. firstlya heretic would be a group like catholics/mennonites to your religion a heathen would be a jew or an islamic man or a pagan. we are atheists since we are not theists.

  • BBC always seems to get the good documentaries

    Still I feel you, other nations are too busy with other problems such as getting food for its citizens than trying to force feed religion.

  • why do we even listen to creatonists? These people look at the Flinstones and say yep that's how it was then ^ ^ anyways nice vid keep putting them on youtube maybe one day they'll get the picture

  • Awesome! Thanks so much for posting. Keep up the good work.

  • Thanks for posting this, am currently reading Shubin's 'Finding your inner fish' so it's very relevant. Great book if you haven't read it.

  • @colourmegone Shubin's "Your inner fish" is a fantastic book and I would recommend it to all.

  • @djarm67 its a pity that creationists need to use underhanded methods to try and get their point across, rather than evidence. Keep up the good work of posting!!!

  • how did creationism come from a joke to a threat, the day our schools subject students to this bullshit will mark the downfall of the civil world

  • It's ok there ignorant. But,... If they were truly "Right" then they'd would embrace this information and reserach it and use it to validate their (really really stupid) Claims.

  • lol its 3:05 AM.. i think ill jus watch em all XD fark it why not!!

  • Wait a minute. the fish would of already needed to have strong functioning legs to crawl out of its drying mud pool. You mean to say it already had them? Not a very good way to exsplain how they evolved. Someone exsplain this to me I must of missed something.. how would a fish who lived in water all its life know how to crawl and where?

  • @zlkimagenX we know from tiktaalik that it had wrists, but not really strong legs. so that it could support itself and look out of the water, but not go too far. However, as this was advantageous, it was selected for until legs were perfected.

  • @zlkimagenX: As they said, Mudskippers do it. They have only true fins. And in addition, they have to have more adaptations than just fins->limbs. They have to develop a way to absorb oxygen out of the water, and to keep water inside from evaporating; they have to have ways to keep their viscera from being crushed while not buoyed by water. There is more to the story...watch on.

  • We have a strange lineage.

  • 9:27 thats a triops

  • Like! Thanks for the upload!

  • The only thing that gets in my nerves are these people on either side who say they can't be reconciled.

    If the bible is 100% correct then what are all these weird rocks we keep finding? Then again there are some suspicious holes in Darwin's theory that does make one wonder.

  • @spectre111: About those holes. What are they?

  • Terrible narration.

    Referring to "that fish" in the singular, as if there was only one individual that crawled out onto the land and somehow miraculously reproduced... It's one of the biggest misconceptions of evolution, and I'm sure they know better... It's just dreadfully careless speech.

  • @Bueller007 I am sure nobody is that retarded to think that only one fish evolved. It's not a scientific paper, for fuck's sake.

  • @redfoxonstilts

    Wrong. That kind of typological thinking is one of the main reasons why people don't accept evolution.

    Even people who accept evolution (but know little of it) often say things like "I believe in evolution, but the only thing I don't understand is where the first member of a new species found its mate." Creationists say far more idiotic shit still.

  • @Bueller007: Not really. The word fish has several meanings, among them a collective for a type of animal that lives in the water, as in "Fish for sale here!" I think you are just being a little over-particular here.

  • Hahahaha! Votebots thumbing down... What a bunch of sore losers. xD

  • i don't think the fish or amphibians were the first to go on land....

    Infact I'm pretty sure it would've been the trilobites or sea scorpions... Some sort of sea insect would've most likely been the first to come on land since they had an evolutionary head start

  • @skinnywhop87

    As a matter of fact, scientistis are quite positive that the insects come to land far more before than the fish or amphibians

  • @skinnywhop87 Plants were the first to colonize the land, together with fungi (probably). Arthopods (insects, crustaceans, trilobites, sea scorpions, etc) followed. One of the major reasons vertebrates became successful on land is that there was already a well-established food source with an open niche available for predators.

  • Hey, no props or shout-outs for subphylum Myriapoda, the centipedes and millipedes? They were the first land animals!

  • @CristinaFernandez

    i would think its the trilobites for sure, because other isopods and early crustaceans have hair-like/gill like structures under their bodies which retain

    moisture, also it would make more sense for prey animals to seek shelter first on the land for short periods of time, long enough for their predators to lose interest and seek other options

  • Actually the related group the Lobopodians probably made it before the others

  • The first land animals were from subphylum Myriapoda - the centipedes and millipedes! You can tell because they have a structure like amphibians that is problematic in retaining moisture.

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  • Why are some people so resistant to truth? There is abundant evidence of common ancestry and evolution. The fossils are not only in the rocks but are also in the genes. Even if there were no fossils at all, there is STILL enough evidence to show evolution happens. Get over it.

  • "Came onto land and then grew legs"

    I don't think so.

  • @gregrutz Before you state soemthign like this you should look at a fish known as a mudskipper. They have fins that they can use as legs. They pull themselves along the ground with their fins. And they use their skin to breath out of the water.

  • @WaxItYourself

    Fish did not flop onto land and then grow legs. They grew legs and walked onto land.

  • @gregrutz No they didn't. Did you even look up videos and such of a mudskipper? This is more than likely how legs began.Though they were still fish and could not travel on land for any major length of time. And after watching the video exactly the same thing is said.

  • @WaxItYourself Fuck mudskippers, do you think I a some dumb shit creationist.

    The dried up mud puddly theory is wrong.

    The video says, 'A fish came onto the land and then grew legs." Wrong.

  • @gregrutz "An Ape comes down from tree and walked straight"...hope this statement clears the doubt....An "Ape" means one of the many species of apes....like wise "A Fish comes out of water and grew legs" mean a species of fish evolved it self to grew legs like organs and came out of water....In English there can be difference between "fish" and "Fish" both are pronunciated the same but has different meaning all together...Hope if i m even a little help...thanks

  • @WaxItYourself

    Wrong,  go to part 4 @ 4:00

    Legs first, the came on land.

  • greg, when did I ever state that you were a creationist? My point was that the mudskipper is currently developing legs.

  • this might help you understand where arems and legs came from. tiktaalik look him up then this will end it

  • But then explain how mudskippers came onto land WITHOUT legs! And try do not use ad-hominem, please.

  • They walk out on their fins.

  • gregrutz is basically right, but there's more to it. Land vertebrate's closest cousins today are called "lobe-finned fishes" as opposed to the ray-finned fishes. These are fish that have true bones in their fins, which make them more powerful movers through muddy shallows. Imagine fish living in tidal lowlands which frequently go dry. When a pond dries up, fish that can use their fins to traverse over land to find another pond will be better at survival.

  • So natural selection favors stronger bones for scurrying around. But fish also need to breathe. The lungfish shows us how this happened--he is able to use his swim bladder (an internal air pouch which fish use as depth control) as a source of oxygen.

    So now we have fish with strong fin-legs and swim bladders that can be used for breathing, making periodic excursions out of water. Food on land is abundant (insects,) so natural selection favored fish that could stay on land for longer periods.

  • in short: mudskippers came onto land with strong bony fins, not legs.

  • Except mudskippers aren't even close to the clade that tetrapods arose from. Mudskippers are bony fish. The Coelocanth is closer.

  • The drying pools theory is a painfully long situation, but so are most other developments. 1. Mudskipper-like creatures spend all time in water (tens of thousands of years) 2. Creatures spend most time in water 3. They spend half of their time out of water, and retreat when that blistering sun is prevalent. 4. Spend most time out of water. 5. Spend very little time in water, only going in for food or retreat. Over this span of time, the fish grows fingers to walk. This isn't instant.

  • The drying pools theory has been rejected though. All the early tetrapods were

    1. Giant Predators

    2. very muscular.

    3. Found in devonian RIVER DELTAS. not drying pools.

    We don't find them in places like africa were there were pools (which probably weren't drying anyway.

  • @gregrutz: Don't spoil the suspense here, gregrutz. Leave 'em guessing, just like the zoologists of the 70s.

  • The narration following 1:46 is completely wrong. Scientists believe no such thing. This is simply making it easier for creationists to spread lies about what scientists actually believe.

  • Agree. It's cringeworthy and almost made me stop watching altogether.

    Not a high grade from me because of that.

  • how ever Bible is one of the greatest books writtern because of the role it plays on civilization, but you cant be serious if you believe all that

  • haa why even argue, Bible and all that were books of lies.

    ha ha ha

    lies lies lies lies

    Create the world in 6 days, "let there be light and there was light"

    ha ha ha ha nonsense.

  • @goodluckpeace44

    yeah but in God years

    6 year is like 6000 years of human years

    something like that

  • @mark4kimm 6 days, not years.. but yeah, ofcourse the world was created in 6000 years or what ever.. the dinosaurs and fossils are just a test of our belief. And isnt i just amazing how he created the earth and the landscapes in the dark?! and theen he created light? what a geenius, ! seriously, I'm shocked over how many still believe this bible bullshit

  • @iris0093

    christians, get the fuck out of here. Big boys are studying important things here, you go play with your unicorns.

  • @iris0093 bitch dont disrespect others beliefs just cuz u dont believe in it. ur ass wasnt raised right to respect anything. get da fuck outta here with your bullshit

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    So much for Tiktaalik as a 'transitional' fossil...

    "Ancient Four-Legged Beasts Leave Their Mark" (ScienceNOW, January 6, 2010)

    "Researchers have uncovered the earliest evidence of four-legged animals. Footprints and tracks preserved in the mud of an abandoned quarry in southeastern Poland date back 395 million years, UPENDING accepted thinking about when and where land animals first emerged...

  • 2 of 3

    "In some of the prints, individual digits can be made out. That means land animals already had feet 9 million years BEFORE the finlike structures of Tiktaalik and Panderichthys. In addition, some of the tracks show an animal walking with a diagonal, coordinated gait impossible for finned creatures...

  • 3 of 3

    "Other paleontologists are taken aback by the discovery of the tracks. 'We thought we'd pinned down the origin of limbed tetrapods,' says Jennifer Clack of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. 'We have to RETHINK the whole thing.'"

  • Footprints show tetrapods walked on land 18m years earlier than thought according to Fossil footprints found in southern poland lead to a radical rethink of the evolution of the first four-legged animals or 'tetrapods'

    Until now, experts had believed that the earliest tetrapod fossils are 375 million years old

    However, the footprint tracks are 10 million years older than the oldest elpistostegid body fossils. Suggesting they are NOT transitional forms.

    Professor Per Ahlberg and Jenny Clack

  • No. Theories and Facts and laws for that matter are different things. A theory will never become any of those things.

    Gravity is a law in the sense that it can be used in calculation to constantly give the same results. ie terminal velocity, or escape velocity. The theory part comes in when you are trying to explain why it happens ie. relativity.

    The theory will never become a fact or a law. This is the bases of the "only a theory" jibe often used by undereducated creationists.

  • There is the theory of gravity, gravitational law and the fact of gravity.

    Evolution is a fact.

    There is also the theory of evolution that explains that fact.

  • Thank you for posting this great science video! Highly appreciated.

  • Watch till the end before rating.

  • I cannot believe there are people still debating Evolution. Why don't we debate whether the earth is flat next?

  • Evolution is a theory. So while evidence clearly supports it, it is not 100% set in stone. Other options, such as creationism, though highly unlikely are also theoretically possible.

  • Gravity is a theory. So while evidence clearly supports it, it is not 100%set in stone. Other options such as Atlas holding the world on his back, though highly unlikely are also theoretically possible.

  • Well in your logic, assuming Atlas was a Titan condemned by Zeus to hold the sky forever, yea he totally could.

    By not set in stone, I mean although "theory" is the most accurate scientific explanation it's a theory because it has not been disproved. So all though chances are its 99.99% true, it cannot be Law unless it cannot be disproved. this is why so many things are theories(e.g. gravity)

  • Which theory of gravity you are talking about? Newtonian? or general Relativity?

  • Thank you for putting it so well.

  • "Evolution is a theory"

    That's not correct. Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution explains that fact.

  • @DreyZab

    Seriously, we are not just talking about some evidence here. We are talking about every fossil ever found and classified, all of genetics, all of comparitive anatomy, it's like arriving at a car and claiming the pieces have spontaneously arranged themselves from bit's of other cars.

  • I understand the evidence. And don't get me wrong I believe in evolution.

    And forgive me, artyfart2 is right. The "Theory of Evolution" explains evolution. Evolution is obviously a fact. It's the "Theory" itself , which implies humans and all living creatures evolved from a common ancestor by the means originally described by Darwin , that is the object of debate.

  • So are you saying speciation is in question, common ancestry or just making a statement that no theory can ever be 100% certain?

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  • or the theory if intelligent falling