How Evolution REALLY Works, Part I

Link to interactive evolution simulator:
http://www.freewebs.com/scikidus/evolution/evoflash.html

How Evolution Works the GAME. A must see!!!

KevinPluck has turned this simulation into an interactive game. You are the predator and the squares evolve to avoid you eating them.

http://www.kevinpluck.net/evolution-versus-intelligence/

The world is full of misinformation.

Interesting how most of the Young Earth Creationists and people pushing Intelligent Design, clearly don't have an education in the biological sciences. Evolution is the product of Natural Selection AND Mutation. Either alone does nothing.

Evolution is the logical outcome of the world around us. Organisms that store their genetic information in DNA are guaranteed to have mutations. Mutations produce NEW variation. Reproducing organisms are guaranteed to compete for resources. Competition between variable organisms leads to natural selection, i.e. those organisms that possess variation that gives then an advantage will out compete those who don't. Organisms with deleterious variation will lose to all other organisms. In this way the ENVIRONMENT SELECTS the best organisms. This has the effect of passing beneficial mutations on to the next generation and removing deleterious ones. Over time natural selection will lead to a net shift in the genome of the population, i.e. evolution.

Yes, this really is evolution. Changes in allele frequency, changes in gene expression, and changes in transcription factor binding efficiency, they are all evolution.

Logic predicts evolution, and observation confirms it. Evolution has been observed in the lab and in nature. Speciation (macroevolution) has been observed in the lab and in nature. Large changes in appearance have been observed in the lab and in nature. Beneficial mutations have been observed in the lab and in nature.

CORRECTION: Some have noted that Evolution need not include Natural Selection, as genetic drift does result in evolution. I agree that genetic drift is evolution, and should stress that Natural Selection is just one mechanism for evolution.

Natural Selection + Random Mutation = Evolution
Genetic Drift + Random Mutation = Evolution

Both are true.

To see an example of how genetic drift can lead to a speciation event, i.e. macroevolution, check out an old video of mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnu-O5x_pRU

To deny evolution is to deny direct observation. It is as silly as denying that the sky is blue.

To download this video go to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9lg2il2mqgw

To download the code for the simulation go to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2lbzod2myiw

To read the Dover Trial Transcript go to:
http://www.aclupa.org/legal/legaldocket/intelligentdesigncase/dovertrialtrans...

To see the evidence presented in the trial go to:
http://www2.ncseweb.org/kvd/

If you wish to translate this video you can download the PowerPoint file from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yw0zdtimi2w

Learn the facts, spread the truth, and most importantly, Think About It.

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[bijoukaiba]

@TheFlyingmonkeyman7 Darwin's finches are an example of allopatric speciation. Morphological and genetic studies have shown they all originated from one ancestor, but have certain morphological or other traits, such as the size and shape of the beak to correspond with their diet, such as insects or certain kinds of seeds. One finch, the Woodpecker Finch, actually knows how to use tools; it can use a cactus spine like a spear to pluck grubs from holes they can't enter.

[SorryStamin]

@striker360 This is true.

[striker360]

if you like hot chicks, you believe in evolution, FACT

[TheFlyingmonkeyman7]

@transtlantic could you possibly be a little more specific?

[transtlantic]

@TheFlyingmonkeyman7

Plant speciation.

[TheFlyingmonkeyman7]

@transtlantic Give me an example of speciation.

[daverigby23]

@Snakepliskinist I had to laugh when I saw that you had written ' I live in Kansas, where evolution is illegal' I know what you meant to say, which is that 'teaching evolution in schools is illegal' Thankfully, evolution is still happening, unless Kansas has banned all forms of flora and fauna. That would look pretty desolate

[transtlantic]

@TheFlyingmonkeyman7

actually is the exact same thing as micro. Speciation is fact. for example: plant speciation.

Macro evolution is observed all the time, you are just making stuff whenever you present your made up definition that don't even make sense.

Btw...modern science has been around long enough to document hundreds of directly observed instances of speciation.

you retarded uneducated cRetard

[TheFlyingmonkeyman7]

This video only shows how a group of organisms can change color over time, while remaining the same species. Macro-evolution is changing from one species to another. The video was incorrect in saying macro-evolution has been observed, even if it was possible, modern science hasn't been around long enough to span the required time.

[Snakepliskinist]

I live in Kansas, where evolution is illegal. But if you outlaw evolution, only outlaws will evolve.