@DNA Thumbs drive,
DNA Thumbs drive wrote:
Evolution is not a theory, not at least as presented by Darwin. Now it is clear that evolution is a big part of out World, as it has made every organism what it is. However Darwin ignored where species came from, probably expecting some more intellectual person who came after him to fill in the blanks, but this never happened, and without an explanation for how life and species came to be, the Origin of the Species, a book that does not even try to deal with the origin of any species, is a fraud, and in fact quite silly.
You couldn't be more wrong. First, evolution is a theory. A theory is a belief which is has been verified. Evolution has been verified by a comparison between predictions and fact. Secondly, you apparently don't know what the theory of evolution says, because it also explains where species first came from. The only part of this which is possibly not completely covered by the theory is the very first step. It is likely, however, that after hundreds of millions of years, after countless chemical reactions in the oceans, a molecule arose by chance that copied itself. This molecule would have been much, much simpler than DNA. Once this happened, accidents occurred from time to time in the making of these copies. These accidents were usually detrimental but occasionally helpful. Natural selection served to eliminate the detrimental changes and propagate the helpful ones. Eventually, the accumulation of improvements resulted in the first cell, then sometime later, the first multicellular organism, and so on. Now, billions of years later, after the accumulation of countless tiny improvements, we have our present set of species.
