Conservapedia on Evolution
1. Evolution is untrue
Conservapedia claims evolution is the process of simple life transforming into more complex life forms, which has never been observed or duplicated in laboratory and therefore is flawed. The fossil record does not support the theory of evolution. Evolution is liberal propaganda. Evolution was used in an argument by Hitler, "if nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile" Creationist always win arguments against evolutionists and are scare of creationists.
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2. No consensus on how mutation, genetic drift, and natural selection occured today
Conservapedia claims most evolutionist believe mutation, genetic drift and natural selection created every species on Earth today but this is incorrect because there is little evidence to how this occurred. Conservapedia cites Pierre-Paul Grasse, who was a chair of biology at Sorborne University for thirty years, states "Some contemporary biologists, as soon as they observe a mutation, talk about evolution. They are implicitly supporting the following syllogism: mutations are the only evolutionary variations, all living beings undergo mutations, therefore all living beings evolve....No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution."
3. There is a lack of fossil intermediates to prove evolution
If evolution was real, there would transitional forms and intermediate forms in the fossil record and there are not. Many of the fossils that have been found were already categorized into main groups we see today. He cites Darwin who wrote, "“When we descend to details, we cannot prove that a single species has changed; nor can we prove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of the theory.” Evolutionist had 140 years to find transition fossils and the only few they found are doubtful.
Debunking Science
Conservapedia made bold claims on all of these statements with very little evidence to back it up. As well as pick and choose which parts of quotes by well educated scientists they wanted to use to prove their point, using their reputation and previous education to try and sound like they knew what they were talking about.
Evolution is real
Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection, which stated that species change over time. There are countless examples of adaptations and natural selection occuring, as well as macro and microevolution, therefore for Conservapedia to claim evolution is untrue is opinionated and has no strong scientific evidence to back up this claim.
Mutation, Genetic Drift and Natural selection do occur
For conservapedia to claim that there is no consensus on how natural selection, mutation and genetic drift occur is an attempt to invalidate the idea of evolution and again, has no supporting science evidence other than partial quotes from scientists.
There are three types of Natural Selection: stabilizing, directional and disruptive. One example of stabilizing natural selection is birth weight, as high or low birth weight correlate to poor survival rates. Darwin's finches is an example of directional selection, as evidence shows birds with longer beaks gathered food, survived, reproduced, and pass on their traits, slowly evolving different beak size. Disrupting evolution is favoring
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There are 5 kinds of point mutations, which change one base pair in a DNA sequence. And there are 4 types of chromosomal change mutations that can change the structure of an individual chromosome. Bacterial resistance is a great example of how mutations can occur and how they would contribute to evolution. As bacteria become antibiotic resistant, survival of the fittest is occuring in the bacteria as reproduction is occurring by the bacterial cultures that do not die and eventually produce a generation that is resistant to death by certain antibiotics.
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There are plenty of species with strong fossil records illustrating evolution
There are countless species with strong fossil records. Vertebrates are one species that have strong fossil records that illustrate the evolution of different species. One of these species is the modern day horse. For conservapedia to claim there are no fossil intermediates, although some species may not have intermediates, and therefore evolution is fake is incorrect and bad science because there are clearly many species with great fossil records.
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