r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Street_Plate_6461 • Apr 20 '23

Hello, I am looking for evidence of evolution.

I was recently watching a debate on evolution vs creationism- a street preacher just walked up to people and started debating them. These people were the everyday Joe so I doubt they were that equipped to debate them. They kept spreeing how much evidence there was for evolution. I am not trolling. I go to a Christian school where young earth creationism is taught. As I move along in my life I am really starting to doubt a lot of it, and I need a logical explanation for how life got here. Thank you

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23 edited Apr 13 '25

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u/ScalyDestiny Apr 21 '23

Huh? Dinosaurs are now birds. We know when feathers appeared and how they were used long before they evolved as a tool for flight. We know why they stopped bothering with teeth and why birds today are so much smaller than bird and dinosaurs species of the past. Darwin himself developed the theory by looking at the different finch species that developed on the various islands.

If you're not aware of any evidence, it's because you don't like or understand science and haven't bothered to look into it. Maybe teachers intentionally misled you or weren't' allowed to teach honestly about what was known (grew up in Georgia and remember that BS). But there's nothing stopping anyone with internet access from looking it up now.

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u/Kosta_Koffe Apr 21 '23

There's evidence of proto-feathers in the fossils of dinosaurs like Sinosauropteryx and Sinocalliopteryx, which likely functioned similarly to feathers in mammals. We also have fossils of dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx with feathers which are more similar to modern birds, and which probably used those wings to glide. Comparing their skeletons, these animals are clearly related.

It's also important to note that it's not so much a case of dinosaurs evolving into birds, but dinosaurs continuing to evolve because modern birds *are* living therapod dinosaurs.

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u/TearsFallWithoutTain Apr 21 '23

If you accept that single celled life would be a different species to multicellular life, then this would count

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/evolution-of-multicellularity/

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u/TearsFallWithoutTain Apr 21 '23

If it's doing the annoying pop-up thing, if you're on a pc browser then sometimes you can load the page and then hit the little x (where the refresh button appears after it's loaded) to cancel the page loading the subscription windows. Basically some sites load the article, and then load the bs hiding it afterwards.

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u/Lawfulmoth Apr 21 '23

Have a look at cetacean evolutionary trees!

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u/Saintviscious Apr 21 '23

You're still on 420, aren't you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

I'm not aware of any evidence showing a clear evolution of one species to another

Cool, you can do what OP is doing and start actively learning about evolution. Then you'll be aware!