Thursday, February 8, 2007

In biology, evolution is the change in how common heritable traits are in a population from generation to generation. This is usually measured in terms of the variant genes, known as alleles, that encode the traits. As differences in and between populations accumulate over time, speciation, the development of new species from existing ones, can occur. All known organisms are related by common descent through numerous speciations from a single ancestor.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
We are rapidly changing all the time.
Can the theory of evolution be tested? Evolution, when addressing common descent, is largely a historical science. This means that it relates to actions that are supposed to have happened in the distant past, and this makes testing the theory complicated because, unless time travel is invented, we cannot directly test the theory.
However, this does not mean that the theory is not testable at all. As with other historical investigations, you can make predictions and retrodictions (to utilize present information or ideas to infer or explain a past event or state of affairs - e.g., to "retrodict past eclipses" as opposed to predicting future eclipses) based on the theory.
What this means is that we can state that we would expect to find certain things (say, certain types of fossils) when looking at the historical record, and if those things are found, it supports the theory. Thus, while we cannot perform the kind of direct tests like we can in physics and chemistry, the general theory of evolution is testable just as other historical theories are testable.
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/evo/blfaq_evo_science.htm

thanks to this website it explains how it's provable but over a long period of time

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Certain animals our only in the galapagos

The Galapagos Tortoise (Testundinidae): You can't go to these islands without falling in love with these funny, pre-historic creatures. All turtles found on the islands belong to the group Geochelone elephantopus. They are divided into 14 sub-species (three of which are extinct), differentiated by the form and size of their shell as well as neck and extremities. Unfortunately, if they don't find a mate for Lonely George soon, there might be 4 extinct species.

http://www.galapaguide.com/islas_galapagos_fauna.htm

The Creatures evolved differently here and resulted in evidence appearing for Darwin.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Charles Darwin Galapogos islands

Why? That was the question that plagued Darwin. Why? Eight years after his return, Darwin wrote to his close friend and colleague, Sir Joseph Hooker: "At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite to the contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable." According to Genesis, God created all plants and animals, and they have not changed significantly since that time. Yet the only way that Darwin could explain all of his observations was that they had indeed changed. The pivotal role of the Galapagos islands in shaping Darwin's new world view is clear from a passage in his ornithological notebooks: http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Darwin.html

His ideas were based on the Galapogos islands.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Side Evolution

This blog was created for a group project at GBN Highschool In Illinois. Group Members are Tom V., Greenberger, and Ross E. We Believe in the facts that support Charles Darwin and his theory on evolution.

Greenberger:
www.sexysmallfoot.blogspot.com
SciFi-guy-baby
www.sciefi-guy-baby.blogspot.com