Is there powerful easy-to-understand evidence for evolution that people can see with their own eyes?

You're looking at it now. Try figuring out why this is undeniable evidence for evolution, then go visit What are those tiny rear limbs doing there? to get the scientific explanation. If you're an evolution denier you should click the link to find out why a biologist said this is rock-hard evidence for evolution.

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12 more evidence for evolution posts:

Human chromosome 2 and chimpanzee chromosomes 2p & 2q

Bible thumping retard in Idiot Tennessee is a science denier. What a surprise!

A whole bunch of fucking evidence for evolution

Evidence for evolution you can see with your own eyes

Evolution deniers can't explain why their god fairy would use its magic wand to create the giraffe's laryngeal nerve 15 feet longer than necessary.

Science deniers, how do you explain Dorudon?

The Great Apes: chimps, people, gorillas, orangutans

Endogenous Retroviruses make Jeebus cry.

Some stuff I stole from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True

The ancestor of the Chihuahua is the wolf.

Lanugo makes Jeebus cry.

This is for the Christian assholes who say there are no transitional fossils.

"Women were cursed with extreme pain in childbirth because of what we did in the garden."

For every scientific question a Christian idiot has a supernatural explanation.

For more burning stupid please see the question I asked on Yahoo Answers at Do you evolution deniers realize you are also Encyclopedia Britannica deniers?

You can write a comment there if you want.

The scientific explanation from National Geographic Magazine:

Why do we possess a birth canal of such Byzantine design? "The human female pelvis is a classic example of evolutionary compromise," Rosenberg answers. Its design reflects a trade-off between the demand for a skeletal structure that allows for habitual walking on two feet and one that permits the passage of a baby with a big brain and wide shoulders. Its unique features didn't come about all at once, but at different times in our evolutionary history, in response to different selective pressures. "The result of these different pressures is a jerry-rigged, unsatisfactory structure," Rosenberg says. "It works, but only marginally. It's definitely not the type of system you would invent if you were designing it. But evolution is clearly a tinkerer, not an engineer; it has to work with yesterday's model."

Is it silly to think that Allah split the moon, or that an undead Christ flew into space?

The question is from Yahoo Answers at Is it silly to think that Allah split the moon, or that an undead Christ flew into space?.

One of the best answers was from a person named "John":

Both are exceedingly possible. Meanwhile, back to my medication.

This was my answer:

"Silly" is not strong enough a word. These fantasies require extreme stupidity, gullibility, and insanity.

The Muslim fantasy about the moon is ridiculous. The Christian fantasy about the resurrection of the stinking dead magic jeebus man is equally ridiculous but even worse it's disgusting. Unless of course a person likes zombies.

Christians will complain "Jeebus did not become a zombie" "Jeebus was not undead" "Jeebus did not fly into space".

Really? Then what would you call a decomposing three day old corpse that left its grave? Normal people would call it a zombie. Zombies are "undead". In the movies the solution is to shoot the zombie in the brain. Of course zombie movies are fantasy. The Jeebus zombie is also a fantasy.

According to the disgusting resurrection myth after the dead Jeebus became undead he went up to a magical heaven. How is that not flying into space?

Grow up Christian scum and stop disgracing my country. You idiots have made America a laughing stock. It's for a good reason civilized countries call the USA "Idiot America" and that reason is you sick-in-the-head Christians.

Evolutionist, if evolution was true, why hasn't everything evolved into a human?

The question (from Yahoo Answers at Evolutionist, if evolution was true, why hasn't everything evolved into a human?) was written by a normal person pretending to be a Christian retard.

I answered the question:

The question is of course satire. But most likely a real Christian would ask the same stupid question.

Evolution is a branching process. One species becomes separated into two groups which sometimes evolve (it can take millions of years) into two different species, for example modern chimpanzee apes and modern human apes. It's called speciation.

Definition from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True:

speciation: The evolution of new populations that are reproductively isolated from other populations.

Human apes are not the big deal Christians think we are.

Some important quotes:

"You know, there’s this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It’s just evolved to a different niche."
-- Jeremy Niven

"Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale…there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything."
-- PZ Myers

What is a real Christian?

On Yahoo Answers at What is a real Christian? I answered the question.

"What is a real Christian?"

A real Christian believes the same nonsense the magic jeebus man believed. This means a real Christian must throw out 150 years of scientific progress so he or she can believe in magical creation out of nothing.

A real Christian must harass and threaten biology teachers to protect their children (and everyone else's children) from learning anything about the foundation of biology (evolution).

A real Christian will try to throw out and/or deny the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights so they can make America a theocracy like Iran.

Real Christians brainwash their children starting before they learn how to walk. The idea is when they take their first science class they will have already been trained to not learn anything.

When real Christians want to learn something about science they always depend on the professional Bible thumpers. They go out of their way to learn nothing. It's called willful ignorance. It's a disease and all real Christians are infected with it.

I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Real Christians are nutjobs, equal to Muslim terrorists.

From another comment a REAL Christian: "I believe being a Christian is having a relationship with him and being baptized with his Holy Spirit. It will lead you into all things and keep you sustained. There is no doubt you have met God."

Now that person is really a Christian because he's insane.

Abiogenesis

Abiogenesis. Lots of progress.

If you're interested in this subject:

Life’s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory

"Was It the Origin of Life"? Biologists Create Self-replicating RNA Molecule

In Lab, Clues To How Life Began

Abiogenesis

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/science/space/a-far-flung-possibility-for-the-origin-of-life.html

I'm very interested in evolution but I'm only a little bit interested in how the first simple living cells got a foothold on Earth almost four billion years ago.

One thing for sure, unfortunately for the theist idiots who are desperately looking for a hiding place for their god of the gaps, it was not a magical process.

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike. They've all come to look for America.

Americans, when they're looking for America, they go to New York City. The photo, by the way, is obviously from before Muslim scum attacked the most important city in the world.

Simon and Garfunkel at Central Park in Manhattan

Simon & Garfunkel - America

"Let us be lovers,
We'll marry our fortunes together.

I've got some real estate
Here in my bag."

So we bought a pack of cigarettes,
And Mrs. Wagner's pies,
And walked off
To look for America.

"Kathy," I said,
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
It took me four days
To hitchhike from Saginaw.
I've come to look for America."

Laughing on the bus,
Playing games with the faces,
She said the man in the gabardine suit
Was a spy.
I said, "Be careful,
His bow tie is really a camera."

"Toss me a cigarette,
I think there's one in my raincoat."
"We smoked the last one
An hour ago."
So I looked at the scenery,
She read her magazine;
And the moon rose over an open field.

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said,
Though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and
I don't know why."

Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike.
They've all come
To look for America,
All come to look for America,
All come to look for America.

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Pachelbel's canon in D Major - Romantic Modernized Version

Does Creationism have a practical application?

The question was asked on Yahoo Answers by a lady who calls herself She Devil at Does Creationism have a practical application?.

I wrote an answer:

She Devil, I just want to say thanks for asking a good question. Of course we both already know the answer. Magical creationism out of nothing could never have any value. It's a fantasy that contributes nothing to human progress. It just gets in the way.

Your "I would expect the bible, a book written by the super-intelligent super-powerful creator of the universe to be better than a bunch of nonsense about a talking snake, a talking donkey, a 40 day flood, a giant boat full of animals, and all of the other ridiculous stuff in the bible." is excellent. Many thanks.

And many thanks to Vinncent for this brilliant stuff: "Yes it is a great way to judge people's critical thinking skills and their overall gullibility level. Who do you want in your bunked during a zombie apocalypse a creationist who sees the zombies as herald's of the second coming or people who are going to do everything in their power not to get eaten? If you are asking if stories about magic and fantasy have a place in the real world you might as well ask if Harry Potter stories have some practical applications."

Jimbo wrote "You choose to believe whatever you believe and to denigrate another's belief simply because you disagree with it or think it preposterous does nothing to advance society."

Mr. Jimbo, after the 9/11/2001 religious atrocities against America, why should we not ridicule the insane fantasies of god-soaked idiots? Should we really show respect for religious violence (and the magical heaven fantasy which makes terrorism possible)? Should we respect uneducated morons who try to dumb down science education to accommodate their magic jeebus man?

I suggest it's immoral to respect stupidity, insanity, violence, and the brainwashing of innocent children. I will not stop ridiculing the religious fools who are destroying this world until every god fantasy is completely eradicated.

It's fair to say creationists are not too bright. What's their problem?

I asked this question on Yahoo Answers at It's fair to say creationists are not too bright. What's their problem?.

One of my hobbies is ridiculing Christian assholes and Yahoo Answers is a convenient place to do it. I wrote this post so I could publish the best answer from Mr. Lighting the Way to Reality who explains why creationist tards are a waste of time.

Their problem is that they mindlessly believe the lies put out by the promoters of creationism in their web sites and books.

I have found that their heads are encased in cement, because no matter how often I show that their arguments are nonsensical, baseless, and contrary to fact, they keep on repeating them.

The intellectual dishonesty of creationists

One of the most basic facts of science is the development of whales from land animals. This is just one of thousands of scientific facts the evolution deniers must deny to defend their dead Jeebus who was a creationist.

Here is a fossil of a whale ancestor with useless rear limbs. What are those tiny limbs doing there? They are the last remnants of legs they no longer need, legs that belonged to the ancient land animals they evolved from.

Do you have an alternative explanation, creationists? Perhaps the magic jeebus man magically created those tiny worthless legs to test your faith. Perhaps you can invent an even more ridiculous idea to defend your childish insane belief in magical creation.

Of course you don't have to be dishonest about evidence even a child could understand. You creationists could instead grow up and stop living in the Dark Ages.

Take a very close look at those tiny rear limbs on this massive creature. Then try to tell me this is not powerful evidence for evolution you can see with your own eyes.

Look at how the forelimbs have become paddles, the tail has become long and flexible, and, especially, how the rear limbs have almost disappeared (they’re the tiny bones flanking the mid-section of the tail). But they’re still recognizable: rock-hard evidence that whales evolved from land animals—something amply confirmed by DNA sequencing.

A terrific popular article on the evolution of whales

Creationists often deny that these vestigial limbs are evidence for evolution, noting that they could function in copulation. But that’s ridiculous, for we not only see their gradual shrinkage over time, but—more important—why would the Creator make a “copulation guide” that had every bone homologous to those of the fully-functioning hind limbs of their ancestors, and of modern tetrapods? To deny that this is evidence for evolution shows the intellectual dishonesty of creationists.

"The Bible tells us that Satan is the ruler of the earth for now. Soon God will take back rule of the earth from Satan and evil mankind. He will restore it to the paradise he intended it to be in the first place. Then he will more than make it up to all who have suffered in this system run by Satan."

The fucking idiot who believes in Satan is a typical American. The problem is this country is infested with Christian scum. They are everywhere and they become more insane every year.

Here's some more American stupid:

We live in a fallen world, and man is in rebellion against God. God only gets involved when someone who is a born again spirit filled believer asks Him to get involved in something. The more people who get right with God, pray over things, the right way, the better off the world is. Less believers in Jesus Christ, praying less, or the wrong way with the wrong attitude, then the greater the foothold sin and the devil have.

The United States of Jeebus is an insane asylum.

All theists are science deniers because their magic god fairy is the most anti-science fantasy ever invented.

All religions are bullshit because they all invoke the magical powers of a god fairy. They pretend their fairy can coexist with science, as if both magic and reality can be true.

This is very basic. It should not take an entire book to explain it. If you believe in a god you're a fucking idiot.

Do Christians believe in the childish heaven fantasy because they're feeble-minded cowards?

The stupid burns out of control in Idiot America.

The question and the comments below is what I published on Yahoo Answers at Do Christians believe in the childish heaven fantasy because they're feeble-minded cowards?

Reality: when we drop dead we stay dead. We don't have a magical soul that magically flies to a magical paradise where we can live again with the magic jeebus man for trillions of years.

Cowardly Christians are terrified of reality. That's why they're still Christians.

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There were some bullshit answers. Of course nobody offered any evidence for their cowardly heaven fantasy.

Winning first prize for "full of shit" was this "I know more about theology than you" crap:

You know nothing about what is referred to as the "soul," you know nothing about the intricate process through which one leaves the body at the time of permanent departure ("death")

My reply:

What a joke. This is called theology, the most worthless subject ever invented. Your "intricate process" is wild guessing to justify your insanity. Any normal person would laugh at you.

Question for creationists: Do you ever worry about being wrong about everything?

Creationists are so fucking hopelessly stupid. You should see their replies to the questions I asked on Yahoo Answers at Question for creationists: Do you ever worry about being wrong about everything? How can these retards call themselves human? I've met dogs with more intelligence.

This is what I wrote at Yahoo Answers. You can see Question for creationists: Do you ever worry about being wrong about everything? to read their insane brain-dead answers.

You creationists should worry about being wrong because virtually every biologist in the world knows you're wrong. They don't think you're wrong. The world's biologists are 100% for sure certain you are wrong to be an evolution denier. It's for a good reason biologists say creationists are equal to flat-earthers.

When biologists say evolution is the strongest fact of science do you think they're lying? The biologists who work for the best encyclopedia in the world, the Encyclopedia Britannica, wrote "There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms." Do you think the Encyclopedia Britannica is dishonest?

Here's some quotes from two other biologists:

"Even without fossils, we have evidence of human evolution from comparative anatomy, embryology, our vestigial traits, and even biogeography. We've learned of our fishlike embryos, our dead genes, our transitory fetal coat of hair, and our poor design, all testifying to our origins. The fossil record is really the icing on the cake."
-- Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist, author of Why Evolution is True

"The denial of evolution requires denial of the bedrock of two centuries of biology and geology. That is quite a feat."
-- Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

"For all of those who do see the overwhelming evidence of natural selection and life's descent from ancestors, and the immense span of time over which the story of life unfolded, it is, to put it mildly, baffling how so many still do not. It is absolutely astonishing and often infuriating that some take it so far as to deny the immense foundation of evidence and to slander all the human achievement that foundation represents."
-- Sean B. Carroll

Do you creationists think being wrong about where we came from is a waste of a life?

Do you creationists think maybe you should study evolution to find out what you're missing? I think you should.   

I invite you to answer the three questions I asked at Yahoo Answers.

Sorry but I no longer allow comments on this blog (because I don't want to deal with the nutjobs) but if you want you can write comments at these three Yahoo Answers websites where I asked these questions. Also, you might want to read the answers which are very interesting and/or disgusting.

Why do Christians who accept evolution almost always invoke God to invent or guide or use evolution?

Why do 46% of Americans believe evolution is false while virtually all biologists agree evolution is true?

Did Charles Darwin kill God?

American Christians are stupid fucking assholes. This is what they need to do to improve their reputation.

I don't expect you Christian scum to grow up and throw out your magic jeebus man. You won't do that because you're too cowardly to throw out your childish heaven fantasy, and you won't accept reality because you're just plain stupid.

But you should at least try to do something about your terrible reputation. Everyone thinks you Christian retards are assholes and they're right. You need to learn how to stop being assholes.

A good place to start would be to start respecting the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights. That means keep your disgusting death cult out of our government and out of our public schools.

You need to stop attacking science education. You have no right to tell biology teachers how to do their jobs because like I said before, you're just plain stupid.

Your magic jeebus man had some good advice for you Christian assholes. He said you should pray only in your closet instead of showing off how holy you are in public. Nobody wants to be forced to listen to you assholes show off your breathtaking stupidity. So shut the fuck up and pray (talk to yourself) only in private.

You Christian assholes need to learn how to mind your own fucking business. A good example is your war against abortion. I personally think abortion is disgusting idea that should be avoided but I don't harass young women who make this decision. I mind my own business. If you don't like abortions then don't get an abortion. And stop sticking your nose into other people's private lives. Mind your own fucking business. Stop being stupid fucking assholes.

One thing that really pisses me off about you Christian morons is you have destroyed America's Republican Party. I'm an economic conservative so I was hoping to get rid of our socialist president last year. But you Christian scum fucked up everything. The Republicans lost the election because most Americans think Republicans are Christian assholes who can't mind their own fucking business. They also think Republicans are science deniers, they want to destroy the environment, and they want to make America a Christian theocracy. In America Republican has become another word for "idiot". And it's all thanks to you Christian scum. Just remember the only thing that's important in politics is the economy. The rest is bullshit. If you don't learn how to keep your bullshit out of politics America will soon be like Greece.

Somebody else wrote this on the internet and I agree with it. You Christian tards need to understand it. "Religious beliefs are false, religion is a force for ill, and people have no right to use their religious beliefs to influence public policy or education."

My goal is to destroy your religion and thousands of other Americans have the same goal. Your idiotic Christian death cult will eventually go extinct, but you Christian scum can delay your extinction if you keep your childish fantasies to yourselves.

If you want Americans to accept evolution you must first get them to throw out their religion.

You must watch this Jerry Coyne YouTube video even though it's one hour long. Mr. Coyne (the University of Chicago biologist who wrote Why Evolution is True) explains why evolution is a fact and why American idiots don't like evolution.

If you're an American Christian, you more than anyone needs to watch this video. Of course that's unlikely. Christians are Christians because they go out of their way to be the uneducated morons they are.

I watched the whole thing and I took notes which I will share with you here. But you still got the see the video because this post leaves out what Mr. Coyne's said about the evidence for evolution. And if you watch the video you still have to read Why Evolution is True.

After watching this video my respect for Mr. Coyne became even stronger because he explained what I have always known but very few Americans understand. You can't expect a Christian to accept the massive evidence for evolution without first convincing the Christian to throw out the magic jeebus man. Explaining the evidence is pointless because as long as they believe in their "people are special" fantasy they will never be able to accept any evidence for evolution no matter how powerful it is.

Now a pro-science Christian or a wimpy atheist might complain "There are Christians who accept evolution".

They are wrong because always the Christian tard calls himself or herself a theistic evolutionist as if a natural process requires supernatural magic to work properly. That's not accepting evolution. If an idiot said gravity is a theistic idea, does that idiot really understand gravity? Theistic evolution is not evolution. It's a version of magical creationism. Theistic evolutionists are creationist retards.

From the most recent Gallup Poll: only 15% of Americans accept evolution as a completely natural process (god did not invent, guide, or use it). Meanwhile 100% of American biologists accept evolution as a completely natural process. Obviously there is a serious problem here.

OK, here's my notes from the video which you still have to watch.

Evolution is probably the supreme achievement of the human intellect.

THEORY: A coherent group of propositions meant to explain facts about the world.

FACT: A "true" theory.

Mr. Coyne's point was evolution is both a scientific theory and a scientific fact.

This is perhaps the best video ever made about the evidence for evolution and that's why you have to watch it. I took some notes but most of it I did not write down.

"Our genome is a graveyard of dead genes."

My comment: These are genes our ancient ancestors needed but we don't need. Because natural selection did not select for these genes for our species, when mutations turned these genes off the mutations did not disappear from our population. Our ancestors with these mutations survived because they did not need these genes to work properly. Examples Mr. Coyne talked about include the fact we can't manufacture our own vitamin C. We don't have to do this because our ancient ape ancestors had plenty of fruit to eat in the environment they lived in. We still have the genes to make vitamin C but they are dead.

My comment: The creationists can't explain these dead genes so they deny they're dead. Of course they don't know what they're talking about. All they know is if there's evidence for evolution that evidence must be wrong. Because otherwise they would have to throw out their magic jeebus man.

More from Jerry Coyne:

What is the theory of evolution?

1. Evolution happens (populations change over time)

2. Evolution usually happens gradually (populations change over hundreds to thousands of years)

3. Speciation occurs: one species splits into two or more species.

4. All species share common ancestry (as a result of lineages from one ancestral life form)

5. Much of the evolutionary change was caused by natural selection, which is the sole process producing adaptation.

There was a poll of 32 countries that showed their acceptance of evolution. The USA was number 31, a bit ahead of Turkey which was the only Muslim country on the list. How disgraceful can a country get? Way to go America.

Another poll shows that 40% of Americans believe people (and the entire fucking universe) were magically created out of nothing less than 10,000 years ago. I'm not joking.

The same poll shows that another 38% of Americans believe people evolved from other animals with help from a god's magic wand. These are the theistic evolutionists who are really creationist retards because they invoke a magical creator.

6% of Americans don't know or don't care about whether or not evolution is a fact.

16% of Americans agree with the 100% of scientists who accept evolution without magic. Mr. Coyne used a slightly obsolete poll because now it's only 15%. Americans are getting more stupid every year.

It gets worse, much worse. Here's another poll.

Which should be taught in American public school science classes?
12% Teach only evolution.
23% Teach only magic.
4% Teach only intelligent design magic.
55% Teach evolution and magic and intelligent design magic.
3% Do not teach evolution and do not teach magic.
3% Not sure or don't care.

Amazing. Evolution is the foundation of biology but only 12% of Americans are in favor of teaching evolution without magic in biology classrooms. That's less than the 15% of Americans who say they accept evolution as a natural process. The stupid, it burns.

Jerry Coyne said "The reason we have opposition to evolution in this country and not in other countries is because we are an extraordinarily religious nation."

"Of all the first world countries we are the most religious."

"63 percent of Americans believe in angels"

That last one is shocking. Americans really are fucking idiots.

A poll asked "If science found a fact that contradicted the tenets of your faith, what would you do?"

64% of Americans would reject the fact in favor of their faith.

Mr. Coyne called this "a frightening figure".

Mr. Coyne said "We are no more special than a squirrel is." I would add we're no more special than a cockroach.

And that is the problem according to Mr. Coyne. This is one of the reasons "why evolution is so maligned by religion."

This paragraph was not in the video but Mr. Coyne would probably agree with it. American Christians need their fantasy which says people are special. They believe we were magically created to be completely separate from the rest of nature. We are so special only we are able to magically fly to a magical heaven after we drop dead. Americans are afraid of evolution because evolution means we are just one small twig on the vast tree of life. There's nothing special about us. Evolution kills the childish heaven fantasy and that's why America's Christian cowards are terrified of evolution. That's why they deny the evidence for evolution, or even worse pollute evolution with supernatural magic.

Jerry Coyne:

Why is evolution so maligned by religion?

Effect on views of origins and "specialness".

Effect on views of purpose and meaning.

Effect on morality.

Jerry Coyne said "If you want people to accept the fact (of evolution) the sort of conclusion you draw is you got to get them to reject their faith. In other words get rid of religion."

"How do we get rid of religion?"

"Belief in god highly correlated with social dysfunction."

Not his exact words: "If Sweden and Denmark can get rid of religion then we can do it."

America is a fucked up country. One example is the recent massacre of six year old students at an American school in a peaceful wealthy town in Connecticut. It was shocking but Americans were not really surprised. These atrocities are normal in our idiot country. Mr. Coyne's said the more dysfunctional a country is (and America couldn't possibly be more dysfunctional) the more religious it is.

Mr. Coyne's idea was to make America a normal country and then religion would naturally fade away like it already has in Europe. How does he suggest doing this? See the video.