• Question: Could there be a "god guided evolution" and has evolution ever been observed in a lab or in the field

    Asked by aurum to Dean, Jess, Luisa on 25 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Dean Whittaker

      Dean Whittaker answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      It has been observed in the lab. Flies can evolve in days by putting them in different environments and letting them breed. Also, there have been animals that have evolved within the last few hundred years (so I seem to remember).

      You can also look at genetics to work out how evolution takes place between species. It’s all proven enough to call it fact.

      Though there’s nothing to rule out god guided evolution. In my own opinion, this is the only way you can shoehorn God into the world (though I don’t believe God does exist).

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      Well, if you believe in god, why not?! But as I am an atheist I don’t think that evolution was ‘god guided’.
      I am not sure if evolution has been observed in the lab (as it does take quite long) – but certainly I would say that we have proof enough from genetics, fossils and C13 analyses.

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      Evolution has been shown – near where I live there are black squirrels that have evolved from grey squirrels. I remember the classic one when I was at school was the moths that changed colour to blend in with the sooty environment around them. Also, somewhere in Afric there is a whole lake of fish which are now very different (some are small, some big, eat different things, behave differently), yet they all came from one common ancestor, so essentially they should all be roughly the same if they hadn’t evolved.

      I think that ‘god driven’ can be used to describe the wonder of how and why it all happens, and that the Earth has all the irght things coming together to enable life to happen. Now, that is special.

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