It would be like it was before Darwin, people would either believe in a theistic origin or would simply assume the knowledge was beyond their understanding.
I can provide a summary or explanation of the theory of evolution. Is there a specific aspect of the theory you would like me to cover?
Nothing, it's a theory, like evolution!
The theory of evolution by natural selection.No, as however life came about the fact that it evolves is observed and observable and natural selection would still be one of the main drivers of evolution and the only driver of adaptive change.
They are both based on the scientific method.
A scientific theory is a model that withstands testing, like evolution.
I answered a question like this earlier. It does not. What flood myth? There are many of them and none of them have anything to do with the theory of evolution by natural selection.
There is only one evolutionary theory; the one based on Darwin's original model of natural selection. There have been previous models further back, like Lamarck's model for evolution through acquired traits, but these have long been falsified.So if one is considering accepting or withholding belief in a theory of evolution, ones choice is confined to the theory of evolution by natural selection, pioneered by Charles Darwin.Reasons for accepting the theory are plentiful: it is now so well backed by observational data that rejecting it would be equivalent to rejecting the heliocentric model of the Solar System.
Darwin's classic theory of evolution assumed that evolution is a slow, contunuous process, by which new species evolve and emerge. This is referred to at times as "organic evolution" and the "synthetic theory of evolution", or just the Darwinian theory of evolution. A newer theory, proposed originally by Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould is known as "punctuated equilibria", a model in which the evloution of new species occurs only periodically, in relatively rapid spurts. See "Time Frames the Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibraia, Simon & Schuster, 1985"AnswerThe slow, constant process has also been called "gradualism."
Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution by natural selection is what you are trying to talk about. When someone says " evolution is just a theory " they are using the vulgar, common sense of the word theory. They mean guess, hunch and the like. The theory of evolution by natural selection is in the scientific sense of the word theory, which means a body of explanatory work supported by myriad lines of converging evidence that has been tested rigouusly and replicated often. Any good dictionary uses this scientific meaning of theory as the primary meaning of the word.
Many Muslims and Orthodox Jews do not " believe " in evolution. Of course the truth does not need you belief to be true and something can be true whether you believe it or not. I should re-word this question. Is there an atheist that doesn't agree with evolution? There may be an atheist that does not agree with evolutionary theory, but what difference would that make? If there was someone out there I would like to hear his views on evolution.
Yes, evolution is a scientific theory supported by extensive evidence from fields like genetics, paleontology, and comparative anatomy. It explains how species change over time through natural selection and other mechanisms._accepted
Evolutionary theory is a scientific theory, and stands separate from any religious belief, just like one does not have to have or lack any particular religious belief in order to accept gravity or general relativity.