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In terms of biological evolution, every species on Earth has evolved from previous species, and every anatomical feature, and every chemical pathway or other biological trait is also the product of evolution. Multicellular organisms evolved from unicellular organisms. Mammals and birds both evolved from reptiles, which evolved from amphibians which evolved from fish.

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Evolution is still a theory. mainly because no has been able to explain why if a species "evolved" do we still have the original species... and why do we not have hundreds of transitional, "inbetweener", species. If an elephant came from a frog... there should be something in between. Are we to believe that something came from nothing, all by it's self...

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Evolution is still a theory, because theories are what science produces. Only religion produces dogma. Plenty of species are extinct, so I do not see the basis for your question ""why do we still have the original species?" However, evolution is not always a process of replacement. It is also a process of filling new ecological niches. So an earlier species can fill one niche while a later species that evolved from the earlier species can fill a different niche. Then there is the claim that "If an elephant came from a frog...there should be something in between" We don't know that the evolution of elephants can be traced directly to frogs, although in general (as I said previously) mammals did evolve from reptiles which evolved from amphibians. But of course, this means that there was something in between frogs and elephants. Actually there would have been a great many intermediary phases, some of which species still exist, and others of which are extinct. Finally, nothing in the theory of evolution says that something came from nothing, all by itself. Each step of evolution comes from a previous step, and the first step of biological evolution is non-living matter, known as the primordial soup. And that too can be traced back, step by step, as far as the Big Bang. The origin of the Big Bang itself falls beyond the realm of biological evolution and is a complex topic, and that too is not something from nothing (but I am not going to get into the details, which would be a digression). Also, for Creationists, it does you no good to complain that evolution tries to make something from nothing. You have no explanation of where God comes from. Your theory is the one that tries to come up with something from nothing.

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