Evolution Day

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution caused quite a stir in the 19th century. It took Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, 20 years to write and publish his original book On the Origin of Species that explained the process of evolution.

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

Ultimately every living thing can trace its ancestry to a bacterium that lived billions of years ago.

But Darwin did not come up with the phrase “survival of the fittest” to summarize his theory. Rather, the philosopher Herbert Spencer coined the phrase.

Evolution in organisms occurs through changes in heritable traits—the inherited characteristics of an organism. In humans, for example, eye colour is an inherited characteristic and an individual might inherit the "brown-eye trait" from one of their parents. Approximately 8% of the world’s population now has blue eyes.

Hundreds of studies verify the facts of evolution, at both the microevolutionary and macroevolutionary scale—from the origin of new traits and new species to the underpinnings of the complexity we see in life and the statistical probability of such complexity arising.

Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law. Evolution is unscientific because it is not testable or falsifiable. It makes claims about events that were not observed and can never be re-created.

Increasingly, scientists doubt the truth of evolution. The disagreements among even evolutionary biologists show how little solid science supports evolution.

Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on Earth.