How Evolution REALLY Works, Part I

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How Evolution Works the GAME. A must see!!!

KevinPluck has turned this simulation into an interactive game. You are the predator and the squares evolve to avoid you eating them.



The world is full of misinformation.

Interesting how most of the Young Earth Creationists and people pushing Intelligent Design, clearly don't have an education in the biological sciences. Evolution is the product of Natural Selection AND Mutation. Either alone does nothing.

Evolution is the logical outcome of the world around us. Organisms that store their genetic information in DNA are guaranteed to have mutations. Mutations produce NEW variation. Reproducing organisms are guaranteed to compete for resources. Competition between variable organisms leads to natural selection, i.e. those organisms that possess variation that gives then an advantage will out compete those who don't. Organisms with deleterious variation will lose to all other organisms. In this way the ENVIRONMENT SELECTS the best organisms. This has the effect of passing beneficial mutations on to the next generation and removing deleterious ones. Over time natural selection will lead to a net shift in the genome of the population, i.e. evolution.

Yes, this really is evolution. Changes in allele frequency, changes in gene expression, and changes in transcription factor binding efficiency, they are all evolution.

Logic predicts evolution, and observation confirms it. Evolution has been observed in the lab and in nature. Speciation (macroevolution) has been observed in the lab and in nature. Large changes in appearance have been observed in the lab and in nature. Beneficial mutations have been observed in the lab and in nature.

CORRECTION: Some have noted that Evolution need not include Natural Selection, as genetic drift does result in evolution. I agree that genetic drift is evolution, and should stress that Natural Selection is just one mechanism for evolution.

Natural Selection + Random Mutation = Evolution
Genetic Drift + Random Mutation = Evolution

Both are true.

To see an example of how genetic drift can lead to a speciation event, i.e. macroevolution, check out an old video of mine



To deny evolution is to deny direct observation. It is as silly as denying that the sky is blue.

To download this video go to:


To download the code for the simulation go to:


To read the Dover Trial Transcript go to:


To see the evidence presented in the trial go to:


Learn the facts, spread the truth, and most importantly, Think About It.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: October 22, 2007 at 1:31 am
Author: cdk007

Length: 00:09:57
Rating: 4.61
Views: 149788

Tags: Evolution Intelligent Design ID Creation Fact Logic Education Behe Simulation Genetic DNA Mutation Natural Selection

Video Comments:
MuF123 (July 6, 2008 at 4:46 pm)
nice work! but i think those closeminded idiots who believe in creationalism won't even understand those principles... so it's not worth trying to prove them something. they have jesus insted of logic in their heads :)
cDubbed1 (July 3, 2008 at 8:30 pm)
There is NO such thing as evolution.
damianpoirier (July 3, 2008 at 9:43 pm)
"There is NO such thing as evolution. "

of course not. Evolution is a process, a general course that is driven through time.

It's like saying there is no such thing as 'flow'. You can talk about how 'things flow' and you may even speak of the 'flow' of things, but it remains a verb regardless how you use it in the metalanguage.
spitzy987 (July 4, 2008 at 7:30 am)
I'm impressed that, and perhaps assuming incorrectly, as an anglophone, you can identify a verb. However, 'flow' can also be a noun and while 'evolution' may be a 'process', both are also in fact nouns, although 'process' may also be a verb.
juggernautxtr (July 3, 2008 at 11:31 am)
know what makes me laugh, why scientists have admitted carbon dating is faulty.
gee anybody could get that program to work the way they wanted it too, just gotta tell it what you want it to do.
damianpoirier (July 3, 2008 at 1:54 pm)
Only faulty to a degree, faulty past certain extended periods. Within the confines of the known error bars it is accurate to a degree also which is more accurate than no clock at all. Then ther are the many other radioisotopes with much longer half lives that provide a different kind of time scale and an accuracy comensurate with that scale. Are you laughing at yourself now? You sould be.
Gee jugger, program much? Here's a challenge. Write an evolutionary program that doesnt evolve. no cheating
redmonkeydf (July 1, 2008 at 6:24 pm)
Hmmmm. I like the idea of a simulation to represent how natural selection and mutation cause a population to evolve. One criticism I have in my admittedly shallow knowledge, is that this seems to fail to represent the "arms race" that must exist between the organism evolving to not get eaten and the predator evolving to be able to eat more organisms. But perhaps thats just my tendency to overcomplicate.
damianpoirier (July 1, 2008 at 6:56 pm)
there exist many freeware and share ware executable examples of evolution that you can dl and run thruogh an enormous range of different variable. Then again, they are not terrible difficult to write either. Trying to get them to evolve is never the problem. Trying to get them to behave as you want them to is usually a problem. Alternate solutions are often found by the programs that circumnavigate the programmers intention through unanticipated exploits in the code.
tommyk77 (July 1, 2008 at 3:19 pm)
Looking on your page, I can see why you reject evolution; because you are a christian fanatic. Your book is false, it has no evidence. Please present me with any case of a human actually immaculately conceiving a child, of someone bringing someone back from the dead and a case where water floats on air (genesis 1:6 if anyone is wondering)
tommyk77 (July 1, 2008 at 3:16 pm)
Lol. Where is the evidence? The Intelligent Design proponents did not back up their claims. Michael Behe, for example, claimed that blood clotting was irreducibly complex, but th puffer fish does not have it. He also said that the flagellar in a bacterium was IC, but when scientists looked into it, they found flagellar with "scaffolding" pieces, which were redundant in the motor, but served to support the working parts.