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: 4.62
Views: 159939

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

Video Comments:
cptDhivae (September 6, 2008 at 3:53 am)
Lol some are just bad *points to a black one*
forresn (September 5, 2008 at 1:31 am)
How can you call ME Ignorant?

The only Ignorant thing here is you calling me ignorant for my obviously well researched comment dealing with evolution.

How about you read the definition of the word before you post it eh?
Pawn2King4 (September 5, 2008 at 1:40 am)
Lol what?
Idk if you are creationist or not, but if you are one: Why are you the non scientist supposed to tell the scientist how to do his job? If you are not; why are you attacking me?
Two, the last word I posted was Speciation, and I quoted a text book on that. So how was I wrong there? Seriously, WTF?
forresn (September 5, 2008 at 1:47 am)
I'm sorry but...

what the hell are you talking about?
Pawn2King4 (September 5, 2008 at 1:49 am)
And I quote. Perhaps you responded to a wrong person? This is the comment I got.
How can you call ME Ignorant?

The only Ignorant thing here is you calling me ignorant for my obviously well researched comment dealing with evolution.

How about you read the definition of the word before you post it eh?
So was that meant for me!?
forresn (September 5, 2008 at 1:53 am)
I got that one

(my comment is to long to post but this is ware it was)

"wow your ignorant....
I am not, unique is. "


is that meant for me?
forresn (September 5, 2008 at 1:56 am)
HA HA HA!

sorry about that your where replying to my reply to that ignorance.

ha ha

my bad i'm sorry about that buddy.
UniqueTruth00 (September 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm)
1) there's this big humongous energy source(Destructive Energy) without our magnetic field we would be dead. You need something to harvest that energy its called (Our Atmosphere) So the Sun Is useless without a (Harvesting Machine)

I wonder what kind of chaotic process makes snowflakes i hope you know pecipitation is a very complex procedure.
COMALiteJ (September 3, 2008 at 10:18 pm)
Actually, the harvesting mechanism is not just the atmosphere, but the oceans, land, and most importantly, chlorophyll in the cells of plants and, before them, blue-green algæ. The latter directly convert solar energy into the energy needed for life and evolution. Herbivore animals convert that energy when they eat plants, and so on.

As for snowflakes: are you honestly trying to deny that snowflakes are LESS ORDERLY and MORE CHAOTIC than the random water droplets and dust that FORM them!?
COMALiteJ (September 3, 2008 at 10:20 pm)
OOPS! I meant to type, "... honestly trying to CLAIM that...," NOT "... honestly trying to DENY that."