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It's all too easy to be distracted by all the claims about what isn't evidence for evolution or about claims that dispute the details of evolution so that one misses what is evidence for evolution.
This page links to some resources that give an overview of some of the evidence, much of which, of course, contested by creationists. Specific claims and pieces of evidence are discussed throughout the rest of the website.
Always bear in mind that anything can be waved away with a 'Goddidit' argument, such is the nature of supernatural claims (and hence the use of naturalism).
Many creationists and the major creationist organizations now actually accept that evolution occurs, although they may downplay it by calling it 'speciation' or 'diversification' and claim that it happens only within 'kinds'. These creationists also claim that accelerated 'diversification' happened after the Flood and that it's only 'downward' evolution. Because of this, it tends to be not evidence for evolution that is sought but evidence for common ancestry (common descent). Therefore although common descent is a concept within evolutionary biology, this page includes resources for both.
Please follow up any questions these resources raise for you in the other sections of this site.
Resources
Resources
Series of videos by Jackson Wheat, explaining the evidence for evolution and dealing with creationists’ misunderstanding and misrepresentations of it.
Another series of videos by Jackson Wheat.
29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: the scientific case for common descent
Article in the TalkOrigins Archive.
Page on Wikipedia.
Evidence for Evolution: An Eclectic Survey
Set of articles by Chris Colby in the TalkOrigins Archive.
What is the evidence for evolution?
Article on the BioLogos website.
Article on RationalWiki. This has a particular focus on the genetic evidence, for example endogenous retroviruses, pseudogenes, and broken vitamin C genes.
Article by Dennis R. Venema in the journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith looks at various lines of evidence of human-ape common ancestry and various anti-common-descent intelligent design and common design arguments.
Claim CA202: Evolution has not been proved
Brief response in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.
In this video, Jackson Wheat explains why demonstrating ancestry is not just about drawing lines on a page.
Video by Jackson Wheat.
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