There is a simple experiment I can do at home to prove that gravity is a fact. I can drop a pencil, and it will fall to the floor. No matter how many times I do this, the pencil falls, every time. I have “proven” the theory of gravity (and I thought it was the “Law of Gravity”).
Is there a similar experiment I can do at home to prove evolution? For instance, does anyone know the procedure for evolving my grandson’s brine shrimp into the cute little “sea monkeys” pictured on the label of the kit he bought? Seriously, he is quite disappointed…
I’d really like to see something a bit more convincing than some bacteria adapting to vaccines, or fruit flies that have been genetically altered in a laboratory. The finches were cool, but they’re still finches, and they can still mate with their normal-beaked family.
If someone could show me how to get those shrimp to evolve, not only would they impress me enough to make a believe out of me, they would also be making a little boy happy…