Yes, the evolution of Life is about as obvious a fact as you could want. Although Darwin and Mendel and Watson were the great geniuses who brought our understanding to its zenith, the fact (if not the mechanism) of evolution was known at least as early as the ancient Greeks. Just a simple thought experiment will suffice to show how obvious it is. We know for certain that in earlier ages, say for example the Cambrian, most current species didn't exist, and the ones that did exist were vastly different from any we see today. Therefore -- unless you believe in new species just magically popping into existence or arriving on flying saucers hundreds of thousands of times at least (and if you do believe that, no one can help you) -- they must have evolved. It's also obvious in another way: We know that genes mutate. We know that mutations are passed on to offspring. We know that a few mutations are beneficial and not only are passed on, but become widespread. Therefore we know that species evolve (change) over time.

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the axiom 3 weeks ago
it's not obvious in any way most mutations destroy, don't create even if one created something there would be no reason for that mutation to become widespread unless you evoke natural selection however most mutations can't be selected because they are useless a chain of thousands of lucky mutations would be necessary before anything could be selected so no, random mutations can't do it