Tucker Carlson: "There is no evidence" for Darwin's theory of evolution

American journalist Tucker Carlson sparked outrage among scientists with a suspicious statement about the "incorrectness" of Darwin's theory of evolution.

"There's no evidence for evolution," Carlson said on Joe Rogan's podcast. "In fact, I think we've given up on the theory of evolution as Darwin explained it. It's kind of incorrect."

He also claimed that "there is no evidence that people evolved smoothly from a single-celled organism."

The conversation about evolution began with an offhand comment from Rogan: “If evolution is real,” then Carlson interrupted and asked: “Is it real?”

Rogan immediately replied, "I don't know. But it's visible. You can measure it in certain animals."

"There is absolutely no evidence, nothing 'zero'. There is no string in the fossil record to suggest that," Carlson said.

He added: "You hear people point to evolution because the theory of adaptation is clearly correct. But Darwin's theory is completely incorrect, and that is why it is still a theory, almost 200 years later."

Rogan then asked him about his theories on this issue, to which Carlson replied: “God clearly created people and animals.” He has not made public statements about his faith, but he tends to support Christian ideas.

Some scientists commented on Carlson's statements, noting that he misinterpreted what scientific theory is, and that his comments ignore much of the evidence that supports the theory of evolution.

“Many scientific theories are so well-established that no new evidence is likely to change them,” clinical psychologist Jonathan Stia wrote in X. “For example: evolution.”

Experts explained that Darwin studied evolution in some animals during his famous trip to the Galapagos Islands in the 1830s, where the birds he collected were completely different from each other.

Darwin concluded that something changed in birds as they migrated to new environments around the Galapagos Islands.

As it adapted to its new environments, each new species developed physical traits suited to its survival.

It is worth noting that no fossil records have been found showing every stage in the evolutionary chain, but many experts say that is because microbial life is difficult to track.