Inherit The Wind, By Charles Darwin

Neil DeGrasse Tyson once said “The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact”. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an acclaimed astrophysicist, cosmologist, and science communicator and has influence in the scientific world we live in today. “Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification” (“An Introduction to…”). “This definition encompasses small-scale evolution and large-scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations)” (“An Introduction to…”). There is now enough evidence for the theory of evolution that many consider it a fact and as such are turning away from the idea of creationism as a whole. Because of evolution you can trace just about every living thing on the Earth back to its ancestry billions of years ago. Darwin believed that all life on Earth descended from one primordial form (Naff 61). Darwin didn’t discover evolution or come up with the concept, but he was the frontrunner in research and a public endorser of the theory. The theory of evolution is correct because of homology, progressions of species changing over time, and natural selection.

From the tiniest microorganisms to the biggest animals, all life on Earth includes a common antecedent. Everything is connected to everything. therefore, however, is it that our species

One main reason why intelligent design is not a scientific theory is because it does not have enough evidence to support the claim that an intelligent agency created biotic creatures. On the other hand, evolution has a lot of evidence to support the theory, like the birds discovered on the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin, for example. Evolution can be considered scientific since it is “supported by a broad range of

When scientists compare embryo similarities we discovered that humans embryos and animal embryos are almost exactly alike. We go through the first two stages as the same embryos as the animals but when go to the third stage we start to differentiate and grown into the animal or human. Scientists also look at similar DNA structure that gives us evidence that evolution occurred and shows us what similar ancestors we have. When we look at analogous structures we see that the structure is not common and is not evidence of evolution but when we look at homologous structures we see that there is evidence that evolution occurred. For example cats and humans have the same arm bone structure. When scientists looked at homologous molecules they see the alike DNA

One of the most controversial plays of its time is hands down, Inherit the Wind. The main debate throughout the play is the debate between science and religion. A bit of a background for those that are naive to the topic in this time period to follow. Small towns such as Hillsboro were very prone to streamlined views in every possible topic of extremities such as religion to minor topics relative to eateries, gossip, and small town politics. Lawrence and Lee do an exceptional job representing and setting the scene of this town by painting the history of the play’s main characters. They make a strong point about the lack of strayed opinion as everyone is primarily religious in views and science is taught according to the bible. In a sense it is wrong for one to have a mind or speak about views that clash with what has been widely accepted in Hillsboro.

Inherit the Wind, a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee was a very influential plays for its time. The play is based on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The scopes trial was known as “The Trial of the Century" and helped expose the controversy between the Christian theory of creationism and the scientific theory of evolution. The play, which was published years after the trial, helped expose many Americans to the cultural divide between science and faith in our nation. It pushed passed the fears that many had during the time to show their stance on the subject of creationism and evolution. Several themes are presented throughout the play such as the idea of the censoring or limiting of an individual 's freedom to think. There is also the ignorance, prejudice and bigotry that are very much present in the characterization of Matthew Harrison Brady and the town’s people. Lawrence and Lee use the idea of evolution during this time of censorship as a metaphor for the control over individual 's thoughts or beliefs and how detrimental it could be when ones thoughts are limited.

Why is the play Inherit the wind by Lawrence and Lee such a relatable piece of literature to people in today’s society? Simply because the author embedded relevant themes that are a big part of the world’s issues today both politically and religiously. Three themes revealed by the events and characters within the play are the battle between thinking both fundamentally and intellectually, the differences between rural and urban regions, and the isolations amongst man and society.

Arguing for evolution by natural selection to be stated as a fact is a wholly misplaced argument. Evolution by natural selection is a theory and theory is just a five letter word for an idea that cannot yet be proven. Such is the case in the arguments for and against evolution by natural selection. Looking at the weakness of the theory of Darwinian evolution is the perfect place to start to argue against evolution by natural selection. Two weakness of Darwinism in relation to creationism are, according Joseph Kuhn, the irreducible complexity of the cell, and the limited data on transitional species given the multitude of transitions that must have been involved (Kuhn, 5). With those weaknesses found they can be developed and one of the standpoints that best develops this argument is that of creationism. Creationism says that the universe was created by the specific acts of a divine being, i.e. God, and not by random or natural gradation. The theory of creationism often gets discounted as the theory of radical religious persons but creationists are just as willing to continue to work with their theory as new evidence comes to light. Discounting the entire theory of creationism by stating that the problem is a basis in religious fanaticism paramount to stating that evolution by natural selection is unfounded because many have used it to further racist ideologies. Theories must be taken with a grain of salt and must constantly be examined and debated in order for a

“During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.”1 Here Thomas Hobbes portrays the state of nature; in which life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.2 He then proposes a social contract where people of the state enter into a commonwealth governed by an absolute power. Through this social contract, the people give up their right to “everything” to the sovereign in exchange for security, thereby, giving the sovereign absolute authority over the entire commonwealth. However, Hobbes’s theory presents an exception to this “unlimited power.” He states that Leviathan, the sovereign, does no wrong unless he violates a subject’s right to self-preservation.3 In other words, a subject of the sovereign is not obligated to obey that sovereign if that sovereign threatens the life or person of the subject. But isn’t this retained right of self-defense incompatible with the absolute sovereignty that Hobbes claims for the commonwealth? Susanne Sreedhar argues that with the help of varying interpretations of Hobbes’s theory, in addition to the Razian model, she can find a solution to this puzzle. By treating the sovereign’s commands as “exclusionary reasons,”4 Sreedhar maintains that instances of disobedience can be justified in cases where subjects have nonexcludable first-order reasons for an action.5 However, her Razian model is in some measure too

The hypothesis of advancement by characteristic determination, initially figured in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. This is the procedure by which living beings change after some time as a consequence of changes in heritable physical or behavioral attributes. Changes that permit a living being to better adjust to its surroundings will offer it some assistance with surviving and have all the more posterity. Advancement by regular determination is one of the best substantiated speculations ever, bolstered by proof from a wide assortment of exploratory controls, including fossil science, geography, hereditary qualities and formative science. The hypothesis has two primary focuses, said Brian Richmond, guardian of human resources

One of the significant reasons for the ascent of the Fundamentalist development happened when Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was distributed in the mid-nineteenth century. Fundamentalist Christian evangelists trusted the work was an immediate assault on the creation stories in the Bible.

Evolution has been a widely known discussion that many people have had over the past century, the theory of evolution has been welcomed by many scientists yet by some religious people it has been a taboo topic. The thought or the motion to entertain that humans evolved from primates is what some people would shudder and state that it goes against all their religious beliefs. However, scientist have pushed on the fact that evolution is not just a hypothetical or an outlandish theory but a theory that has multiple hard evidence to back it and that to ignore is ignorance and just plain stupidity. Four types of evidence of evolution are fossil records, genetic changes, the geographic distribution of species, and the similarities in embryos of species.

Darwin also proposed a group of organisms share common descent if they have a common ancestor. There is strong quantitative support for the theory that all living organisms on Earth are descended from a common ancestor.Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one ancestor for all life forms and ending with "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one". The theory asserts that all currently living organisms on Earth share a common genetic heritage with each being the descendant from a single original species. His work shows many

The storming of the Bastille, is one of the first deadliest battles of the French Revolution that was on July 14,1789. The result of this protesting action, brought 17,500 people fast into their graves. “The Tale of two Cities”, by Charles Darwin gives a good historical backround on this period of time.In the story, the main characters are desperatly fighting for their love , peace and hope over a devastational life in two diffrent cities. Not only men are striving for a happy life, but women too. No one knows the reason why, but is it because a character is in crisis with himself, God or government? Or is it because a human being is in need of love, selfhood, and power in society?

Humanity is now able to view the world with the idea that everything is changing, and many of those changes are for the worst. Thanks to the "father of paleontology" Georges Cuvier, people on Earth begin to see that every animal that has lived on Earth is still living. Scientists before Cuvier were under the perception that every creature had a divine purpose on Earth and was just another cog in the machine that made the Earth function. Cuvier, through the identification of fossils, was able to identify different species by using small distinctions in their anatomy. With the identification of many large animal bones around the world found, but no living specimens found, Cuvier concluded that these animals must be especes perdues, or lost species.