Scientific Resistance

Who are Rosemary and Peter Grant? What did they study and where? How did they demonstrate that natural selection occurs?

Charles Darwin presented his theology of evolution which would change the way some people saw humanity. Darwin’s theory of evolution along with Social Darwinism and Eugenics made significant impact in our world. Darwinism classified people, initiated Social Darwinism and Eugenics, and made Fundamentalist Christians opposed such things. Darwinism suggested that every living thing developed through a natural process of evolution.

Darwin received less audience in the population that felt that their beliefs were challenged. Although Darwin was not the

This project was started in the hope of finding demographic information and anecdotes that spoke to how indigenous peoples who have survived Residential (substitute for the word reform, death, or both,) Schools, and how their lives have changed. It was wrong to have thought that something so definitive would have been found. However, I have learned the greatest form of resistance to the very government and structures that put them in these schools are their voices. It seemed odd to just focus on the schools and not the undeniable repercussions and trauma that the students/prisoners went through.

At the turn of the century, traditionalists were making an effort to combat the teachings of evolution. The anti-evolution movement originated for many reasons. First, as a response to new scientific evidence that

Darwin’s theories and discoveries caused much controversy to the world and still does today. These controversies occur more in

Religion. The primary reason that not all people accept evolution is because it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Evolution can be proven true simply by explaining natural selection, but people will only change their beliefs if their original belief is proven untrustworthy. When closely examined, religion can be proven false, opening the doors to belief in Darwin’s theory. Usually, religious scripture teaches that humans and animals were created by a divine being, rather than evolving over time from simple organisms to what we are now.

In 1895 Charles Darwin published a book describing his theory of evolution, and his theory of the natural selection process. This theory caused much uproar in the religious community because Darwin’s theory went against the story of creation portrayed in the Holy Bible. His theory claimed that all life currently in place had evolved and adapted from a single organism in the beginning. Over time and by process of natural selection only the dominant species were left over while the other, less dominant species, went extinct. His theory, backed by scientific analysis, had dismissed the idea of a single deity creating all life on Earth. It is not like Darwin had a personal agenda against religion or anything,

“As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. “ - Francis P. Yockey

Darwin tries to present that the objections were not serious hindrances to his theory and what is known is the significant areas is better explained than by his main rival, which is direct design of each organism by the

Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is a theory that is and has been widely accepted for many years. The reason for this widespread acceptance is the many strengths that Darwin’s theory has. However, even though this is true, Darwin's theory has a few weaknesses. Darwin, although close, did not paint a full realistic picture of evolution with his theory.

     Darwin’s Theories upset the church, one of the things that he proposed was that all living things may have descended from the same species. Today it is believed that life may have started as replicating molecules. Darwin introduced the idea that life is not just evolving but the earth is also changing. This went against creationism, the Bible says that god created the world and all the animals. It also separated man from the animals because god created man in

In the history of science vs. religion there have been no issues more intensely debated than evolution vs. creationism. The issue is passionately debated since the majority of evidence is in favor of evolution, but the creation point of view can never be proved wrong because of religious belief. Human creation breaks down into three simple beliefs; creation theory, naturalistic evolution theory, and theistic evolution theory. The complexities of all three sides create a dilemma for what theory to support among all people, religious and non-religious.

Before the theory of evolution was a widespread theory in the world of science, Greek and Roman philosophers had their own theories about how life came to its present state and where it was going from there. One theory at the time was that all organisms are reflections of a “perfect” form and were coming closer to it all the time, although this was the less accepted theory even though it was closer to the truth proven hundreds of years after, while another was that all things were simply places on Earth in their present form, common to modern day Creationism. Even after this, Darwin was not the first to try explain evolution, he just provided convincing proof and published his ideas. The publishing of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was

Why do young bright minds of India want to take up science or research as a promising career path in the first place? Doesn’t it feel like a risk? What career opportunities does one have after getting a PhD? These questions are bugging me quite a lot these days. For most of us, born and brought up in middle class urban society are taught right from the start to work hard and be well educated enough to secure a good job. Seemingly it is the gateway to lead a comfortable life. I think in India it is the most important thing in life. Getting a decent job. It’s the only thing that matters. No matter how creative you are and harbor any kind of alternate ambitions otherwise it becomes secondary after a point. So growing up, the thought of pursuing science and research could only be such a far-fetched dream for many of us I guess.