Similarities Between Evolution And Evolution

In Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?, Alvin Plantinga argues that proponents of naturalism, like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, tell us that, according to the theory of evolution, neither God nor any other agent has designed or created the living world, and that evolution, therefore, clearly contradicts the central tenant of theistic religion (which Dennett labels “entirely gratuitous fantasy” ). If what these experts say is true and we must understand evolution only in the context of naturalistic, unguided evolution, “then evolutionary theory is deeply incompatible with theistic religion, whether Christian…or Jewish.” However, Plantinga stresses that evolution does not need to be interpreted in this way, and that, because of this, religion does not have to be held in such opposition to science at all. Christian and Jewish doctrines require only that “God intended to create creatures of a certain kind…planned that there be creatures of that kind…and acted in such a way as to accomplish this intention,” and such a claim is clearly consistent with evolutionary theory in that naturalism is not a necessary requirement of the theory itself. In this paper I will explore the positions of the Jewish faith with respect to the question of evolutionary theory, and, more explicitly, will draw comparisons between Judaism and Christianity to investigate whether popular religion is as staunchly opposed to evolutionary theory as Dawkins and Dennett propose. If the work of

One of the biggest arguments against the theory of evolution and the theory of common ancestry is that they are theories. A scientific theory is an explanation for something in the natural world supported by facts and has successfully gone

Evolution is the process of change of living organisms over a long period of time due to difference of environment or circumstances that was not prevalent before. These evolutionary mutations occur due to things such as a change of environment where what may have been shallow water has gradually gotten deeper and thus the organisms that inhabited that land had to change in order to remain living in that area without risk. This also relates to things such as storms that may alter the habitat of the previous land where what something may have eaten has changed and the organism was altered to match that environment. This then has an affect on the history of human evolution, humans and apes relate to a similar origin and were very similar many years ago and this is known as primate phylogeny. This Extended research task will go in depth with the origins of man and the relation between man and apes through primate

Darwin once hypothesized that humans evolved from an ape like ancestor and that those ancestors most likely originated in Africa since the majority of the great apes lived there. Unfortunately, Darwin’s hypothesis was ignored for reasons such as people (e.g. Europeans) not liking of having African ancestors—not to mention the lack of evidence did not help in supporting such hypothesis. Thus, finding the missing link between apes and humans was of great important—it still is. Thankfully, through extensive research many scientists have been able to determine a clade called Hominin [7]. This clade contains humans as well as their most closely related relatives.

Charles Darwin is a naturalist, well known for his studies on evolution. In 1871 he wrote The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, which explored evidence pertaining to anatomical, medical, embryological, and behavioral differences amongst species. His research findings showed that the human embryo develops the body, cells, proteins, blood, and DNA in developmental stages similar to other species. Darwin also concluded there is evidence that strongly suggests that humans have a common ancestry with apes, more specifically chimpanzees (Stevenson, Haberman, & Wright, 2013, p. 250). In addition to Dawin’s findings, Diamond (1992) further suggests how humans have evolved away from apes. Major differences that began to differentiate

Throughout time man has evolved. Common belief is that Homo sapiens evolved from primates and then, by following the Darwinistic theory of evolution, Neanderthals, when in fact they all evolved alongside each other, sharing common ancestors rather than directly coming from one another. This then lead to similarities in the DNA as well to the high probability that there was interbreeding between the species; phylogenic tree mappings of the mitochondrial DNA of numerous different modern humans from around the world as well as the mtDNA of an assortment of Homo neanderthalensis were able to show the similarities of the two species along with the human descent from their origins in Africa to other areas of the world.

There have been many human fossils found in China, from more than 70 different sites, in fact. They all have common features and demonstrate the gradual change in them, representing gene flow. These fossils found are both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. There are some elements in fossil skulls found in China, that gear more towards a Neandertal lineage. This indicates gene flow between Neandertals in the West, and those fossils found in the East. In 1998, Xinzhi Wu suggested a hypothesis, that with this evidence, there is continuance with hybridization for human evolution in China. Though modern humans of East Asia might have originated in China, there have also been links that some nonhuman primates are from China. However, additional findings

Evolution has explain why there are so many similarities among organisms but are so many different kinds of plants, animals, and microorganisms. How is it possible and how does evolution affect humans today?

A long held and widely spread misconception is modern humans descended from apes. While we may have common ancestry, we are not simply evolved monkeys. We are not evolutions of apes in the same way as chimps did not descend from gorillas. Humans and chimpanzees are within the same tribe, however, that does not imply that we are descendants of each other, simply that we shared an ancestor earlier on.

Creation and evolution, may be very different theories, but do they have to conflicted each other so much as seen in society? Could they in fact complement each other? The ideas of both evolution and creation, separates science from believe. It is seen as the dividing line, for two sides, science and biblical believers, trying to explain how we how we have come to what we are today. Creationism describes that there is a God, who created the world and the universe. From the bible, they have come to an conclusion that the world was created 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, and was made within 7 days. God created the world and made the animals and created humans, in his image (Genesis). Evolution on the other hand, is conflicted on what creationism says. They believe that living organisms developed from simple one celled organisms into what they are today, through natural selection. The world was made 4.5 billion years ago, letting there be change in kinds (fish to a monkey, etc.), not just as adaptation, but changing with time, becoming smarter into what humans are today. Creationism is more centred to the God based information and His word, the Bible, and evolution is more science based, more time based. This brings conflict towards different groups and societies, all around the world.

Scientists and philosophers alike have been searching for the truth, each coming up with various theories about the human race’s origin. The theory of Evolution, a theory presented by one of the greatest figure in biology, Charles Darwin, demonstrated the evolution process that animals undergo to keep up with their environment. Darwin collected and cataloged his evidence from the five year voyage for about twenty years before publishing all his findings in a book titled, The Origin of Species, and used it to prove that natural selection occurs in evolution (Natural Selection 1). He then proposed the theory of evolution with the purpose to explain how important of a role the process of natural selection played in determining what animals would be around for future generations. As a result, today his theory of evolution has become the unifying theory for all biology, which supports the connection that through time animals have evolved into the human race, reminding the human species that our ancestors are animals (Natural Selection). With that being said, the relationship between humans and animals is clear.

With the development and use of techniques that take of advantage of genetics, we have been allowed to see into the biological connects and lineages of human ancestors. When studying the lineages of humans, we look to the mitochondria DNA that is passed on from mother to offspring. By look at MtDNA anthropologist hoped to find different and similar DNA types that will lead them to ancestor. They determined that the MtDNA in modern humans can be track back all the way to a single woman. (Lewin 2004) This woman was given the flashy and misleading name of Mitochondrial Eve as her DNA has been only preserved through a linage that consistency produces female offspring to pass on her DNA. Through the analysis of DNA we can also see the genetic diversity of our species. Most animal populations have wide pool of genetic diversity, but humans are different is actually having a very narrow gene pool. Human has one tenth of genetic variation of other apes. (Lewin 2004) By using a mathematical method that can track the mutation rate across DNA of modern human, the lack of variation suggest that H. sapiens evolved very recently within the last 280,000 years. (Lewin 2004) This explanation would support the recent African origin as it clearly put a fairly recent date on the appearance of H. sapiens. Despite this explanation, there is also the possibly of a bottle neck event occurring early on in human history. A bottleneck event occurs when the genetic variation of a species is greatly reduced due a causes like a massive wide spread deaths, and despite the massive reduction the species can still live and on flourish. A bottleneck event could have occurred during the Multiregional origin, because history shown causes like wide spread diseases could enough force to reduce the gene pool. But as Lewin points over these two explanations are not

Human evolution is the gradual process in which people, or Homo sapiens, originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence, particularly in the form of fossils and secondary remains, show that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people evolved over a period of approximately six million years. Humans are primates. Both genetic and physical similarities show that humans and the great apes (large apes) of Africa, chimpanzees (including bonobos, or so-called “pygmy chimpanzees”) and gorillas share a common ancestor that lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. The volume of fossils found in Africa suggests that most evolution occurred there and is likely the place of origin for early humans. This brings to fruition the “out of Africa” theory, also called the “single-origin hypothesis.”

Evolution is the modification of characteristics of living organisms over generations (StrangeScience.net, 2015); it is the gradual process of development by which the present diversity of living organisms arose from the earliest forms of life, which is believed to have been ongoing for at least the past 3000 million years (Hine, 2004). Common ancestry are groups of living organisms that share the most recent common ancestor, by which scientific evidence proves that all life on Earth are descendants from the previous universal ancestor (DarwinWasRight.org, 2015). Additionally, opposing theories against Evolution, primarily the Christianity religion, explain that God is the ‘creator’ and is the source of all existence.

Closely related organisms have very similar DNA. It turns out humans share over 90% of the same DNA with ape-like creatures. We can conclude that they have a relatively recent common ancestor. Another way to determine the relatedness of two organisms is finding fossils of a species that displays an intermediate stage between the two existing ones. This intermediate species most likely became extinct, but not before some of them evolved even more towards humans. The proposed common ancestor between humans and apes is likely an extinct species named “Pan Prior”. It gets pretty in depth from there, but there is no current fossil existing of it, but analysis of its DNA shows many signs of a common ancestor. It most likely existed 8 million years ago. The ape is the most closely related living organism to the human. It is evident that species so similar must have a common ancestor.