The History of Earth through the Process of Evolution

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Throughout Genesis 1-11, one of the main subjects covered is the natural world. Genesis 1 in particular provides crucial information for understanding the origin of the natural world. In the first verse of the entire Bible (Genesis 1:1), the reader is immediately told that “God created the heavens and the earth.” Additionally, the reader is informed that “there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” (Genesis 1:31), showing that God’s work of creation took six days. Because I believe that God created the world in six literal days, the foundation of my worldview is entirely different than the foundation of an atheist’s worldview. When I look at the world around me, I do not view everything around me as the product of random chance and evolution; instead, I see everything around me as the handiwork of God.

Both theories suggest that a species changes over time to be able to better adapt to an environment. Though Lamarck thought that the entire population of that species would evolve as one, i.e. all offspring changes together with same adaptation. Darwin concluded that only the specimen with the mutation or an altered version of a feature to evolve a species as they would be able to adapt and survive easier than those without it, thus causing the “unevolved” to die off while the “evolved” lived. Over many many generations the species keeps evolving until it has perfected the new trait, also becoming a new

The first known ancestor of the horse lived around 55 million years ago. This dog-sized animal was called the Hyracotherium, and the fossils were found in North America. This animal is said to look nothing like a horse, instead it had dog-like characteristics such as an arched back, short snout, and long tail.

Charles Darwin believed in Evolution and natural selection. Evolution according to Charles Darwin was that all life is related in some way and has descended from a common ancestor. As random genetic mutations occur in an organism’s genetic code, the beneficial mutations aid in survival – this is called natural selection. Organisms that develop random mutations are better adapted to their environment and tend to survive and produce more offspring. Lamarck’s viewpoint on evolution was the law of use and disuse. He hypothesised that organisms react to changes in their environment by changing or strengthening a certain organ. Whilst an organ will stop working or disappear if it is stopped being used. The fault is this theory was that it could not explain how these strengthened or unused organs are passed on to other generations of the same organism. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is right, but Lamarck wasn’t far off the mark. A good example of Lamarck’s law of use and disuse in the Homo sapiens is that of the appendix. The appendix is an organ which is commonly believed to have ‘stopped working’, this organ was the remnant of large fermenting gut for plant life. This organ has ceased to work as Homo sapiens have stopped eating plant matter and started to eat organisms consisting of meat. This somewhat strengthens Lamarck’s

The ongoing scientific investigation of how exactly evolution occurred and continues to occur has been an argumentative idea amongst society since Darwin first articulated it over a century ago. The scientific basis of evolution accounts for happenings that are also essential concerns of religion; both religion and science focus on the origins of humans and of biological diversity. For instance, in the reading “Truth Cannot Contradict Truth,” Pope John Paul II, addressing the Pontifical Academy of Science, discussed the matter of God as creator of man. The Pope explains that men cannot relate to animals because men are superior. The reasoning for that is because God created humans under his likeness. What the church is saying about mankind

In the old Earth view of the original creation of Earth we are told about the

The natural history of CSM is difficult to determine because in the vast majority of the cases the symptoms are associated with age and other neurologic conditions of the patients. Different reports suggest different observations. An assessment of natural history of disease advancement in CSM essentially involves the prognosis in the absence of surgical interventions. The determination of prognosis involves evaluation of validity, applicability, and results.

Evolution for the horses are good example for this topic. The evolution of the horse happened over a geologic time scale of 50 million years, transforming the small, dog-sized into the modern horse. According to the theory of evolution, it is possible to follow horse evolution through millions of years: how the horse slowly became stronger and bigger, lost lot of its toes and their tooth structure has been changed due to change diet habits from a wide leaved plants, trees and bushes to eating hard dry grass. This evolution is have been gone through by a cool and dry climate. Their toes used to be four at the front and three at the back, spread-eagled at different angles which helps them from sinking in the muddy ground. As the climate became

Lamarckism provided insufficient proof of information to back up historical theory. Darwinism gave a reasonable amount of proof to back up his historical theory. Lamarck argued their point that the environment that was placed on animals changed their genetic material, which caused the stretching of a giraffe to reach the highest branches produced its offspring to have longer necks, which made the stretching of the giraffe a genetic material. Darwin argued their point that the genetic materials was produced and fixed for individual animals, but the variables occurred between each individual. The giraffes that had a slightly longer neck to other giraffes were more likely to produce more children because they would be better feeding on things

After analysing relevant diagrams and information explaining the process of evolution it will be evident of which scientists’ evolutionary theory best aligns with the evolution of the chosen species.Living organisms are believed to have developed from earlier forms throughout history as a result of Evolution (oxforddictionaries,2014). The species to be further researched on is the Giraffe. ‘Darwinism’ and ‘Lamarckism’ are the two main theories focused on throughout the analysis, both will be investigated to determine the comparisons and differences towards the evolutionary process of a Giraffes life.

Jean Lamarck understood evolution as the change in an individual and their characteristics based on their needs, which were then passed down to their offspring. He believed in the ‘law of use and disuse’ which basically means if a species or organism were to use an organ extensively it would gradually become more enhanced however, if an organ were used less frequently in a species it would become weaker or even lost. To support his theory he used giraffes and the evolution of their necks. He believed that giraffes stretched their necks to reach the leaves on lower branches of trees to eat the leaves and as a result of this their necks gradually became longer. As a result, the characteristics were passed down through generations eventually forming the modern day giraffe to suit the environment that they live

Biological evolution is the name for the changes in gene frequency in a population of a species from generation to generation. Evolution offers explanation to why species genetically change over years and the diversity of life on Earth. Although it is generally accepted by the scientific community, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been studied and debated for several decades. In 1859, Darwin published On The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolutionary thought which he supported with evidence of one type of evolutionary mechanism, natural selection. Some of the main mechanisms of evolution are natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift. The idea that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor has been around for

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1755-1829) is one of the best-known early evolutionists, holding a belief that evolution was a continuous development and strived toward greater complexity and perfection. Through which, his theory of evolution was that living organisms evolved in a unceasingly up ward direction, from dead matter, through simple to more complex forms and towards human “perfection” (Nesci.edu, 2015). From his theories of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics; where organisms adapt to their environments and those changes were passed onto their off springs (Corbis, 2001), to his theories of Use and Disuse, where organisms that are not used progressively disappear (Evolution.berkeley.edu, 2015). Lamarck was the first biologist to publish

Many knowledge claims in human and natural science are based on theories. Jean Lamarck proposed the theory of evolution in 1801. The theory of evolution proposed by Lamarck was based on the idea that organisms had to change their behavior to survive. For instance, if a giraffe stretched it neck for a long period of time to reach the leaves as the top of the tree, then a “nervous fluid” would flow in the neck and make it longer. Thus, its