Creation–evolution controversy

In chapter 3 of “Why Evolution Is True” by Jerry A. Coyne, he talks about remnants such as vestiges, embryos, and a bad design in which he describes manuscripts called palimpsests organisms of evolutionary history. In evolution, a feature of a specie that was an adaptation in its ancestor but lost its usefulness are called vestiges. These no longer perform the function from when they first evolved because those parts may have been import to their ancestors but not to them. The author states, “In…

Water is necessary for all complex life on Earth, from plants which use its molecules to synthesize energy from sun rays, to animal cells which use water molecules to repair more complex organic structures like DNA. In addition to drinking it, humans use water for sanitation, hygienics and agricultural irrigation. The multifarious and humanitarian uses for water make it especially alarming that water privatization has sharply increased in the past decades while groundwater levels have sharply…

Take a middle aged female scientist, for example. She wakes up only to go to a specialized facility where she can use tools and substances to develop and expand the knowledge of the world; all of this is done in attempts to speed the process of evolution. Furthermore, a salient part of revolutionizing is making mistakes, and even more importantly, learning from them. We see this in the entertainment and melodramas that have been in play since about 1800 B.C. Humanity is attracted to these…

Since the beginning of mankind, all human beings have and always will be selfish. There is no such thing a selfless good deed and altruism has ceased to exist. Selfishness is what allowed survival of the fittest. Julian Barnes touches on the subject in “The Visitors”, the second chapter of his novel, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters. In doing so, he relates two events in which a monkey and a man, Franklin Hughes, are left to make the ultimate decision of saving a loved one or making a…

Humanity and technology have coexisted since the beginning of mankind. If removed of technology, this species would not have survived as long as we have: since we do not have much hair, we would have frozen to death because there would have been no way to create and keep a fire going to warm us up enough to stay alive and keep predators away. If there was an encounter with a predator, the predator would have most likely prevailed due to our inferiority in strength and speed. The aid of…

Life is an extraordinary phenomenon in which the right factors come together in order to produce something great. The basic necessities required in order to sustain life on our planet are water, food, and shelter. Due to the infrastructure of our modern civilizations, if any of these factors are compromised, many lives will be affected. As of recently, Flint Michigan has been devastated due to an alteration in its source of public water. Initially, the city’s water came from Lake Huron. Budget…

The rotting away of different types of life forms is important in the cycle of life. Soft tissue can be broken down with no evidence that it ever existed at all. How crazy is that something that is alive for at least ten years, will leave this Earth without leaving a trace behind. I think that that is insane. How is there no memory of a life form? The hard parts like the wheel, bones, and teeth will remain because it has already been layered with minerals which will preserve it. Extinction is…

When I was little, I was not like the other girls. I had decided to trade my barbies for beetles. My favorite pastime consisted of marching to the empty field next to my house, armed with a butterfly net and a bug cage, to catch grasshoppers. I would use them as bait when I went fishing with my dad, as food for my praying mantis, or as points in a contest with my friends. This fascination has stuck with me as I have grown up. From the roly polies and lady bugs I caught in my backyard to the…

certain to know if selection was actually involved in the evolution of a complex trait. Many creationists criticize selection saying it is powerless on the more complex traits. A simple example includes the flagellum on bacteria that assists in movement; it must have been created by something supernatural. The issue with this criticism is that there aren’t any traits that couldn’t have been impacted by selection. The fossil record shows the evolution of many traits which allows them to be placed…

Spencer Fullerton Baird 1823-1887 First Director of the United States Fish Commission and father of modern fish stocking By David Downes – 100885094 October 6, 2015 BIOL 1010 – Assignment 1 Spencer Fullerton Baird was an important figure in early Biology and Ecology, and by the time of his death in 1887, he had become a renowned naturalist and scientist in Washington D.C.. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1823, Baird and his brother William grew up fascinated by nature,…