Miles Kim

The History Deniers

Which of the following statements comes closest to your views
on the origin and development of human beings?
o Human beings have developed over millions of years and
less advanced forms of life, but god had no part in this
process
Damaging Actions
o Teach disruptive classroom techniques
o Creation Museum in Kentucky
Run by a tax exempt organization
o Medical students distributing leaflets that dismiss Darwins
theory as false
o Exporting of creationism
Transitional Forms and Common Ancestors
o No modern species is descended from any other modern
species
o Evolution does say that any two species share a common
ancestor
That common ancestor is not half of one species and
half the other species
The common ancestor may look absolutely nothing
like either of the two animals
o Gradualism genetic change occurs over generations
IC #1
o Living things have fantastically intricate anatomical
features that couldnt function if they were any less
complex or sophisticated. The only prudent conclusion is
that they are the products of intelligent design, not
evolution.
o Pocket watch analogy
o Natural forces of selection, acting on inherited features,
gradually shapes the evolution of ornate organic
structures.
IC #2:
o Recent discoveries prove that even at the microscopic
level, life has a quality of complexity that could not have
come about through evolution
IC #3
o Mathematically, it is inconceivable that anything as
complex as a protein, let alone a living cell or a human,
could spring up by chance.
o Evolution does not rely on chance to create organisms

 There is randomness in mutations

o Natural selection is a force that harnesses nonrandom
changes
Preserves desirable mutations and eliminates
undesirable ones
o Analogy To be or no to be
Review:

Modern evolutionary theory is a scientific theory constantly

tested, with all evidence found to date supporting
evolution
o Process identical to artificial selection
o Fossil Record
o Richard Lenskis E. coli experiments