Activity name and number: Activity 04 - Intellectual revolutions that defined society: Darwin

A. Complete a table like the one below by writing five arguments that anti-evolutionist say about
evolution, and what does evidence/science say about evolution. An italized example is given below. (10
points)

What Anti-evolutionists Say What does science/evidence say

E.g. Evolution is just a theory
1. Humans descended from monkeys and yet
there are still monkeys
2. Mutation can only eliminate traits. It cannot
produce new features
3. Nobody has ever seen a new species evolve
4. Natural selection is based on the reasoning
that the fittest are those who survive
5. Evolution is not experimental so it cannot be
checked or rejected.
Theory and hypothesis are not the same. Theory
is a corroborated explanation of an aspect of the
natural world. It has been repeatedly confirmed
and accepted as ‘true’
When populations of organisms become
separated from the main branch of their family
and develop adequate distinctions to stay
indefinitely separate, new species emerge by
splintering off from existing ones.
Biology has catalogued many traits produced by
point mutations changes at precise positions in
an organism's DNA.
Speciation is possibly uncommon, and it may take
centuries in certain circumstances. Recognizing a
species during its formative stage may be difficult
since scientist may argue on which specie it
belongs.
Rather than classifying organisms as more or less
fit, one can estimate how many offspring they
would produce in a given situation.
This rejection of evolution as a whole lacks key
differences that separate the discipline into at
least two categories: microevolution and
macroevolution.