PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Young Earth Creationism, Evolutionism, Thermodynamics
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Theistic evolutionism: god created world and stepped away, let evolution take its course. Atheistic evolutionism: there is no god, only physical processes leading to evolution, god created world, god intervenes, (young earth; earth is 4000 years old, (no speciation) Thermodynamics makes evolution impossible: this is true of all science, the question is: what evidence for theory, no order from disorder, but this is for closed systems", the earth is not closed. Darwin noticed three things: offspring resemble their parents, offspring are not identical to their parents, some of the changes in offspring will affect their chances to mature. Why believe in a common ancestry for all life: obvious similarities of animals: 4 limbs of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, dna shared by all creatures, subtle similarities cytochrome-c. There are a huge number of possible functional structures ( > But all creatures have very similar cytochrome-c the more evolutionarily distant the more difference in their cytochrome-c molecules.
