BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Special Creation, Botany, Gradualism
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Darwin"s big idea and how it hanged biology. Living things change gradually from one form to another over time. Challenges view of special creation ( = direct creation of all things in e ectively their present form) special creation is the idea of the creation of all living thins in their unique form. The concept of a changing universe replaced the view of a static world. It was a phenomenon without purpose replaced view that the causes of all phenomena had to have a purpose. There is no di erence between evolution as a scienti c idea and gravity as the purpose of gravity is to keep us on earth adaptation, bio diverstiy and spices are consequences of the process. His problem was he had a linear rather than a branching view. The other problem was his theory was based on the inheritance of acquired characters.
