Biology 1001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intelligent Design, Adaptation, Allele
4 Dec 2015
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Biology lecture 4 why evolution is true. Dover trial: school board in dover, pennsylvania took it upon themselves to teach evolution and evolution by natural selection. Gave equal time to the idea of intelligent design. Dover trial was against idea of intelligent idea . Judge ruled that intelligent design was not a scientific idea. Humans evolved from earlier species of animals. Acceptance of human evolution: most americans agree god created humans in the present form. Evolution is only a theory : theory: an assumption based on limited knowledge a, scientific theory: a coherent set of testable hypotheses conjecture that attempt to explain facts about the natural world. True : what do scientistis mean when we say that something is. An assertion for which there is so much evidence that it would be perverse to deny it sj gould. Test a theory by attempting to falsify it. Design a series of experiments to prove theory false.
