BIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James Hutton, Woodpecker Finch, Glyptodont

• School: SJSU
• Department: Biological Sciences Department
• Course: BIOL 101
• Professor: Candace Low

Document Summary

Its conjectures (guesses/ideas) must be testable empirically (with hard data). Its conclusions are tentative and not necessarily the final word. Science: (1500-1700) no purpose in physical world-newton and copernicus. Clerics: earth is young and created for a purpose: archbishop james usher used lineages in the old testament to estimate an age of the earth (created oct 23, 4004. Based on rocks, the earth is billions of years old. Changes occur through natural process over a long time. Non biblical explanation for earth"s history using newtonian physics. Planets from a comet striking the sun. Fossils are the remains of extinct species. Not consistent with the great chain of being since links would be removed. No extinction (you cannot inherit a trait and pass it on) The present is the key to the past . Processes that occur in the present are the same as those of the past. Small changes over a long time can cause major changes.