BIO 200LLB Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beagle, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIO 200LLB
• Professor: Herreid, C F

Document Summary

How can we account for the variety. God created organisms exactly as we see them today by a miracle. Consistent with the view that miracles occur and god intervenes in daily affairs. Its usefulness began to fail - 400 years ago. The earth looked older than 10,000 years. It was good hypotheses because it was simple and it simulated research into exploring god"s creations. It was not a good hypothesis because it depends upon supernatural explanations- miracles, can be tested well. Jean baptiste lamarck (1809) (frenchman) came along and questioned. The origin of life is not know and a god or gods may or may not have been involved. There was no mechanism for this change. Then he proposed evolution by acquired characteristics. 50 years later charles darwin published the origin of species (1859) claiming evolution occurred by natural selection. Trip on the hms beagle to south america. Darwin changed from an ordinary creationist to an extraordinary evolutionist.