BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Phenotype, Aphid, Special Creation
30 Jan 2014
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Before darwin, biologists were looking to answer these questions and didn"t really have a lot of information. Their answer to these kinds of questions was special creation. Special creation is an idea that pervaded the globe. If we were to draw it out schematically, time is progressing and origin of all species (separately, recently and independently). Before darwin, biologists made some observations that suggested that special creation wasn"t really the best idea for the answers for these questions: species didn"t remain exactly the same over time. In the past, people might not have the information if a species has gone extinct. When the dodo bird went extinct, it was one of the first time biologists realized something can cease to exist: a lot of study of fossils. Fossil record provides this idea there"s more to it than just an independent one-time creation event. Also thought of the evolution by natural selection.
