BIOL 3040 : BIO 3040 Test One
Document Summary
4 concepts of evolution: change, time, populations, genetics. Evolutions has everyday importance : applications in epidemiology, origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin. Course objective: change the way you look at the living world. Methodological naturalism: all scientific inquiry, including evolutionary biology, relies on methodological naturalism: all hypotheses to be tested must be based on natural causes and events. Events which cannot be tested are, by definition, supernatural: methodological naturalism is distinct from philosophical naturalism: the belief that existence is confined solely to the natural, acceptance of the evidence for evolution can be compatible with religious faith. Creation stories: involve intervention of supernatural forces. 610-546 bc) philosopher; one of the earliest proponents of naturalism. Darwin"s views on the relationships among livings things: darwin"s: no progression of things that are increasingly better; no hierarchy, aristotle does not believe in change over time.
