Many cultures have their specific creation stories. Sometimes certain people come up with their own ideas, of how the world was created, and the role of the Creator. One man had his own ideas, backed up with inductive and deductive arguments. He made his discoveries public. This aroused a lot of controversy, especially in the Church. Charles Darwin was his name, and he explains his view of the role of the Creator in the development of life, in his book, The Origin of Species. How does the role of this Creator differ from more traditional ways? While tackling this subject, my personal response on this conception of the Creator will be included.
Before Charles Darwin wrote his theory of evolution by natural selection, people had other ways of explaining living things. No scientific theory, it was assumed (and especially not an exclusively materialistic one), could adequately explain living things, especially human beings, without reference to a divine Creator or designer (Tordjman.p34). Some used the argument of intelligent design to prove the existence of a Creator. Their views were that the world was so complex and intelligent, how else could these things have been made? The design was so intelligent; it could have only been a designer behind all these creations.
Darwin had two conceptions of the Deity (supernatural Creator or God). The first was that a Creator, created a few forms in the beginning and those forms evolved by themselves. He states it like so, "[ ]he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms[ ]" (Tordjman.p.49). In other words, we have evolved from a common ancestor. We are the product of evolution. For example, humans have evolved from the same common ancestor as the chimp. Many people get confused and misunderstand this theory. These people see the chimp-human evolution the wrong way.
They are invasive species. ... But, a bias has been formed around invasive species. People are judging a species' danger by its origin. ... Well, because it is a native species. ... Here is a direct quote from the article: "Don't Judge Species on Their Origin", that explains why the Devils claw was and is not a a threat. ...
Major Synopsis Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" provides the foundation for modern biology, but its influence extends far beyond biology to such outlying areas as ethics. ... I have noticed from looking on the internet about the history of the book that many evolutionists and atheists quote Darwin's origin of species against many scripture versus from the King James version of the bible. ... I was confused though as the title was "The origin of species" origin as a whole was not discussed. There was no scientific answer for the origin and beginning of our species. ... I...
"Again, it may be asked, how is it that varieties, which I have called incipient species, become ultimately converted into good and distinct species," (Darwin) Darwin begin his discussion of how Natural selection benefits a species by questioning what natural selection is. ... He observes how a species survives perilously by adapting to its environment. ... Darwin notes the detrimental affect a new species introduced into an environment can have on the native species, often forcing them into extinction. ... That particular species would then become the dominant flower in the region. ... D...
The Origins of Humans. ... He noted, for example, that certain fossils of supposedly extinct species closely resembled living species in the same geographical area. ... Both observations raised the question of possible links between individual but similar species, and upon his return in 1836 he began recording his ideas about changeability of species in his Notebooks on the Transmutation of Species. ... Subsequently, Darwin published his complete theory in a book called On the Origin of Species in 1859; the book was sold out on the first day of publication and was referred to as "the book...
Animals or plants become synanthropic species because their natural environments are inhabited by people or changed and destroyed due to humans' activity.The reasons for as well as consequences of synanthropy usually are: - searching for plentiful and regular sources of nourishment in places inhabited or exploited by people - conditions favoring reproduction and the feeling of being protected against natural enemies With regard for their origin, synanthropic species are divided into two groups.The first one includes species of urban origin which are called autochtomic. ... Species whi...
The term Evolution that is prescribed to the origins of life was a monumental endowment of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). ... In 1859, Charles Darwin would set the world on fire with his twenty-two years of research compiled in a book called, The Origin of Species. Depending on who you ask, it might be said that Darwin's The Origin of Species did for non-Christian advocates what the Bible had done and does for Christian proponents. The Origin of Species eloquently illustrated how inbreeding, mutations, and natural selection occurred within species that would generate an entirely different...
Even though federal and national government agencies have past many laws and regulations to help endangered species and to try to prevent the addition of more species to the endangered species list, the amount of species on the list has not dropped as significantly as they were predicted to. (Endangered species) "So far, 18 animals and 5 plants have been removed from the U.S. endangered species list. ... As species become extinct they are replaced by other species, which are more suited to a particular environment. All species become extinct sooner or later. ... The Wild Bird Conservatio...
But the continuum of observations and experiments fail to validate its claims to the origin of life. ... or the origin of life or the species; that complex man evolved from simple form. ... Darwin realized when he says:Not one change of species into another is on record?we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.? ... The Origin of the Species held as an icon in biological science has the chapterDifficulties,? ...
He wrote "I"m aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced be some as highly irreligious, but those who denounce them need to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of the grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance." ...