Question

Your response to the question should be long enough to address the question but limited to no more than two pages. These are essay style questions therefore you should give essay style answers. Do not copy the published work of others. If you cite the work of someone else, please provide the appropriate citation. Briefly, but completely respond to the question.

From the essay written by Stephen Jay Gould referred to in class (i.e., Evolution as Fact and Theory), what major points was Gould arguing for or against in this particular essay? What evidence or line of reasoning did he use to back up his argument? Can evolution be both a ‘fact’ and ‘theory’? Explain your reasoning in your response.

Answer 1

ESSAY OF EVOLUTION AS FACT AND THEORY

Evolution as Fact and Theory arguing for or against in this particular essay

Gould arguing MAJOR POINTS for or against in this particular essay

Creationists had come up with somewhat new or that generate some serious internal trouble.

Modern creationists work on two counts before we achieve the accurate detail of their attack against evolution. First, they play upon a language confusion of the word theory to express the false sense that we evolutionists were covering up the rotten center of our structure. Second, they misuse a philosophy of science to disagree that they are behave scientifically in attacking evolution.The same idea demonstrate that science is not their own belief, and scientific creationism is meaningless and self-opposing phrase.

That evolution occurre three general arguments. First, we abundanted direct,observational data of evolution in action from both the laboratory and field. This data range from experiments on change in everything about fruit flies subjected to false selection in the laboratory to the famous population of British moths that became black when industrial soot darkens the trees on which the moths rest. Creationists do not reject these observations.Creationists now argue that God only formed basic kinds and allow for limited evolutionary twisty within them. so toy poodles and Great Danes thought the dog kind and moths can vary color, but nature cannot change a cat to a dog or a monkey to a man.

The second and third argument—for major changes, evolution in action do not involve direct observation, but no less protected for that reason. main evolutionary change require soo much time for recorded human history.Historical science and evolution is no differ from geology and cosmology or human history. We must suppose them from result ,living and fossil organisms for evolution, document and artifact for human history, stratum and geology topography.

The third argument is transitions are frequently found in the fossil record. Preserved transitions are not common,according to our considerate of evolution as creationists often state.

The reptile’s lower jaw contain several bones. The jawbones of non-mammalian are reduced, The bones of hammer and anvil ,the mammalian ear are children of these nubbins. Surely a bone was entirely in the ear or in the jaw. So paleontologists had discovered 2 transitional lineage of mammal-like reptiles with a double jaw joint,one compose of the articular bones and old quadrate and the other is squamosal and dentary bones.

Eevidence or line of reasoning did he use to back up his argument

Thus creationists can argue: evolution is a theory only, and deep debate now rage about several aspects of the theory. If evolution is less than a fact and scientists could not even make up their mind about the theory, then what confidence could we have in it? He said that it is a theory. It is only a scientific theory, and it have in recent years had challenged in the world of science so not believed in the scientific community to be.

Can evolution be both a ‘fact’ and ‘theory’?

Evolutionists had been clear about this difference between fact and theory if only because we had alway known how far we are from completely understanding the theory by which evolution or fact occurre. Darwin emphasize the difference within his 2 great and separate accomplishment is that establishing the fact of evolution establishments, and proposed a theory about natural selection,to explain the evolution mechanism. He explain in The Descent of Man: he have two distinct objects ,firstly to show that species have not been separately created, and secondly that natural selection have been the chief agent of alteration.

So no any biologist have been to doubt the fact that evolution occurred, we are debat how it happened. We explained the same that the tree of evolution descent linking all organism by genealogy ties..

Secondly, creationists show that the separate creation’s dogma, as Darwin characterize it that it is a scientific theory merit equal time with evolution.

Evolution is a great idea of developed by science. Where did we come up to from? Where did life begin? How did we develop? How are organism relate to each other?