Evolution vs' Creationism

1
(No Transcript)
2
Evolution vs. Creationism

• Laura Binder
• Ted Childs
• Jennifer Poole
• Sophia Rich

3

• NOW PLEASE WATCH THE SHORT FILM

4
What is Creationism?

• Despite many people's tendency to think of all
  creationists in one group and all evolutionists
  in another, "creationism" refers to a wide range
  of beliefs
• http//www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wic.html

5
What Is Evolution?

• "In the broadest sense, evolution is merely
  change... is change in the properties of
  populations of organisms that transcend the
  lifetime of a single individual... Biological
  evolution may be slight or substantial it
  embraces everything from slight changes in the
  proportion of different alleles within a
  population to the successive alterations that led
  from the earliest proto-organism to snails, bees,
  giraffes, and dandelions."
• - Douglas J. Futuyma in Evolutionary Biology,
  Sinauer Associates 1986

6
Creationism

• CREATION
• Flat Earthers
• Geocentrists
• Young Earth Creationists
• (Omphalos)

7
Creationism Continued

• Old Earth Creationists
• (Gap Creationism)
• (Day-Age Creationism)
• (Progressive Creationism)
• (Intelligent Design Creationism)

8
Creationism Continued

• Evolutionary Creationists
• Theistic Evolutionists
• Methodological Materialistic Evolutionists
• Philosophical Materialistic Evolutionists

9
Evolution

• There are actually two categories of
  evolutionists
• -Darwinian Evolutionists
• Non-Darwinian Evolutionists

10
Why All the Debate?

• Some evolutionary Scientists believe that there
  is such a debate over evolution because most
  non-scientific people do not understand the true
  meaning of evolution.
• evolution is simply "a process that results in
  heritable changes in a population spread over
  many generations" yet most people do not
  understand this. They believe that evolution is
  simply an anti-religion theory.
• http//www.talkorgins.org/origins/faqs.html

11
Why All the Debate ? Cont.

• Scientists think that if the public could
  understand this meaning, much of the debate
  between evolutionists and creationists would
  disappear.
• Scientists are trying to prove that all people
  who believe in Evolution are not necessarily
  atheists
• http//www.talkorgins.org/origins/faqs.html

12
What Happened in the Past

• In the past, dating back to the 1920s, Evolution
  was not taught in schools, and was in fact
  illegal in many states.
• One such famous example was in the famous Scopes
  trial of 1925, which challenged the Tennessee law
  banning the teaching of Evolution.

13
The Scopes Trial

• A Tennessee Biology teacher , John Scopes, was
  put on trial for teaching Darwins theory of
  Evolution.
• Clarence Darrow was assigned to defend him with
  William Jennings Bryan being the lead prosecutor,
  and expert witness on the Bible.

14
The Scopes Trial Cont.

• In the end Scopes was convicted and fined, but
  the ruling was later overturned by a higher
  court.
• As a result many other states (all but two)
  dropped their anti-evolution laws from the law
  books.
• http//www.law.umkc.edu

15
Which Is More Beneficial ?
OR
(DARWIN)
(ADAM)
- http//physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/ORIGINS/o
rigins.html
16
Our Belief

• We believe that in order to give children a
  comprehensive education, both evolution as well
  as Devine Theory should be taught, and neither
  should be discounted, however neither should be
  enforced as a belief.

17
Why?

• We feel this way because this method has many
  advantages
• Students get all the facts
• Students are given the chance to make decisions
  on their own.

18
How about that Apple?
19
Thank You For Your Attention!

• BROUGHT TO YOU BY LTJS INC. A NON-PROFIT
  ORGANIZATION.