evolutionism and creationism

can you believe in creationism and evolution at the same time?

• you can be an intelligent scientist and believe in creationism

• you can be a Bible-believing Christian and believe in evolution

to know truth you must what?

build relationships each person has their own beliefs, knowledge and experiences

what does nature exist?

• it beckons us to our Creator

• intuitively humans have seen God’s character in nature

Cicero

makes the watchmaker analog but with a sundial

Paul

says something similar to Cicero but he gives God a name in his excerpt

describe science pre-Darwin

• science is exalted (natural theology)

• science is a way to know God more clearly

• must study nature to understand the Creator

How did Aristotle’s proposal of fixity impact the world around him?

• Christians attached to this theory and thought animals wouldn’t change ever, period.

• Thomas Jefferson though Lewis and Clark should have found dinosaurs (nothing would go extinct)

James Ussher 1581-1656

• says earth is 6000 years old (young creationist)

• made a timeline from his day all the way back to Christ and back to genesis

• says God created earth 4000 BC

• species fixity, no extinction

Geoges Louis Buffon

• environment will influence trait/ phenotype

  ex. fur color may change with season and climate

Lamarckian evolution

• created by Jean Baptiste de Lamark

• during animals life it will gain benefits and then pass these onto its offspring

what are some examples of Lamarckian evolution?

• olympian parents often have olympian children

• giraffes have a drive to reach their necks up, now have long necks

why is Lamarckian evolution not widely accepted

there was an instance where the tails of mice were chopped off over thousands of generations, offspring always had tails

• a lot of them these changes were not connected

Darwin’s theory of evolution

1. random variation

2. struggle for existence

3. natural selection

4. speciation (really its natural selection)

   1. ex. faster cheetahs get more gazelles and in turn reproduce so trait lives on

what happened when Darwin published?

people decided to put natural selection over God