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Fear and Loathing in America : Why Are We So Scared of Evolution ?. Topic 6. Chapter 10. Individuals vary in basic characteristics. Antelope Running Speed. Maximum lion speed. Not everyone survives ( struggle for existence ). Antelope Running Speed. Survival is not random.

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  1. Fear and Loathing in America: Why Are We So Scared of Evolution? Topic 6 Chapter 10

  2. Individuals vary in basic characteristics Antelope Running Speed

  3. Maximumlion speed Not everyone survives (struggle for existence) Antelope Running Speed

  4. Survival is not random Averageantelopespeed Antelope Running Speed

  5. Survivors pass traits totheir offspring Averageantelopespeed Antelope Running Speed

  6. Populations evolve! Averageantelopespeed Antelope Running Speed

  7. Natural Selection The struggle for existence

  8. The “Theory” of Evolution Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1898

  9. Geology is Alive!!

  10. LAURASIA LAURASIA PANGAEA PANGAEA GONDWANALAND GONDWANALAND 135 million years ago NORTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA EURASIA AFRICA INDIA SOUTH AMERICA MADA- GASCAR MADA- GASCAR AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA ANTARCTICA ANTARCTICA 65 million years ago 120° 80° 40° 80° 120° 120° 80° 80° 120° 225 million years ago 120° 80° 120° 120° 0° 40° 120° Present

  11. Artificial Selection

  12. Pesticide Resistance

  13. Evolving Viruses • Annual flu vaccine • HIV: highest mutation rate known

  14. Cetacean Evolution dolphin hippo

  15. Our Vestigial Organs

  16. Wisdom Teeth

  17. “The beauty of evolution lies not in perfection, but rather in its imperfection”LMW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1a1Ek-HD0

  18. So, what’s the problem? Religion vs. Science Georgia High School Curriculum/Disclaimers (2004, 2008)

  19. Creation Science Supreme Court 1987 The teaching of creation science in Louisiana schools is unconstitutional because its purpose is to advance a particular religious belief.

  20. From Creation Science to Intelligent Design "Creationists talk about a theory like it's something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”Isaac Asimov

  21. Watchmaker = Designer

  22. What use is half an eye?

  23. Education and Beliefs High School College 50 40 % 30 20 10 Creation Evolution Belief

  24. Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development 2003-2010 Proficiency (% attaining highest levels) *** *** *** "We've been asleep for a good number of years as a country. It's not that we're doing horrible. But the other guys are moving faster.” Richard Freeman (Economics, Harvard)

  25. OMFG!!! Did I descendfrom an ape?

  26. Lucy Neanderthal Homo sapiens Did we descend from Apes?

  27. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

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