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Why Does Christianity Have A Tradition Of Denying Science Instead Of Growing By It?


When Galileo showed that the earth was but one body orbiting the sun, they had a chance to say, “Wow! There is so much to creation than we thought! Whole other worlds! God is far greater than we expected!”
Instead they charged him with heresy and kept him under house arrest until he died.
When Newton worked out that Gravity and his own laws of motion were able to explain the movements of the planets instead of a god moving them, Newton even wrote how God could still fit into it. That in the absence of a material explanation for gravity, God may be responsible for it as well as sometimes, “resetting” the solar system to address a small instability issue he could not resolve at the time. The church could of thought, “What an amazing system! god has made the heavens predictable for us!”
But because this system did not rely on direct divine intervention, debate over this continued until the time of Napoleon.
Today, we have evolution. An explanation for the diversity of life and why it seems so well suited for all the environments and niches it fills. Based on the brilliant hypothesis of natural selection confirmed again and again not just by predictions of what would be seen in nature, but countless experiments on populations we select for traits in. Something that faces virtually no controversy among biologists.
To it’s credit, the church of old, the Catholic church has already bowed out of this battle. They are largely happy to accept evolution. And for good reason! Its elegance is undeniable. The way it connects us to all other life. The way our forms are a reflection of the more than three billion years of history our ancestors went through. It has so much more beauty than the idea that all life came into existence as it is now. Surely it would be a greater demonstration of the brilliance and creativity of a god than, “He breathed life into dirt.”
Yet about half the citizenry of the nation I live in deny it. What is important is not to discover how the world they believe God designed works. To uncover and understand all its elegance and how that could glorify God. What is important to them is that Genesis can be taken literally.
These were all discoveries Christianity could have embraced and used to become something more incredible. These were all missed opportunities for them. Why let these slip by?

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Unrelated Species Filling Similar Niches Sometimes Resemble One Another Because Of A Process Called?


a. convergent evolution
b. competition
c. mutation
d. co- evolution
e. natural selection
i have searched and searched for this answer and still nothing please help.((:

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As Organisms First Evolved, How Did Natural Selection Contribute To Biodiversity?


A:Organisms were able to find niches that were best suited to their needs.
B:The fittest organisms took advantage of new resources.
C:The strongest organisms beat out the competition for resources.
D;The least fit organisms occupied new niches.

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Will Someone Help Me Write An Essay?


in science we have to write a final essay describing life on earth. here are the directions:
Write an essay describing life on earth. Which are the first organisms to appear? How are later organisms able to evolve? In what order did they appear? How are they different? Please use the following words in your essay
Algae
Amphibian
Angiosperm
Annelid (Segmented worm)
Arthropod
Asexual reproduction
Bacteria
Biome
Bird
Cell
Charles Darwin
Chordate
Classification
Cnidarian
Cold Blooded
Competition
Consumer
Echinoderm
Environment
Evolution
Fish
Flatworm
Gene
Gymnosperm
Insect
Invertebrate
Mammal
Molecule
Mollusk
Moneran
Natural selection
Niche
Nonvascular plant
Nucleus
Ocean
Organ
Organism
Organ system
Population
Producer
Protist
Reptile
Roundworm
Sexual reproduction
Species
Tissue
Vascular plant
Vertebrate
Virus
Warm blooded

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Christians, How Many Of You Actually Know What Evolution Says?


I see stupid things like “If evolution is real, then why are there still monkey? Shouldn’t they have evolved into humans by now?” Really? For those of you who don’t know, back in the day, before Darwin, people believed in “The Chain of Creation” (or something along that line) it had humans at the top and all the lower animals below, so it was basically saying that humans were the pinnacle of creation. Well that’s not how evolution works. About 5 million of years ago humans and chimpanzees diverged (think, a fork in the road). We became what we are today because for us brain power was important, chimpanzees went where they are because that worked for them. Its what’s called a “Niche” its where an organism does best (like a carpenter or a painter, they do best in those jobs, so they stay there).
Also evolution does not say that an organism has to constantly change “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” an organism only changes if its niche changes or is destroyed, then-hopefully for the organism-a mutation will acer that will allow it to survive, if not then it will become extinct.
Now if you want to know all the details read “On the origin of species by way of natural selection” by Charles Darwin, or another book on the mechanics of evolution.

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Evolution Homework Help!?


What term is used to describe genetic exchange caused by migration of organisms or the gametes of organisms?
What do we call small changes in gene frequencies from generation to generation?
What is the type of selection that occurs between a male and female of a species regarding mate choice?
What evolutionary mechanism accounts for a change in a population’s allele frequency due to chance?
Name the type of natural selection that occurs when intra-specific competition is very intense, such that the members of a population must divide the niche and its resources among themselves.
Name the type of selection that occurs most often in unchanging conditions
Name the term that describes the physical differences between two sexes.

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