ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Microevolution, Natural Selection, Mutation
13 Dec 2017
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Variety of interpretations on the beginnings of humanity. Humans are not viewed as being a part of the whole evolutionary scheme. Rather they are a unique and honoured creation of allah. Vatican allows for the ideas of speciation. Retains god as the only dna originator. Intelligent design: the theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity. No undirected processes such as natural selection explain the universe"s history and features. Scientists, anthropologists reject this idea and label itd as a religious, creationist movement. 45% of people do not believe in evolution. 37% believe that god created the world and they believe in evolution. 12% of americans actually believe that humans today evolved. Grand design/intelligent design:the theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity.
