BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Special Creation, Chapter 27, Tuberculosis
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1 evolution: the theory of evolution has replaced the theory of special creation in science, the theory of special creation asserts that each species is a unique type , created by. Answer: many scientists do believe in god. Answer: scientists learn about the world through experiment and observation. Answer: scientists don"t treat religious texts as literally true. Extinction: many fossils have been left by organisms that are no longer around. We say such organisms are extinct: extinction is one piece of evidence that species are changing. Transitional forms: when a species disappears from the fossil record, a similar species often appears. This often happens in the same geographic area: consistent with species evolving: changing through time, fig 24. 4. Vestigial traits: a vestigial trait is a structure that has no function, but is similar to functioning structures in related species, examples, fig.