BIOL 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Chain Of Being, Teleology
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Charles darwin convinced the scientific world of evolution in the 19th century. Scientists say that today the universe is 10-20 billion years old, earth in 4. 5 billion years old, life arose 3. 5 billion years ago. Homo sapiens appeared 130 000 years ago. Assumes that earth is only several thousand years old. Geologists have showed that the earth has experienced immense changes and fossil records show the existence of many extinct forms that were here longer than thousands of years ago. God formed all species as they appear today, species have no hereditary relationship between them. Aristotle and plato proposed the hierarchy of life, simple inanimate objects at the bottom, humans at the very top. (cid:862)s(cid:272)ala (cid:374)aturae(cid:863) or (cid:862)great (cid:272)hai(cid:374) of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g(cid:863), u(cid:374)derstood i(cid:374) ter(cid:373)s of differe(cid:374)t ki(cid:374)ds of souls. Evolutionary theory states that all species have genealogical relationship, and they resemble a branching tree instead of a ladder or a pyramid.
