ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Microorganism, Drug Resistance, James Ussher
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Five aspects of modern revolution traits: adapt to environment, natural selection, sexual selection, variation already exist in population, survival of the fittest. According to genesis; adam and eve creation story. Everything was made in 6 days ( animals, men, technology) Origin of earth and human based on interpretation of the bible (defn: fifty of species) Arch bishop james usher (1650 ad); oct. 23 4004 bc, later addition 9 am. George cuvier, global and violent catastrophes" explain canyons and mountains ( defn: catastrophism) Reverend burnet (1681 ad) , slow erosion (wind, water, ice) Uniformitarian (defn uniformitarianism) process that happen today also happen in past. Lyell ( 1873 ad): 100,000 yrs the present is the key to the past . Buffon (1749 ad) : to learn about the earth, study the earth processes are known, natural and observable. Hutton (1788 ad): slow working, uniform and natural processes= hundreds of thousands of yrs. Reverend chalmer: usher was wrong not the bible.
