ANTHRO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: East Los Angeles College, Carl Linnaeus, James Ussher
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Great chain of being: the underlying truth governing all things. Fixity of species = there is no evolution. Fixity of species, there is no evolution. Fixity of species (immutability of species): no evolution. Static view of nature unchanging, not dynamic. He reinforced the traditional judeochristian version of creationism. 17th century anglican archbishop of armagh in northern ireland. By counting the generations of the bible and adding them to modern history, he fixed the date of creation at october 23, 4004 b. c. This belief that the earth and life on it are only about 6000 years old fit neatly with the then prevalent theory of the "great chain of being. " 17th and 18th century european biology consisted mainly of the description of plants and animals as they are with virtually no attempt to explain how they got to be that way. I think therefore i am: this idea of consciousness had the most enduring traction.
