Many things have been said about life, and many explanations have been made to try and explain this \"life\" and how it came into existence. About 150 years ago a man by the name of Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in an attempt to explain the world from a scientific perspective. Cha...

Ever since the beginning of human life we have been exposed to our dependency of what is available around us. We have so conveniently made use of our environment of plants and animals. In our society today, humans have relied too much on animals that humans can find no other substitution. It is a...

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." (Albert Einstein, What I Believe) Science. I was sitting in the last row in biology class, pretending to take notes. I was trying to listen to the teacher, but what she was ...

Charles Robert Darwin is considered by many to be the father of modern biology. He introduced the theory of evolution and natural selection to a time in which science was based of the words on the Bible. He revolutionized the way life science was studied. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 18...

A century and a half ago, a man by the name of Charles Darwin went on a journey around the world. This trip sparked an idea that would permanently alter the future of biology, and in conjunction with a certain Alfred Wallace, led to the publication of one of the most controversial and earth-shaking ...

In The Best Interest Of Science In reading and reviewing Gould's essay on the morals of nature called "Nonmoral Nature, he gives us a brief overview of the age old religious philosophical point of view God has his reasons and we're on a need to know basis and we don't nee...

People have often wondered where, when and why the universe began and where we came from, Christians believe that god made the earth, all living things and the universe. Scientists try to explain when the universe began by the big bang theory and that everyone evolved from apes. There are two main...

Biblical Story: Fact or Fiction? Although many Christian people believe the story of creation as told in Genesis is the truth, science has come up with an alternative theory on how man came into existence. The word creation comes from the Greek word for science that is philosophically defined...

Stephen Jay Gould is professor of Geology at Harvard University, where his field of interest centers on the special evolutionary problems related to species of Bahamian snails – fortunately, that's not what his essay, Nonmoral Nature, is about. Gould has become well known for his essays o...

Charles Darwin had the greatest influence on the world of science by proving the evolution of living things. He had first noticed the similarities of plants and animals on the Galapagos Isles while embarking on a five-year cruise on the H.M.S Beagle. After noticing the similarities between the plant...

Fresh acad Evolution essay Should it be Taught? Humans came from apes! Is this statement true? No body knows, so why is this Evolution Theory being taught? The theory of Evolution dehumanizes homo sapiens. Humans are not categorized animals because a divine being places them apart from the ani...

The theory of evolution attempts to explain processes by which living organisms originated on earth and have been diversified and modified through changes in form and function Early explanations of these processes were attempted during the 18th century. The growth of natural history then led to an i...

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, a suburb of London, to a lower-middle-class family. He attended London University and the Royal College of Science where he studied zoology. One of his professors instilled in him a belief in social as well as biological evolution which Wells later c...

Oh No Not I.....I will Survive The Story of Charles Darwin By Alexi Hunter "We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle of existence". Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was an English naturalist whose theory of evolution is one of the greatest contributions ever made to...

Worms, tortoises, ostriches, and flies; what do these things have in common? They are all part of Charles Darwin's theories. Darwin spent five years aboard the HMS Beagle studying animal and plant life all over the world. This time, plus the many subsequent years he spent conversing with exp...

Many factors contribute to the idea of gradual speciation, but all fall under the same theory of evolution. Webster defines evolution as \"the theory that groups of organisms change drastically and smoothly with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection or chance, so that descendants ...

Language is fundamental to everything we do --some say it's what makes us "human." We know that all animals engage in some form of social communication. Humans, as well as other primates, share may advantages due to their intrinsic ability to communicate; however, the former has arrived at an unprec...

For some unknown reason, the belief that human beings came from monkeys has been a translation of the theory of evolution. This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the many myths regarding evolution. Evolution is a process that explains why life on Earth looks the way it does today. It provides ...

"...why it is that we and the universe exists. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason- for then we would know the mind of God." (Hawking 185). The debate between whether or not we were created by some Supreme Being or life itself happened by cha...

Evolution has been knocked down for centuries, because of formal religion. Creationists won't concede that evolution has been an on-going process, because it contradicts the Bible. There are many who believe both sides of the argument; that is God did create the heavens and earth, and evolution ha...

Creation or Evolution? Where did we come from? Did God create our incredible world in six days, and do we all descend from Adam and Eve? Or was the universe created billions of years ago, possibly by a "Big Bang", with all living things evolving from a single organism? These questions hav...

Human Evolution Today's human being is the product of millions of years of trial and error through the process of evolution. Charles Darwin was the first to bring fourth the idea of evolution. His theory involved the instance of natural selection. However he could not explain exactly how ...

Social Darwinism History Social Darwinism and its use to Justify Business Practices of the 19th and 20th century. Thesis: The need for a justification of enormous wealth of a few and an unimaginable poverty of millions was, as many tend to believe, fulfilled by the emergence of a the...

The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey WrightIntroductionIn the recent bestseller, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett argues that the truly "dangerous" aspect of the Darwinian revolution was not the notion that species evolve: Lamarck, Owen, and Darwin's grandfather Era...

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, a suburb of London, to a lower-middle-class family. He attended London University and the Royal College of Science where he studied zoology. One of his professors instilled in him a belief in social as well as biological evolution which Wells later cit...