CREATION to EVOLUTION Diverse Views of How the Giraffe got its Long Neck (pictured is a Golden-crowned Kinglet, not a giraffe)

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CREATION to EVOLUTIONDiverse Views of How the
Giraffe got its Long Neck(pictured is a
Golden-crowned Kinglet, not a giraffe)

• AFACCT Conference
• January 9th, 2003
• Chesapeake College
• Presented by Dr. David Thorndill
  Professor of Biology
• CCBC Essex

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Evolutionism---Creationism

• 1. All species change and have descended from
  another species
• 2. All life began with one (or a few) original
  species
• 3. Organisms have been on earth for billions of
  years.

• 1. All species have undergone only minor changes
• 2. All species were instantaneously created
  fully formed
• 3. The Creation of all species took place only a
  few thousand years ago.

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MAIN FEATURES OFEVOLUTIONARY BIBLICAL
SYNTHESIS CREATIONISM

• Natural Selection (Darwin)
• All species have variations
• Few offspring survive to reproduce
• Some variations have a better chance of survival
• Mutation
• DNA replication makes rare mistakes that may
  produce altered proteins and new variations
• Speciation
• A new species may develop through mutation and
  selection

• Genesis
• Genesis is part of sacred texts in Islam,
  Judaism, Christianity (Bible)
• Some sects believe in literal interpretations
• Creation
• In six days God created the earth and all modern
  species (no speciation)
• Creation was a few thousand years ago (Bishop
  James Ussher calculated Creation was in 4004
  B.C.)

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THE JOURNEY to EVOLUTION

• Geological Uniformitarianism (old earth)
• James Hutton (1785) Theory of the Earth
• Charles Lyell (1830) Principles of Geology
• Alfred Wegener (1915) The Origin of Continents-
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck 1800-Theory of Acquired
  Characteristics
• Charles Darwin (1859) On the Origin of Species ,
  Theory of Natural Selection
• Modern Synthetic Evolutionary Theory (1920)
  synthesis of theories of Natural Selection and
  Mutations

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BIBLICAL CREATIONISM

• Literal interpretation of Genesis six day
  creation of the earth and all species by God
  great flood of Noah
• Bishop James Ussher (1630) calculated Creation
  took place in 4004 B.C.
• Georges Cuvier (early 1800s) proponent of
  geological catastrophism (young earth)
• Giraffe- God created the first giraffes 6000
  years ago. Todays giraffes have descended from
  them with few changes
• Scientific creationism-the view that says a
  scientific examination of data supports the idea
  that the earth and all species were created a few
  thousand years ago