William Atkins
Friday, 23 January 2009 21:11
Science -
Biology
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Cecil M. Lewis, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma (OU, Norman), stated,
“One of the things that Darwin really did is put humans in the natural order of things.” [The Norman Transcript: “
OU to focus on Darwin in 2009”]
He added,
"Darwin put a lot of the pieces of the puzzle together…” that scientists had gathered over the years.
Lewis is spearheading a year-long celebration commemorating the birth of Darwin and this publication of “
Origin of Species.”
He commented that the events planned at the University of Oklahoma are the largest of its kind because of the overwhelming response from the different departments of learning at the educational institution.
He quipped—for a lack of a better term—that the events
“just evolved from there.”
If you don’t believe in evolution, or only believe it half-heartedly, it could help you understand better your views if you read about the theory of evolution, which is defined in
Wikipedia.com as:
”In biology, evolution is change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next.”
It is defined in the
Merriam-Webster online dictionary, according to the subject of this article, as:
“4 a: the historical development of a biological group (as a race or species) : PHYLOGENY b: a theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations ; also : the process described by this theory
6: a process in which the whole universe is a progression of interrelated phenomena”
Page four continues in a similar vein, now with religion.
