Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Evolutionism vs Creationism

The basics of Creationism

The basics of

Evolution

  • Whales give live birth
  • They feed milk to their young
  • They are warm blooded
  • They have no gills, they breathe with two fully developed lungs through blowholes
  • A whale's Blowhole has 2 nasal passages
  • many whales have hair like land mammals
  • whales have arm, hand, wrist, and finger bones
  • Whales have a pair of leg bones where hind legs should be

This species shows to be a transition from land mammal to aquatic mammal.

What do they mean?

Evolution:

Creationism/Creation Science

the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.

  • The process by which different kinds of living

organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history

of the earth.

  • The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.

Proofs Continued

Embryology and Development

Comparative Anatomy: Whales as Example

human

mouse

dolphin

Both species start out with arm buds and leg buds.

Both species have nostrils early on, in the dolphin it migrates to the top of the head and fuse together to become a blowhole.

DNA

  • Whales' closest DNA relation is to Hippos

Fossil Record

Basilosaurid whale

coyote

land mammal

killer whale

aquatic mammal

  • The ancient walking whales shared the same leg bone as hippos
  • Hippos birth and nurse underwater
  • Both have multi-chamber stomachs, which is very rare in meat eating mammals like Whales
  • Both grow very little whisker like hairs along the head and chin
  • Both have internal testicles

transition

Most land mammals have nasal passages at the end of the

snout, like this coyote skull. Obviously whales didn't come from coyotes, but it is highly likely they did descend from a similar land mammal.

Here we have the leg bones I mentioned earlier.

Maiacetus

Considered a whale but could walk on land.

Timeline of change

there were many other transitional 'walking whales'

Evolutionism vs Creationism

There really isn't much of a contest. Evolution currently has more evidence just from looking at one species, imagine all we could discover from the 8 Million total species alive today!

  • A change in traits over large period of time through sexual reproduction.
  • Species that do not benefit from mutations often die out
  • 95% of scientists support evolution.

Now for the Evidence

  • Life comes from specific acts of divinity
  • every species was created separately
  • Literalists believe that evolution cannot account for diversity on earth
  • Beliefs based on Genesis
  • 4/10 Americans support this theory.
  • Some religious individuals may believe in evolution but still pick and choose what parts of the bible they identify with (theistic evolution)
  • *Comparative anatomy
  • *Embryology and Development
  • *Fossil Record
  • *DNA Comparison

Proof of Creation

  • Evolution has yet to be observed, as by it's very nature we would not notice it happening
  • Mankind is said to reflect God's image

It was difficult to find anything that didn't

misuse or misunderstand the science that

went into evolution.

Many proofs of creationism I found missed the context of evolution entirely. The best example of this was using the intelligent design the man body has that must have been made by a 'divine creator'. What these people don't realize is:

  • Species evolve based on what works every time.
  • Evolution comes from genetic oddities that benefit the species depending on surroundings.
  • Species cannot evolve in a way that DOES NOT benefit them, because that branch will not have enough offspring to continue- they will die off because they are ill suited to their environment.

Creation is based on Faith

Creationism comes from a complete sense of trust and faith the written word handed down for thousands of years.

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi