Biology Questions and Answers
Theory of Evolution.................................................................................................................
- What is the problem that
the theory of evolution and its
rival theories try to solve?
The problem evolution, or simply ethat the theory ofvolution, (^) and its
rival thhow the different living beories try to solve is to eeings that livexplain (^)
on earth have appeared.
- What is the main theory
opposed to evolution?
The main theory that opposes the
evolution how species emtheory on the explanation oerged (phylogenesis) isf (^)
fixism.
- What is fixism?
Fixism is the theory about the diversityof life on earth that affirms that the
current existent species were identical
to species oalready adapted to thf the past ane environmentd came out (^)
without undergoing changes.
Fixism opposes eevolutionism is thvolutionism sincee idea that current (^)
species emtransformationserged from gradual suffered by ancestral (^)
and extinct species.
The religious version of fixism is called
creatiocreationism. Many different forms onism are found in the mytholof (^) gy
of various religions. Modernized
religious ias a metaphorical wisdom and not asnterpreters teach creationism
opposed to evolutionism.
Furthermorevolution compatible e it is possiblwith creationisme to make (^)
by considperfection wering that God ould not create a woin His (^) rld so
full of imperfections and sufferings like
our world. Ocreationist belief thinkinne can maintain g that ththe (^) e world
God created is another much better
world or at least not the one that wesee while admitting the imperfection (^) of
life that wevolution.e see has emerged by
- In the scientific competition
against fixism what are the
main arguments that favor
evolutionism?
The main arguments in favor of
evolutionism arthe study of similaritiese: paleontolo among fossilsgical, from of (^)
different periods; othe existence of structures with samf compared anatomy,e
origin and function and of residual
organs, like reveal relationships amothe human appendix, thatng species; of (^)
compared embryology, similarities of
structures aamong embryos of nd developmental prelated species; ofrocesses
molecular biology, larger percentage of
similarof species having commo nucleotide sequences in the DNAn ancestors.
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