Change over Time
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Change over time
There are so many hypotheses and theories on how humans began. Different cultures, different religions believe in different ways of the Earth being created. However opinion of the big part of population changed when such studies as archeology , paleontology , anthropology gave well-founded evidences. Science give us proof in what we can see, hear, touch, in another way many people still believe that God played the main role in the creation of the Universe. Others can tell hilarious theories about UFO and aliens who brought us here. In any case any theory need evidences so it would be confirmed . People can believe in what they want to believe , but discovering our world can change our view on our life and whole humankind .
Population on our planet is 7 billion people, and 84% of it believe in God. In the past, people could believe just in one theory of their existing , there wasn’t any other evidences and thoughts. 4200 religion s on the Earth and in every their Gods, their stories, their holy books. In Greek mythology Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into his clay figure.(
Different species came from different parts of his body.(
Through time people got more questions and wanted explanations. Even religious people started to doubt in only one way of life creating. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , a French scientist and naturalist , stressed two main principles in his biological work : first one was about changes caused by environment and second says that life was structured in an orderly manner and that many different parts of all bodies make it possible for the organic movements of animals.He wasn’t the first who thought about it,nonetheless he was first who developed a theory. Lamark outlined his principles in 1800 on this Floral lecture. The main conception of his principles that organisms bear of changes for adapting themselves to environment and hard or comfortable conditions , thus the characters acquired are passed on to the next generation. Unfortunately his theory was rejected because it didn’t explain many things of life . Acquired characteristics didn’t have a genetic basis, and it couldn’t predict that organisms would become complexer and and simple organisms disappeared. In this place new evolution theory by Charles Darwin came. And it can account for the continued presence of simple organisms.
Darwinism is the theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin, states that all living and nonliving organisms develop through natural