Evolution

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My name is Garrett Powell and I go to Olathe north high school. I’m 6 foot 3 and I enjoy many different sports including soccer, swimming, and karate. I love animals and I enjoy taking care of them. I personally have way too many cats and 4 dogs along with 1 jungle carpet python and 1 bearded dragon and finally 2 birds. To pass the time I play video games and hang with friends. so now that i have told you will you go away.

The earth has been around for 4.2 billion years and humans have only been around for .0002 percent of that time. On that kind of scale we have been here for a blink of an eye, so how do we know what the earth looked like and how all the animals came to be. Well there are currently two explanations for that subject. One is evolution, the idea that we all evolved into what we are today or the other idea to put it simply , God. for years now evolution has been a subject of great turmoil between both the scientific community and the religious community. For years now many people never really understood why they fought over this subject so diligently. This paper should explain what evolution is and how it came to be such a controversial topic. Evolution is the change in traits of one species that are passed down through generations witch cause the species to change. These traits are the direct result of genes that were passed down from one generation to the next. When a mutation in the genes becomes more common and the others it is considered evolution. These mutations can happen randomly through genetic drift or non-randomly through natural selection. Some cases of evolution Charles Darwin’s finches. Each type of finch that went to a different area developed deferent beaks to better suit there environment. This does not mean that they moved and there beaks changed, that is not evolution. This change took several generations of finches before it was perfected.
Another example of evolution is the horse. It is one of the few animals that we actually have the full evolutionary history on. as you can see in the diagram the horse took millions of years to evolve. This shows how it took generations for small changes to take place. The horse for instance had its feet change little by little and it grew in size till it became what it is today. Scientist know this because all of the stages of the horse were preserved in fossil.
So far this doesn’t sound like such a controversial topic. But this explains it all, according to scientists and this data they believe we should have evolved from monkeys over millions of years of evolution. This is in direct opposition of the bible and the Christian and almost any other religions beliefs. as you can see from the picture this is what scientist think happened. This razes many questions on both sides. For instance if we evolved from monkeys then that just nullifies a lot of things that happened in the bible, or if you’re a strong believer in the bible this cannot be true. According to the bible we are direct descendants’ of Adam and eve not monkeys. This angered many religious leaders, and they defended themselves saying that god is absolute. And now for years they have been striking at each other relentlessly. Then the topic of what to teach in schools came up witch fired them both up. They both wanted there subject to be taught in school and wanted the other to banned from schools. This was a heated debate for quite some time before the schools decided to teach both but they couldn’t say witch one is right or wrong.