Does Neo-Darwinian symthesis of descent with modification and modification by natural selection explain life?

Question

Does Neo-Darwinian symthesis of descent with modification and modification by natural selection adequately expalin the orgin and diversity of life? This is the whole question and I don't understand it, my science teacher is making us write at least 250 words about it and we have to support our position with scientific evidence...yep, I need some help to get started, I need to know what he is talking about.

Answer 1

No. Not in my opinion.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Check out wikipedia.

Answer 4

Neo-Darwinian evolution theory does not attempt to explain the origins of life...only a possible naturalistic explanation of how life evolved on earth...which is false in my opinion.

The scientific Law of Biogenesis states that all life comes from previous living things...it's a fundamental law of science that has been observed to be true in every instance and has never been disproved. For life to have begun on earth, it must have been created or arrived from another planet but that still does not answer how life began there if it can't on earth.



Micro-evolution that we can observe explains the diversity of life on earth but macro-evolution has not been directly observed ...I.E. life forms changing into completely different ones...fish to amphibians, reptiles to birds, pre-apes to humans, etc...these are assumptions based on micro-evolutionary adaptations and mutations which require many millions of years, would produce millions of transitional life forms and individual beneficial mutations to occur which the fossil record does not support nor does the occurrence of millions of beneficial mutations since they are so rare.

Answer 5

Google Evolution.  

And, puh-leez!  Don't mix this learning process up with religious dogma and expect the result to be 'explanatioin'.  In fact - cut any class where the teacher insists on wearing any sort of religious totem...You are there for an education, not salvation.  Am I right?

Answer 6

idk..good luck with it though...check out my question..

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Answer 7

Darwin only tried to explain evolution of forms, and when you approach a complex question like the meaning of life from a specialized viewpoint, you can't resolve the whole, but I don't think Darwin was actually trying to find life's meaning.

This is a better explanation, I think:

The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I?". This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness.

Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I?" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question.

The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in water conversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air.

When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness.

So the original "Who am I?" imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people.

But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience.

Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms), it enters the spiritual path and turns inward."

Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms." But individuality continues along this spiritual path, and there are as many ways to God as there are souls.

Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that proceeded it. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, "pran." There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness.

The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything. "The loving of God and the longing for His union," says Meher Baba "is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness."

The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom. Impressions go. Duality goes. The drops burst and again become the Ocean. God answers his question of "Who am I?" with "I am God." The Infinite has returned to the original starting point. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite. And he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which is the full awakening of his soul.

Answer 8

Well to asker the question, no. If you will notice that there is a missing link in the theory of the decention of the human race from primates. The missing link can not be explained or rationalized. Although I believe in science, I still cant negate the concept of Creation.

Answer 9

It does not explain the origin, just the diversity. It has been modified many times since the 30's and 40's.

http://www.talkorigins.org

Answer 10

Darwin thoery = natural selection

In english it means that in nature (on its own) natural selection takes place to ensure the survival of only the smartest and fitest becaue these will make the species better. If an animal had an advantge (ex: being a faster deer) then that animal will outrun the preditor while the slower one is killed (natural selection) Or also adaptaions if an animal is born with a birth "defect" that actually allows it to live through something (like a draught for a camel) that kills other animals then that animal will be able to pass on it's genes so that each future generation becomes better and better. Yes it is a good explanation in that manner because all the animals that had adaptaions or something (diversities) lived on to give birth to other animals creating more diverse species!

GOOD LUCK hope it helps

Answer 11

Macroevolution (speciation) has been observed directly hundreds of times.  We're observing a speciation event now, and it's been doing on for millennia.  Some speciation occurs in one generation, some occurs MUCH more slowly.  (Horses, donkeys and the common ancestor they're diverging from.)

Answer 12

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