University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Religion v. Science: Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a reflection of how politics and media have distorted the scientific term “theory” to fit comfortably into their definition of evolution. As a result, the evolutionary process and the teaching thereof have gone on to create a controversy in schools that seems to have no end. The purpose of the assignment is to highlight a current issue in education. Teaching evolution in science classrooms remains complex because teachers do not know how to approach such sensitive subject matter.

Religion v. Science: Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

“Science is a system of exploring the natural universe through data collected by observation, experimentation, and peer verification (Arkansas Curriculum Framework, http://arkedu.state.ar.us/curriculum/benchmarks.html#Science, 1999.)”. In science, an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena is called a theory and theories

voyage around the world via the Galapagos Islands near the coast of South America, he began to notice variations in some traits such as size and coloration of animals of the same species. Darwin read an essay by Thomas Malthus, a clergyman and economist. Malthus had correlated famine, disease, and war with population size. According to Malthus, humans tend to reproduce faster than food supplies, living space, and other resources can be sustained. The larger a population gets, the more people there are to reproduce in each generation. As the population gets larger, resources dwindle and the struggle to survive begins. People begin to starve, get sick, and thus engage in competition for the remaining resources (Raven, P.H. & Johnson, G.B., 1999). Malthus’ essay had laid the foundations for Darwin’s explanations of his observations of the population of 13 finch species distributed throughout the Islands.

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