Good morning everyone, I would first like to start by welcoming and thanking you all for attending my presentation. I hope that I wont be too boring for you, and if any of you may have some questions I would be more than happy to answer them at the end.
When the superior scientist Charles Darwin published "the origin of species" he was accused of being an atheist and attempting to play god. Yet, one million copies were sold by the first day. It's fascinating how the human brain yearns information, regardless. Agree with it or not people tend to seek data continually, its in out nature, and that's what has brought us to the modern world we know of today. If the ancients weren't curious about the stars, moon and planets, do you think that space programs would have ever been set up? .
"Curiosity killed the cat", an idiom we use in the present day, can easily apply to humans. Humans" curiosity is eventually going to get the better of us and that's what I"m here to talk about. Despite this, I would foremost like to make one thing clear: .
Contrary to what most of you may think, Charles Darwin never claimed that the human race descended from apes. I"m sure you've all heard the phrase: "survival of the fittest". Well, Darwin's theory actually stated that a species would adapt, or rather evolve in order to survive in its environment, hence the term "survival of the fittest". He noticed on his round the world journey aboard the HMS Beagle, that the same species of birds, on adjacent islands, had differently shaped beaks, in order to be able to eat certain insects. This species was able to adapt to its changing environments through means of genetic inheritance. Perhaps a much better example of biological evolution is the duck-billed platypus. An egg-laying mammal, with the body and tail of a beaver, a duck-like beak and the webbed feet of a frog! Now if that's not evolution, what is? .
Anyway, I"m not her discuss biological evolution, because you see I have a theory, or prediction of my own.
