英美报刊PPTLecture 5.pptxVIP

Unit TwoUnited States (Ⅰ);Text Analysis;Part 1: introducing ID ;Charles Darwin The Theory of Evolution;Notice that Darwinism is not synonymous with Evolution, but rather with evolution by natural selection; Modern biology suggests a number of other mechanisms involved in evolution which were unknown to Darwin, such as genetic drift. The phrase “survival of the fittest” was taken to be emblematic of Darwinism.;The scientific community and much of the general public came to accept evolution as a fact in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In recognition of Darwins pre-eminence as a scientist, he was one of only five nineteenth-century non-royal personages from the United Kingdom to be honored by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.;;Part 2: ID is a subtler assault compared with …? ;Part 3: What holes, according to ID, are there in Darwin’s theory?;Part 4: Why biologists are reluctant to fight back? ;Part 5: Education controversy:What shall be taught ;The Holy Bible Genesis;The Book of Genesis ;In the Old Testament, the making of the land and of the sea and of the trees and the flowers and the birds and of man and woman was vaguely attributed to God, the Creator.