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Category: Week 11: Darwin

Science & Reason – Darwin Style

November 16, 2018 Shayne Utter

Despite his inability to prove evolution through natural selection, Darwin presented multiple thought provoking points to support what he argued…

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Darwin Slumwins

November 7, 2018 Owen Pendergast

Darwin argued that through natural selection, there is proof of evolution. Darwin pointed out the appearance of the natural selection…

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Natural Selection: Will it Ever be Proved?

Ayla Johnsen 3 Comments

Charles Darwin’s argument of natural selection, although can’t be completely proved, has many great points that can be proof that…

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week 11

Ryan Smart

Darwin argues that “all life on earth is connected and related to each other” and also that “modifications of populations…

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Evolutionary Origins

Cole Satrom

Darwin suffered from the same fate that many scientist of his era experienced. He presented a new theory to science…

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Will the study of natural history become!

Alexia Gonzales

Darwin follows the consilience of induction when explaining his theory. His main argument is that it is the quantity and…

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a thing about evolution or something… idk

John Hanley

Darwin, in his explanation for his theory, discussed a number of characteristics of life and reproduction that were all but…

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Darwin

Cameron Graves

Although Darwin often noted in this chapter that most scientists during his time disagreed with his theory of evolution through natural selection he…

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Don’t Worry Darwin, We Believe You Now

Erica Dobrowski

Darwin argues that he is unable to prove natural selection because of the imperfections of geology and past epochs. His…

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Darwin’s Arsenal of Evidence and Theories

November 6, 2018 Logan Bonney

In his last chapter Darwin had many different pieces of evidence to support his claim. He pointed out that fossils…

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Adapt, Improvise, Overcome

Carly Zell

Darwin uses many different examples to argue in favor of evolution through natural selection. While he admits that there are…

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Darrwin.

Colby Darr

Darwin was the leading mind of his time and the father of modern evolutionary theory. But for someone to make…

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Darwinism

Ben Wallace 1 Comment

One of the first arguments given by Darwin, he talks about how different females of sterility crossed species and then…

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Can Deism and Darwin agree?

Roman Oliman

I will not lie and tell you that I completely understood this week’s reading. I first learned to read in…

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Darweek

November 5, 2018 Sydney Jones

Darwin argues that natural selection is correct in a variety of ways, even though he couldn’t definitely prove it. He…

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Variety is the spice of life

Audrey Scott 4 Comments

Darwin starts off his argument by beginning with the idea of change over time, and the irrefutable geological evidence. He…

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Darwin Thinking on the Better Side of things

Cody Coffin 3 Comments

Darwin explains the idea of there being multiple varieties of species and how each variety weeded out each other variety.…

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Something Witty About Darwin That I’m Too Tired To Come Up With

Hunter Strobel 4 Comments

Initially Darwin outlined the inevitable challenges to his theory, and did so with an open mind, always freely admitting that…

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Darwin’s Defense of Evolution

Jason Pichette 2 Comments

Ahead of his time and pushing an unpopular theory, Charles Darwin argues for the theory of evolution in The Origin…

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Adapt or Die

Mandy Hawkins 7 Comments

Darwin uses several examples in his argument of evolution through natural selection. Some of his arguments, which he lists on…

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Creation & Variation: Mutually Exclusive?

Hilary Rosa 3 Comments

Darwin observed many phenomena that culminated in his theory of evolution. Among these phenomena were commonalities in the growth and…

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Migration Made Me Do It

Amanda Larson 2 Comments

Darwin brings up many arguments for evolution. One of the major ones is found in the bodies of humans and…

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Darwinistic Approach

Rachel Bragg 2 Comments

Darwin goes over a couple different arguments in the last paragraph of the theory of evolution, the biggest and more…

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Revolutionary Theory

Ben Schwartz 2 Comments

In the beginning, Darwin’s theory was never bulletproof. He lacked perhaps the most important factor of evolution, a model for…

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It’s evolutionary my dear Watson

Kendra Fischer 2 Comments

Darwin states that his theory had gaps but nonetheless the argument still is solid and heavily based in evidence  (Darwin,…

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From The Ocean To The Trees: A Journey

Emily OBrien 2 Comments

In Darwin’s last chapter “Recapitulation and Conclusion”, he poses several arguments to convince his readers of the role of evolution…

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Natural Selection

Peyton McElroy 1 Comment

There are a couple of important points Darwin makes when considering his own argument of evolution through natural selection. Things…

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Beating the Naysayers to the Punch

Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

In the last chapter of his major work, Darwin brought up a few arguments or defenses of his new theory…

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An Entangled Bank of Life

Ty Gentry 2 Comments

Darwin argues his theory through several means. He addresses the geographical distribution of species, the lack of “intermediate varieties”, the…

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Darwin-er Winner, Chicken Dinner.

Natalie Carlson 2 Comments

Darwin’s final arguments, meant to summarize his view and convince his readers, began with a few statements that he thinks…

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Evolution Confusion

Catherine Vejvoda 2 Comments

Before Darwin could convince his readers of evolution through natural selection, he had to acknowledge the reasons that people did…

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Darwin’s Pushback

Ellie Polk

In Darwin’s Recapitulation and conclusion, he points to phenomena in nature that can simply not be explained by any theory…

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Protected: Did Dar-win?

Anna

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Darwin’s Evolution

Madelyn Hillis 1 Comment

Darwin’s theory of evolution is one that most people, especially in scientific fields, believe to hold the most validity and…

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All living things have connection

Linnea Fristam 1 Comment

“Natura no facit saltum”, in English; natural selection. This is the theory that Darwin couldn’t definitely prove was the answer…

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Natural Selection: It’s Happening Now

Heather Schaffnit

Darwin used the example of agriculture, saying that the animals we captured and domesticated over several centuries experienced an exposure…

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For Just $18.59, You Can Evolve To

Dexter Jarrett 1 Comment

One argument Charles Darwin made for evolution through natural selection was how geology has changed over the many years of…

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Missing Links

Diana Lester

Darwin argued that natural selection was the process for how evolution works. The only issue that he had was that…

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Dar-Winning Evolution

Marika Feduschak 1 Comment

Darwin begins his argument by pointing out that although the geologic record may seem to be provincially lacking evidence to…

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Confused, but Convinced

J. Beckett Sweeney 2 Comments

Darwin’s first point is about sterility. Crossing two species can often create an offspring, but that offspring will more than…

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Natural Selection

Hali Kapperud

In Darwin’s last chapter “Recap and Conclusion,” he argues that the principles behind his theory of evolution – that variation…

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From Beagles to Barnacles: Darwin’s Theory of Descent With Modification

Logan Vining 1 Comment

Charles Darwin attempts to prove his arguments on descent with modification using inductive reasoning, meaning that based on his observations…

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Evolution

Bryce Whited 1 Comment

Darwin believed that species evolved through the process of natural selection. Though he couldn’t prove this directly, he still defended his…

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To be related, or not to be related.

Nick Leach 1 Comment

Darwin used a few different arguments to back up his idea of evolution through natural selection. One of the pieces…

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Darwin post

Jose Alarcon Cascales

In this last chapter, Charles Darwin mentions some reasons why he considers the natural selection as something available to understand…

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Dar Wins

Sean Jungst 1 Comment

Darwin points out that with the changing environments, domesticated animals have varied, and that this same variance can be found…

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How Animals DarWin Natural Resources

Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

Although Darwin could not definitively prove his theory of evolution through natural selection, you could described it as an argument…

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Evolution!

Sophie Black

Two arguments that Darwin imposed to try and persuade people to believe his theory of evolution were the ideas regarding…

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Dawin and the theory of Slow Cooking.

William Green

Though Darwin lays out a number of explanations, he is the first to point out there are many gaps in…

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Follow the Clues

Mia Thomas

One of Darwin’s arguments to convince his readers of his theory was to appeal to some of their previous ideas…

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Evolution Evolved

John Jones

Charles Darwin presents a number of relatively solid arguments to attempt to provide evidence for his theories of natural selection…

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Kalon et Agathon: Scientific Theory in the Face of Reality

Mary Hill Young

HST 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 11/5/18   Kalon et Agathon     Darwin’s…

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The Theory of Change and Mutation is Quiet Adaptable

Anthony Johnson

I personally find it difficult to grasp the whole concept of evolution for similar reasons that Darwin covered, for example, there are several…

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Natural Selection… Talk About Being Picky!

Colleen May 1 Comment

In Darwin’s “Recap and Conclusion” chapter, he employs several arguments in order to persuade the world of his theory of…

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Darwin’s Descent with Modification

Audrey Schied 1 Comment

One of the arguments Darwin uses to convince his readers of natural selection is the similarities of species in separate…

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Natural Born Selection

Sage McCleary 1 Comment

1.Darwin had many arguments about natural selection. Some very convincing, others not so much. His studies that he made were…

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Survival of the Fittest

Connor Ludwig 1 Comment

It is true that Darwin cannot completely prove evolution to be 100% true, but he does make many very good…

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Natural Selection at its Finest

Seamus Andersen

Darwin was a very smart person and when he said that evolution was caused in part through natural selection I…

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Slow and Steady

Chance Ronning

One of Darwin’s major points is that a non-sterile offspring cannot be produced by anything other than two parents of…

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Entangled Bank

Tyler Ewald

Variations arise from the variables in which they are positioned. That’s what life comes down to. Darwin knew the world is…

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Does everything Evolve?

Will Werner

Charles Darwin believed that the most likely cause of evolution throughout the course of history was natural selection.  He was…

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It’s Charles Darwin. Enough Said.

Madalyn Alderman

Personally, I love Darwin. He is absolutely freaking the coolest. The point of science from my understanding is never really…

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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

Chisum Green

Though there wasn’t the direct proof linking evolution and natural selection Darwin uses the process of observing surroundings and finding…

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Not to be too forward, but you should probably be convinced of evolution at this point

Noah Hense 1 Comment

While all of his arguments in the last chapter of his book are convincing, the ones that I think are…

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Vote For Darwin

Patrick Phattharaampornchai 1 Comment

Charles Darwin believed that all animals have descended from at most four or five common ancestors (Darwin p. 503).  Science…

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“I Like Turtles”

Tyler Trudnowski 1 Comment

Darwin argues for evolution over arbitrary creation from a higher being by stating that all living organisms on Earth, including…

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Darwin

Nicole Eifert

Darwin argued that evolution must be correct by stating that we must have all had a common ancestor somewhere along…

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Dawin on a Mission

Wyatt Ayers

Darwin used a few examples in his writings such as animals changing to their environment, physical characteristics, and even losing…

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Our Ideas Are Always Evolving

Nick Lemon

  The most difficult aspect of proving the Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection is that all species are still…

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The Revolution of Evolution

Conner Cross

To help convince readers of his theory of natural selection, Darwin used a multitude of arguments. He began by addressing…

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Creation from Variation

Cassie Andrews

Darwin believed that all species originated with one species. He says that natural selection exists largely based on the belief…

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Quit “Monkey”ing Around and Get to the Point

Tyler Patrick

Darwin gives a lot of evidence towards his evolutionary theory in his conclusion. One thing that stood out to me…

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Evolve or Go Instinct

Kaylor Althoff

Darwin definitely had many ideas on how to convince the readers about how evolution through natural selection was the correct…

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Darwin and Natural Selection

Taylor Koth

In Darwin’s “Recap and Conclusion” chapter, Darwin recaps the main points of his publication, mainly his arguments for natural selection.…

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Steve Quinn

Natural selection theory is one of Darwin’s prime arguments, in that a species will accumulate traits with each passing generation…

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On “On the Origin of Species”

Nathan Rubino

Throughout history, there have been a number of scientists that have generated ground-breaking–but at the same time, very polarizing ideas…

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The Struggle of Convincing People Evolution Exists

Cameron Durfee

This chapter we read from Darwin came as the final concluding chapter of his work The Origin of Species. In…

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All Natural

John Stoppler

In Darwin’s last chapter in the Origin of Species, he summarizes his arguments about why we should believe in evolution…

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early bird gets the worm

Fritz Arnold

Darwin had many arguments on why his theory was correct, but gaps were also present. A few of the principles…

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Natural Selection 101

Spencer Felice

Darwin argued that through natural selection the process of evolution took place. He did this through the evidence that since…

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Interconnected Systems Through Time

Garrett Hartley

In Darwin’s “Recapitulation and Conclusion” he does a very thorough job at revisiting his arguments for evolution through natural selection…

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Darwin thoughts

Alexis Thull

Darwin’s first argument to convince his readers of evolution is that we use what we see on the outside to…

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Darwin is my Homeboy

Tyler Krueger

Darwin used a vast collection of information and ideas to convince people of natural selection. Some of those reasons include:…

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Damn Darwin, back at it again with the Theory of Natural Selection!

Daniel Alexander

Darwin first presents his argument that the nearly universal sterility of species when crossed and the nearly universal fertility of…

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Natural selection…

November 4, 2018 Mandy Hawkins

Darwin uses several examples in his argument of evolution through natural selection. Some of his arguments, which he lists on…

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Dar for the Win

Jacob Kelley

Charles Darwin was unable to definitively prove evolution through natural selection but it was his belief and he had many…

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Changing Ideas

Mckinley Paine 1 Comment

Darwin uses some excellent arguments to attempt people of his theory of natural selection. One of the greatest examples in…

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Darwin’s Wins

Blaze Wiseman 1 Comment

The most interesting argument that Darwin made in my opinion was when are stated that we see much more variability…

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Darwin, Finches, and Mules

Patrick Wolff 1 Comment

Darwin argued that his theory of natural selection and by extension, evolution, was correct through several points. The first point…

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Bryce Dawkins Blog Post Week 11

Bryce Dawkins 1 Comment

Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: The great Darwin speaks his truths on our evolution or on the evolution of organic beings…

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