Pros And Cons Of Macroevolution

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Instructors in public schools all over the country currently teach macroevolution (the change of one species to another through natural selection over a long period of time)as the leading theory for the variety of species on Earth, including human life. Everyone who has ever sat in a high school biology class has heard that humans have evolved over time from a single cell to more complex organisms such as apes to our current state of humans. There is much controversy on the validity of the macroevolution theory which has numerous evidentiary shortcomings. Unlike microevolution (successive changes within a species due to natural selection) which has been easily proven through examinations of bacteria, macroevolution is a best-guess science. …show more content…

Judges concluded in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District that intelligent design was in violation of the establishment of religion clause in the first amendment. Intelligent design supposedly violates “centuries-old science ground rules by invoking and permitting supernatural causation”. Frank Turek and Norman Geisler disagree stating that everything either has a natural cause or intelligent cause and since a natural cause for macroevolution is not supported by the scientific evidence an intelligent cause is the only other option. Researchers have also found that students examining multiple perspectives of an argument and making a conclusion from their research enhance the learning process in classrooms. The Illinois Science Standards agree with this thought and ensure students are able to “construct an explanation based on valid and reliable evidence obtained from a variety of sources”. The literature reviewed seems to suggest that both students should examine both theories (intelligent design and macroevolution) in order to construct an explanation to how the variety of organisms have

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