Thesis Statement: Humans Were Not Created By God

Name: Lyn

Part I:
Write a thesis statement (according to the guidelines I have given you in class) for an essay that answers the following question: What is the author trying to convince you to believe by reading this book, and what strategies does he/she use to persuade you?

Thesis statement: Human were not created by God. They developed or evolved from simpler organisms because physical evidences like limestone and fossils, scientific proof of DNA, and remaining animals such as finches and iguana that show environments effect.

Part II:
Give three categories of evidence to examples to back up your claim, with 2 examples for each category.

I. If the creation story of the Bible is true, mankind would only be about six thousand years old.

Dinosaur extinct 105 million years after Jurassic period. By the Eocene, 50 million years ago, the climate had grown cooler and drier, so animals like tapirs had appeared. In the last million years ago, during the extreme cold of the Pleistocene period, Mammoths were common and roamed throughout Western Europe.

II. If all human living today descended from the single couple, Adam and Eve, how do you explain the large differences between the peoples of the earth in such a short period of time?
Gregor Mendel showed that he could cross pollinate pea plants (mis their genes) and produce offspring with different characteristics. These pea plants have really short life cycle, for the descends of Adam and Eve to become as varied as humans are today. There would need to be some genetic variation introduced into the process. Also because humans have a longer life cycle than pea plants, it would take a much greater time than 6000 years to produce the changes we see today.

If the creation story is correct, then the offspring of Adam and Eve would have had to breed with each other and the next generation likewise. Today we know that inbreeding causes genetic abnormalities which shows that the Bible story is