Part One: A new and effective way to begin a demonstration when in a situation of explaining your view of Evo vs. Design. It is one that is relate-able and seemingly harmless. In particular, explaining the miracle of your (our) own existence is incredibly relevant, but most of all my favorite example in all this deals with the binary code, or four letter alphabet of the human genome. This is what finally, after all these years got me interested in Biology.
Part Two: Why? That is the question, the universal question for all of man-kind. The delving into the justification of man inventing religion, especially and potentially at the Neanderthal level, although, I realize that my prior wording is part of a misconception which we'll delve into the next paragraph. I DO NOT disagree with the anyone DECLARING that one scientist is "wrong", without stating "in my opinion" especially when their isn't sufficient evidence suggesting so, and especially when that figure is so highly accomplished. I am speaking of the author declaring that "Edelman rightly discounts Freud's psychodynamic theory". That notion is furthered in a quote from Gould who states that sociobiology or evolutionary psychology justifies acts such as murder, rape, etc. No, it does not! It aides in helping us to understand "why" it occurs. To make such a claim that Freud is wrong based on these claims is no better than a fundamentalist Christian denying evolution because it interferes with their belief in God! Freudian psychology, if taken into account, would solve many our issues in society including those named injustices. However, political correctness lives on!
Part three: This portion translates the blueprint that is DNA, which also serves as a true "Book of the Dead". Much of our history is revealed, as well as our more distant ancestry. It is here that archeology, anthropology and the work of Biological DNA work together in spelling out more of our history. Misconceptions are brought to attention and spelled out correctly such as the fact that we did not evolve "from" chimps, but we do share a common ancestor. Another interesting fact being that some evidence may exist suggesting that Neanderthal might have believed in the "after life".
-Jeremy Watkins (M.G.)
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