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first animals lived in water, during a wet phase of the Earth's past, and that the first land-dwelling ancestors of mankind must have been born in water, and only spent part of their life on land
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denies the fixity of biological species and Taoist philosophers speculated that species had developed differing attributes in response to differing environments
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life was created by God during a single week
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means seeds everywhere. It suggests that life could have
existed on another planet and moved to Earth by meteorites, comets etc -
living organisms that appeared on Earth arose
from inorganic matter in a time when the chemical environment and conditions of the
planet were very different from today’s conditions. -
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Lamarck believed that the modifications an organism acquires during its
lifetime are passed to its offspring (inheritance of acquired characteristics) -
simple living organisms could come into being by spontaneous generation, this means that they could come from dust, mud, etc
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Usher fixed the date of creation at October 23, 4004 B.C; Dr. Charles Lightfoot of Cambridge University in England proclaimed that the time of creation was 9:00 A.M. on October 23, 4004 B.C.
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theory of natural selection:
Survival in the struggle for existence is not random, but depends
in part on the hereditary constitution of the surviving individuals. Those individuals
whose inherited characteristics fit them best to their environment are likely to leave
more offspring than less fit individuals. -
Paris Academy of Sciences offered a prize for
any experiments that would help resolve the conflict on spontaneous generation. 1864 by
Louis Pasteur, as he published the results of an experiment where he proved that
microorganisms did not arise by spontaneous generation -
modern synthesis or neo-Darwinism:
the natural selection (which is seen through differential reproduction), that acts upon genetic variations (which are the outcome of mutations or sexual recombination) which appear among the members of a population.
