Origin of Life

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 What is grit and why do you need it?

• Grit is as defined as perseverance and passion

for long term goals. Often times, many
talented people fail to realize their goals
simply due to lack of commitment and
continuous efforts.
What stage of human development are you currently in
and what are your main challenges/activities? What
would you consider the best time of life? Why?
• I am currently in the young-adult stage of my life, and my
primary in challenges in life are to identify my roles in the
society and discover purpose in my life. If I fail to
overcome these challenges, I will have a sense of
confusion in my role and run risk of failing to reach my
true potential and squander away years of my life.
However, if I overcome the challenges, I will emerge as a
responsible, self-confident and purpose-driven individual.
• I consider the life stage I am living to be the best time of
my life because my decisions and life choices will
ultimately shape my future life.
 Argue whether one's genetics or environment/upbringing is
more important. There is not an absolute true answer at the
moment. However, present your opinion and explain why your
opinion is important.
• I believe person’s genetics is more important to
live successful and fulfilling life. Even though
positive upbringing and pleasant environment
do affect one’s behavior, personality and
physical characteristics to some extent, more of
person’s nature is inherited from the parents.
For example, a child born to Philippine parents
is not likely to be a basketball player or so is a
healthy baby to a drug-using mother.
What is epigenetics and how can it influence
you and others?
• Epigenetics is a branch of genetics, whose
finding suggests genes can be modified based
on lifestyle and could be passed to next
generations. For example, a man who learned
a habit of self-control is likely to beget a child
who will have much better ability at self-
control than his/her peers. Also a child born to
a diabetic mother can similarly develop
diabetes if his/her diet includes junk foods.
 What is pro-activity? Explain why you should
have proactive habit in your life. Include a
personal example
• Proactivity means habit to be responsible for one’s
life. It is an understanding that everything that
happens to us happens to because of our past actions.
• By acquiring a proactive habits in our life, we will be
more prepared in life. For example, by planning and
preparing for classes, students will have higher chance
to do well in classes and ultimately graduate with
better grades, which in turn could boos their self-
confidence and help them in their career afterwards.
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Henry M. Morris was an
American young Earth
creationist, Christian
apologist, and engineer.
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Considered by many to
be "the father of
modern creation
science.
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The Scientific Case
Against Evolution

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Evolution is not happening now
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Transitional forms?

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Varieties in species, which is called micro evolution occur often.
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There many species of cats and dogs, but no “dats” or “cogs”.

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Evolutionary geneticists
experimented on fruit flies, rapidly
producing species, to produce a
new species. However, no truly new
species has ever been produced.
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 . . . it was and still is the case that,
with the exception of Dobzhansky's
claim about a new species of fruit fly,
the formation of a new species, by any
mechanism, has never been observed.

A current leading evolutionist, Jeffrey Schwartz, professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh

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 Ernst Mayr, longtime professor of
Biology of Harvard, who had alleged
that evolution is a "simple fact,"
nevertheless agrees that it is an
"historical science" for which "laws
and experiments are inappropriate
techniques"

Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

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Evolution Never Happened in the Past
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Given that evolution, according to Darwin, was in a continual state of motion . . . it
followed logically that the fossil record should be rife with examples of transitional
forms leading from the less to the more evolved. 18
 Transitional Creatures?
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There ought to be a
considerable number
of true transitional
structures preserved
in the fossils

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Man-made Experiment to Prove Life
Originating from Chemicals
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Miller put the whole thing in a ball,
gave it an electric charge, and
waited. He found that amino acids
and other fundamental complex
molecules were accumulating at the
bottom of the apparatus. His
discovery gave a huge boost to the
scientific investigation of the origin of
life. Indeed, for some time it seemed
like creation of life in a test tube was
within reach of experimental
science. Unfortunately, such
experiments have not progressed
much further than the original
prototype, leaving us with a sour
aftertaste from the primordial soup.

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Questions to the Origin of Life
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The evolutionist admits
that the Cambrian
explosion was the most
remarkable and
puzzling event in the
history of life.
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Transition from
spineless invertebrates
to the first back-boned
fishes is still shrouded
in mystery

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 All that paleoanthropologists have to show for more than 100 years of digging are remains from
fewer than 2000 of our ancestors. They have used this assortment of jawbones, teeth and fossilized
scraps, together with molecular evidence from living species, to piece together a line of human
descent going back 5 to 8 million years to the time when humans and chimpanzees diverged from a
common ancestor.

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Even with DNA sequence data, we have no direct access to the processes of
evolution, so objective reconstruction of the vanished past can be achieved
only by creative imagination.

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Since there is no real scientific evidence that evolution is occurring at present or ever occurred in the past, it
is reasonable to conclude that evolution is not a fact of science, as many claim. In fact, it is not even science at
all, but an arbitrary system built upon faith in universal naturalism.
The Equivocal Evidence from Genetics
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Evolution Could Never Happen at All
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1rst Law of Thermodynamics
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https://www.youtube.c
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2nd law of Thermodynamics (Law of Entropy)
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https://www.youtube.c ●
No exception to the second
om/watch?v=Cco0T7 law of thermodynamics has
cj-B4 ever been found -- not even
a tiny one. Like
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The total energy of an conservation of energy (the
isolated system "first law"), the existence of
remains constant a law so precise and so
independent of details of
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Conserved over time. models must have a logical
foundation that is
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Energy cannot be independent of the fact that
created nor destroyed matter is composed of
interacting particles.18

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Evolution Could Never Happen at All
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Evolution Could Never Happen at All
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The core of the humanistic philosophy is naturalism -- the proposition that
the natural world proceeds according to its own internal dynamics, without
divine or supernatural control or guidance, and that we human beings are
creations of that process. It is instructive to recall that the philosophers of
the early humanistic movement debated as to which term more adequately
described their position: humanism or naturalism. The two concepts are
complementary and inseparable.

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 Source

https://www.icr.org/home/resources/
resources_tracts_scientificcaseagainstevolution/

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 References
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins (New York, John Wiley, 1999), p. 300.
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Ernst Mayr, "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought," Scientific American (vol. 283, July 2000), p. 83.
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz, op. cit., p.89.
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Ibid.
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Leslie E. Orgel, "The Origin of Life on the Earth," Scientific American (vol. 271, October 1994), p. 78.
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Ibid., p. 83.
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Massimo Pigliucci, "Where Do We Come From?" Skeptical Inquirer (vol. 23, September/October 1999), p. 24.
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Stephen Jay Gould, "The Evolution of Life," chapter 1 in Evolution: Facts and Fallacies, ed. by J. William Schopf
(San Diego, CA., Academic Press, 1999), p. 9.
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J. O. Long, The Rise of Fishes (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995), p. 30.
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Niles Eldredge, The Pattern of Evolution (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1998), p. 157.
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Neil Shubin, "Evolutionary Cut and Paste," Nature (vol. 349, July 2, 1998), p.12.
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Colin Tudge, "Human Origins Revisited," New Scientist (vol. 146, May 20, 1995), p. 24.
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Roger Lewin, "Family Feud," New Scientist (vol. 157, January 24, 1998), p. 39.
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N. A. Takahata, "Genetic Perspective on the Origin and History of Humans," Annual Review of Ecology and
Systematics (vol. 26, 1995), p. 343.
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Lewin, op. cit., p. 36. 33
Watch the documentary and prepare to write
your own birth memories
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gAsdEUNUJY
1) Interview with your parents regarding your birth. (in case
your birth information, alternative choice is available)
Report of your birth and write reflective essay; at least
300 words)
2) For full grade, you can give short oral presentation. (no
ppt)
3) Criteria: Details in the birth story, Language, Speech

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