Darwin's Rib Summary

From the article Darwin’s Rib by Robert S. Root-Bernstein viewed the topic of evolution and religion together. With the article we were given to read, I saw a few things the article talked about that was in chapter 2. The similarities were with the topic of Lamarckian and Darwinian theories where Lamarckian talked about how traits such as muscle build up that is created from working hard would be transferred to their children. In the article a student talks about how males have a missing rib because of Adam, but find out that they don’t because why should one person who had something removed have their children including males and females have the rib missing. The reason this acquired characteristic isn’t passed down through generations, would
These allow a creature to adapt to its surroundings from the trait that they received, that trait that makes that species survive is the more favorable trait. Some traits people can see are from leaf bugs with a variation trait where a lot of them have different colors, texture, and even have holes in them so to create a camouflage. Another trait would be from reproduction, so take the elephant seals the largest on ends up mating more than the smaller ones because they show they can gain food and have the strength to do it that the female would want to pass down to their off-spring. Yet the one that is most used is heredity which is gained from the genetics of family, so an example of heredity would be a strain of diabetes. Each one of these are a part of evolution and how it can take place. Although in the article it views a bit of the idea of god. So why should both science and god be acknowledged, yet taught separately. I would say because science doesn’t have the purpose to force those around it to change their views or faith, that science should still be viewed with skepticism, and that science use evidence to show its