Nathan Munoz History 101 Prof. Smith-Trafzer 24 April 2014 Movie Paper The movie “Inherit the Wind” was a film that was originally released in 1960, however it has been remade several times since that time. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. It is based on the true story of John “Monkey” Scope’s trial of being convicted of teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in a high school, even though it was illegal in the state of Tennessee. The story
Words: 701 - Pages: 3
Do we value human life? is the continuation of life important or the establishment of our thoughts on every one more important? This is a question any sane mind is probably asking themselves and are struggling to find solutions to the RELIGION/CULTURE wars that are being fought. Do you think if we can find the problem, the root problem in terms of behavioral patterns and evolution is found, we can some how move on to the next conflict? i think so.......for me human's with their ability to think
Words: 271 - Pages: 2
Developed in the 1950’s through to the 1970’s, plate tectonics is the scientific theory first proposed and elaborated by scientist, Alfred Wegener in 1912. The theory explains that the lithosphere is divided up into multiple plates that are moving constantly. (Cloos, 2018). This theory is regularly being adapted and developed as it has been through the past 400 years by several scientists. At first scientists, including Wegener only compiled a small amount of evidence supporting this theory. However
Words: 778 - Pages: 4
Explain Hume’s criticisms of the teleological argument. (25) St. Thomas Aquinas’s teleological argument seeks to prove, a posteriori, the existence of an intelligent God by arguing that the world is full of inanimate, non-intelligent natural bodies which function in order, in an intelligent way. He said that for inanimate bodies to do this, they require an intelligent being to bring this action about. This being is God. The 18th-century philosopher David Hume wrote a book named Dialogues Concerning
Words: 774 - Pages: 4
In 1976, an idea that would eventually become a worldwide cultural phenomenon was conceived. Interestingly, the term “meme” was coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins before the invention of the internet, and was defined as “ideas that guide human behavior.” The word was derived from the greek mimema (that which is imitated) which Dawkins shortened to rhyme with the word gene (Mondschein). Initially, it was used in evolutionary biology to compare the passing of genes onto next generations to
Words: 1375 - Pages: 6
“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away- by standing still” (Lawrence and Lee 67). The book, Inherit the Wind written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, takes place in a small town in the heart of Tennessee, Hillsboro, and the Bible Belt in the 1920s. The play, converted to a novel, covers an early case of evolution v. religion in the South. Thinking the teachings of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is interesting, a young teacher, Bertram Cates, teaches the theory to all of
Words: 748 - Pages: 3
Reminiscent of ethnology, evolutionary psychology roughly states that the mind is the way that it is because of adaptions to the environment, and that insights of evolutionary biology can be used to bring new light onto the human brain, and human behaviour more generally. These neo-Darwinists have sought to apply natural selection to social organization much like Herbert Spencer’s meek justification that the social stratification and colonial domination of expansionist industrial capitalism reflected
Words: 1187 - Pages: 5
In chapter four philosopher Jean-Baptiste Lamarck wrote Philosophie Zoologique. Lamarck was a soldier, biologist, and scholar who came up with the concept that species changed over time. This concept is known as evolution, which Lamarck advanced his concept to natural laws. Naturalism beliefs have “natural laws and forces operate in the world” ideas that miracles can be answer by natural reasoning, rules, and regulations. English philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer most influential book
Words: 345 - Pages: 2
Throughout time, there have always been attempts to use science to justify killing, pillaging, and genocide. These justifications are generally completely false and based on nothing more than hypothesis. However, people still believed these justifications and, in some cases, they are still used today to discriminate against people. This stems partially from the civil war era and the debate as to whether there really are more than one species of human. The civil war was largely triggered by southern
Words: 1119 - Pages: 5
Eugenics was used to control the human race by “eliminating” people with disabilities, and others who would affect the dream of a “perfect white race”. Eugenics was an incorrect use of Darwin’s theory of evolution. For example, Darwin’s theory of evolution was about survival of the fittest, and with evolution there would be no individuals with disabilities or defects. However, he says this was not meant to manipulate the human race. Darwin’s theory of evolution was used for plants, and animals
Words: 1516 - Pages: 7
