Note to the teacher or user of these slides.Charles Darwin observed Adaptations or Small Random Chance changesMost Textbooks define evolution very early in the text before they take up mutations. If this is how your textbook handles these subjects then you will start on the next slide. If you have already covered mutations

then start on slide number 11.

Evolution Definition

Most Textbooks Define “Biological Evolution”

asCHANGE.

A Change In What?

The Change Must Be In the DNA Since, As You Will Learn Later, The DNA Contains the

Complete Instructions On How To Make A Duplicate

Organism.

If the DNA Contains Instructions Then It Must

Contain Information. If You Are To Understand

Evolution Then It Is Essential That You Understand the Concept And Importance

Of DNA Information Content.

Think Critically

Consider These Letter Groups:

1. The Sky Is Blue.2. The Sky Is Deep Blue.3. The Sky Is Blue pndwrzeq.4. The Sky Is pndwrzeq.5. The Sky Is Blue. The Sky Is Blue.

Which Letter Group Has the LEAST Information In It?

Did You Pick Number 1? Why Not? It Has the Least

Number Of Letters.If You Picked Number 4 Why Did

You Select It Over Number 2? They Both Have The Same

Number Of Letters?

What Is the Correct Answer?

Which Letter Group Has the MOST Information In It?

Did You Choose Number 5? It Has the Most Letters.

Do Numbers 1, 3 and 5 Have the Same Amount Of Information?

ConclusionAdding Letters And/or

Words Does Not Increase Information Content

Unless It Is Meaningful.

Charles Darwin observed Adaptations or Small Random

Chance Changes in Organismsand ASSUMED that they could

result in an amoeba becoming a man (A Large Change).

Your textbook and the Encyclopedia Britannica have the same letters, some of the same

words and possibly even sentences and paragraphs. Does the fact that your textbook exists PROVE that the Encyclopedia came about by random chance

changes in your textbook?

If ALL Species Developed From Earlier Life Forms

Doesn’t This Require LARGE MEANINGFUL CHANGES in the DNA Information Content?

Textbooks say Biological Evolution

Is:CHANGE

ANY Change in the DNA

This Causes A Problem Because:

The Word Evolution Does Not Distinguish Between

a Small and a Large Change

In the DNA.

Think Critically:How Can This Problem Be

Solved?What Do the Terms Micro and

Macro Mean?Can These Two Terms Be Used

To Solve the Problem?

Small Biological Changes are properly called ADAPTATIONS and are examples of what can be called

MICRO EVOLUTION

MICRO-EVOLUTIONIs HORIZONTAL

It is a change or adaptation at the species level.

(Examples are the number of different types of: cats, dogs, cattle, birds, fish, etc.) .

Changes Above The Species Level Require Large And Very Specific Meaningful

Changes In The DNA They Will Be Called

Macro-Evolution.

MACRO-EVOLUTION Is Vertical

Man

(Has no proven examples.)

Amoeba

The Question Is Does Micro

Evolution prove Macro Evolution?

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