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Instruction: In the absence of our regular face-to-face interaction in our class, please participate in a discussion with other students about what topics from this week have been most interesting or difficult

Anthropology

Instruction:

In the absence of our regular face-to-face interaction in our class, please participate in a discussion with other students about what topics from this week have been most interesting or difficult. In the same discussion, please share why you thought it was interesting or why you experienced difficulties with these topics and how you have improved your understanding.

You should include any recommended study tips, review videos, or other materials you used to follow up on or help improve your understanding of the topic(s). Please respond to at least two other students in this discussion board - you can choose to respond by helping others out with suggestions for studying, you can choose to respond to students who had difficulties with the same topics as you, you can choose to respond to students who found the same topic interesting, etc. 

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After watching the lecture and reading Chapter 2 I really feel like the most difficult thing for me to understand is the opposition to evolution today. I can really wrap my head around  natural and artificial selection and the 3 types of evolution and even some of the genetics (I, like most of you, was introduced in high school to punnet squares). But, it really is difficult for me to understand why so many people want to bury their head in the sand about something that can be proven time and again, in so many ways. The text book claims that "the majority of Christians don't believe that biblical depictions should be taken literally. But at the same time, some surveys show that roughly half of all Americans don't believe that evolution occurs." (Jurmain, 43). I can only assume it is because it has never really been explained, or maybe the were never taught it in school. My husband grew up in a very religious community in California and never had any of genetics or evolution taught to him until college. The text book also claims that people want "definitive, clear-cut answers to complex questions" (Jurmain, 43), but those don't come so easily, still it seems so sad that in this day of information at our finger tips, more people don't or won't look into evolution as an answer. And like Professor Johansen has said on numerous occasions, one is not exclusive of the other. 

I just keep opening my text book and talking to others to further my understanding. It is important to listen to others opinions and try to see through their eyes. I can even learn from the Vatican, who has hosted conferences on evolution. They have even recognized evolution as a possibility, even though the human soul may be exempt from the process of evolution. 

Just as it is important for people to look beyond their bibles and listen to science, it is important for me to look beyond science to understand and respect their biblical ideals of creationism. After all, isn't that one of the aspects of cultural anthropology, the social aspect, customs and beliefs of human groups?  

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