Question

B) Define the term Evolution. Evolution cannot be equated with progress. Justify this statement.

Answer 1

There is no real progress in the concept of evolution. Evolution is just the production of diversity of life forms and shaping of this diversity by the nature which depends on the conditions available in the surroundings of a particular organism over millions of years. The only progress in evolution appears to be that more and more complex body designs of organisms have emerged over the ages.

Again, it is not as if the body designs of older organisms were inefficient. This is because many of the older and simpler forms of organisms still survive on earth. For example, one of the simplest and primitive life forms called 'bacteria' still inhabit some of the most inhospitable (or unfavorable) habitats such as hot springs, deep-sea thermal vents and the ice in Antarctica. Most other organisms cannot survive in such harsh environments.

Answer 2

Answer.

Evolution is defined as a process of gradual changes which takes in primary organisms over millions of years in which new species are produced.

Evolution cannot be equated with progress. This statement is not justified because it can’t be said that the older designs before the evolution were not efficient. Evolution has led to the complexity of the body over the time but the older designs were equally efficient and it is provable with the example of the bacteria which came before the evolution and is still surviving in the present conditions. Bacteria inhabits themselves in hot springs, deep oceans ad ice in Antarctica. The body of the Human beings have been designed with the environmental conditions and their existence is supported.