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March 18, 2015 Code: 22-2


1. The people that resist the theory of evolution do so because they are afraid that everything that they grew up knowing and believing is a lie. Therefore, people deny rather than having an open mind because it might be easier to believe in what you already know. Darwin’s Theory makes me feel a little uncomfortable because my mind wants to reject every part of the information. I am trying to understand and open my mind to it. At the moment, I cannot think of anything that makes me feel comfortable about this theory.



2. I think that the injustice in the world cannot be explained by evolution. Some might want to try and explain it by survival of the fittest. If so, can there be countries that are not fit enough to survive that their whole population has to suffer?



3. Before we thought that the world was flat. Then, when scientific studies showed that it was round people believed what was told to them once again. When I was younger my mom would tell my sister and I that we had to go to the dentist because we were not behaving, but in reality we had to go to the dentist because we needed to get our cavities filled. Like when little kids are told about Santa Clause, they believe that he brings them their gifts. However, when the kids accidentally see their own parents put the gifts under the tree, or a kid in class tells them that Santa Clause is not real. As a kid you make your own conclusions, and by that you believe different things. As adults we do the same, but it is not with whether we believe in Santa.

Film Test #4 22-2
Philosophy 5
M/W 8-9:25AM
Henry Han

1. I think the reason why a large number of people resist the theory of evolution is because they do not want to believe that we were created by organisms and evolved throughout time and instead chose to believe in a higher being that would comfort them in their time of need. I think Darwin's theory just makes me curious of how we inherited the traits of organisms to help us evolve. It allows us to improve on what we lack and as scientists say that they were still billions of things that we do not know about our universe.

2. I think evolution cannot explain why the sky is blue. Why the sky is blue is because of molecules in the air which scatter the blue light from the sun than red.

3. People think that being young means that you're healthy and when you're old it means you're unhealthy. It could easily be the other way around but people constantly believe that young people cannot be unhealthy because they're so young and immune to everything and that old people are unhealthy while you see some old people that are healthier than younger people. When I was little I used to love chocolate because it tasted so good but to others it tasted disgusting so what was it really like to taste the chocolate made me wonder and I now know it was only cause of my own senses that I tasted it. Lastly, the color red is seen differently by a bunch of other people, it could be completely different from what we perceived and believed to be red. Red is only a wave that we process as red through our brain but what do blind people define as red or color blind people.

1.I think people resist the theory of evolution by natural selection because even evolution cannot fully explain where we came from.. They may say we share a common ancestor but where did the common ancestor come from? Science does not want to pull what I call a "religion maneuver" and simply state "it just existed" because it would be hypocritical to the entire existence of science. Regarding Darwin's theory, there's only one thing I don't like about it and that is that it cannot prove how the universe truly came into being.

2. Evolution cannot truly explain where and how the universe came into being. They can only go as far as to saying the Big Bang happened but even that theory has its flaws. Using science itself everything must come from something so where did all the components to the Big Bang come from? Where did the gravity to condense everything into an infinitesimally small point come from? Where did the particles that were condensed come from? It's no different than religion saying we all came from a single God over the span of 6 days and not having any real documented proof of it but at least religion goes out and says we came from nothing.

3.Three examples on Eliminative Materialism are:
    1.People used to believe the ocean, waves, and currents were controlled by Poseidon or other gods of water up until the world learned about the constantly moving Earth and how the Moon's gravity actually effects the waves.
    2. There was that period of time where Europe and Colonial America believed witches and sorcery truly existed and many people died for nothing because everyone living during that time was too religious for their own good and justified killing by accusation instead of looking for actual proof. The proof itself for half of the reasons people got killed for were explainable by simple science but that didn't exist back then.
    3. People today still throw their blame for fortunes or misfortunes to a higher level such as God. They thank God if something goes right or they blame God if something goes very wrong. God is truly not at fault for any of this because everything that happens is more or less due to our own faults. For example: Car accident -> "God wanted this to happen"; no it was either your own fault that it happened because you weren't being careful enough or the other person in the accident wasn't being careful enough.

Week 4 Film Responses (Test #22-2)

Question 1:

I think that a large number of people reject the theory of evolution by natural selection because they are too scared to comprehend what science has allowed us to learn. They become frightened by these unfamiliar and foreign ideals so they use their faith as a sort of scapegoat or defense mechanism. I feel like I’ve always been pretty comfortable with Darwin’s theories and I think that that is because it is what I’ve been taught my whole life in education and although I’ve heard many other ideas of how the universe and the human race came to be, Darwin’s theory of evolution seems to be the most plausible.

Question: 2

I think that this is a hard question because theoretically there could be many things that evolution can’t explain. There are some things that I’ve always wondered about their origin and maybe evolution would be able to explain them but it hasn’t yet so we still remain without answers. For example, how did we get life from nothing but non-living material? I’ve heard many theories, such as that of the creation of kinds and evolution occurring from there on out, but I still have no idea where we or any other living thing came from originally.

Question: 3

One example of eliminative materialism would be the replacement of the idea that demons and ghouls are what are living inside your body causing you to get sick, with the knowledge of bacterial and viral microorganisms that actually cause our illnesses. Another example would be how we no longer believe that the sun is a god whom we need to worship to survive, when we actually know now that it is the largest celestial being in our solar system that provides our planet with the light energy needed to live. Lastly, we know now that if someone is capable of things that we deem as unfamiliar or unnatural then we become curious and intrigued, rather then calling them a witch and burning them at the stake.

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Film Test #4

Code: 22-2



1. I believe one of the biggest reasons people reject the theory of evolution is because they’ve been taught to believe a certain way and that particular way is the best way. Growing up in a Christian household there were many times where I questioned the existence of God. From a very young age I have felt that the bible was just some book that was written to keep people in line, I never really thought much more of that, and dreaded every church held event. Till this day my views haven’t changed much, I’ve said this before and ill state it again, I’m not doubting the existence of God, but I have a feeling it’s much more different than what we as people perceive. But, people still believe because it’s simple to believe, whereas, the theory of evolution makes one think and people tend not to like to do that most of the time

2. I don’t think the conscious can be explained, how is that we are able to have such deep meaningful thoughts, surely evolution did not come up with that, so who did? How is that we are all here on this planet living so functionally, must be the aliens, I swear.

3. I remember when I was younger, I went to the beach along with my family, it was a good day all up until I decided to go further out into the ocean, for some reason I thought it was cool that I could no longer touch the bottom of the ocean floor. After being pushed down by a couple of waves, I could no longer get up nor breathe. I remember thinking to myself that I was going to die, for sure, when all of a sudden I was picked up by a woman , I could see her black flowy hair and she brought me back to the ocean floor where my feet could touch again, then another wave came crashing down on me pushing me under and when I rose up to see the women there was no one in site, just my dad in a family in a far distance sitting in the sand, oblivious to know what was happening with me. When I returned to the sand I asked if they saw the women who picked me up, they said no. I have no idea if that was something that was for real, an angel, or even God. But till this day it still gives me chills.

A couple years ago my father passed away from complications from a stroke, and I vividly remember how I felt the day of his passing, in my heart I just knew something wasn’t right and I had went to see him in his hospital room, when I got there he was sleeping, and I had this overwhelming feeling of needing to get out, almost as if someone was pushing me out of the room, I ended up leaving unable to gather myself and couldn’t understand the feelings I was having about not wanting to be in there. I had went home that night and had the worst headache of my life, that didn’t end up going away until about 2 am, when 2 am came I got the phone call from the hospital altering me of my father’s passing. I would like to think that in some realm my father was trying to communicate something to me, and that it wasn’t good, but then again I could be just searching for a connection. Either way, it was completely bizarre.

When I was younger I used to love to play with Ouija boards and try to communicate with the dead, yeah, I was a weird one. I have some intimidating stories that are unexplained and I think that the Ouija board definitely was the culprit of such madness, something that not even evolution could explain.


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1. In my opinion, people resist Darwin’s theory of evolution and Natural Selection due to their religious beliefs. They have their own opinions on if evolution is even a legitimate theory. What makes me uncomfortable about the theory Darwin thought of, was that there is a chance through natural selection, that some of us might not be fit enough or have the right traits to survive/reproduce in this world. It makes me uncomfortable that I could be that person, and not be able to adapt to the environment or situation that I was put into.

2.One thing i believe that cannot be explained by evolution, is the evolution of morality.

3.Eliminative materialism goes as so, peoples common sense understanding of the mind is false. Which makes absolutely 0 type of sense to me, but I looked up some examples of it, and they go as so. One example in my life is when I am thirsty, i will usually go drink water to quench my thirst. Another example is when it is raining outside, I would go to an area where it is dry, or grab an umbrella. The third example is when I will play basketball or go out for a run, and I feel very sweaty and dirty, I will go take a shower to make myself more clean.

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1.) I think a lot of people resist the theory of evolution because it might go against their religion. Most religious people do not feel comfortable with the answers to their questions being solved by science. They rely on their faith to be the answer to everything, so when they are being told about the theory of evolution, it goes against what they firmly believed in and my feel as if they are going against their religion if they believe another explanation.

2.) Most of the religious views cannot be explained scientifically by evolution because each religion claims to have the right answer. Although in science, there isn’t any cultural boundaries. There isn’t an Italian physics or American physics, its just physics all around the world, the universal language of math and science that everybody can share and come to agreement on when ignoring religion. Unfortunately, It is impossible for our world to forget about religion, even for just a day. Religion and science are two things that just do not mix well, strictly religious people answer all of their answers with “Well God did it” while a person with knowledge of science will provide you with a detailed explanation into how things are formed. Religion just can not be solved by evolution.

3.) With Eliminative Materialism we are able to solve things rationally by mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology , psychology and even sociology. We have evolved from believing things happen because of mythological beliefs. For example, blaming Zeus for causing a thunderstorm. We have also grown up from thinking that babies come from the stork and are delivered to our front door. We have eliminated the idea of spirits causing illnesses and diseases and have come to conclude with a more physiological explanation.