(Small) Evolution Speech Help

[AnimeGameMasterRebirth]

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AnimeGameMasterRebirth

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Add about ten more pages of saying the same thing over and over again but in different words and yo a**'ll be fixed. smile

lol

I'm dead-a** serious. Noone'll be able to tell. smile Now hop your a** to Word and get on that s**t.

I'm already on it.
Im editing my paper as everyone is posting!

THANK YOU ALL!!!!

[Syndactyly]

Honestly, do you have only 2 minutes?

Maybe it should just be an "introduction to evolution" but even then... seriously 2 minutes is so damn short.

[AnimeGameMasterRebirth]

Syndactyly

AnimeGameMasterRebirth

Cutie-pie Sleepyhead

I actually do not understand why you are talking about religion in this paper? You'll get graded poorly if the subject is evolution. In my opinion if I were grading you that portion would be just filler. Saying it's controversial is one thing, but the way you approach this is more or less offensive.

WOW! Seriously? I sad
I dont mean to offend.
I'll try to work out something else.

So just talk about evolution period. And I should not talk about the Debate?

In an informative speech, you probably can and SHOULD talk about the debate. Just don't strawman anyone's position.

Ok Thanx Im so grateful for everyone's help.

Also, it has to be AT LEAST 2 minutes. We can be longer! lol

[Thatsomegoodname]

Ok well.. There is two parts to evolution (I'm not an expert in science but I'll tell you as how I learned..). The proven part (as in observed in lab) to evolution is that biological species tend to change over time such as mutations (a key point to note here: this does not mean natural selection). The theoretical part (as in not proven yet) is the evolutionary synthesis (idea of how or why this happened) which is basically the one that regards natural selection as "theory".

[AnimeGameMasterRebirth]

A lot of people speed through their speech for the grade. And a lot of people talk slow, and bring up good points on their subject.

I have no F*CKING idea why I chose evolution..

The teacher pressured me for a topic...

Everything i wanted to talk about, she said she heard it all before, and she didnt want to hear it again...

She did the whole class like that... :/

So, i thought this topic would be interesting, and easy >_<

FOOLED ME!!!

[Raa Raa Rasputin]

Evolution is the easiest thing to talk about. It's got a s**t load of papers, books, damn near everything.

If you can't talk about evolution for 2 minutes, dear christ.

[AnimeGameMasterRebirth]

Thatsomegoodname

Ok well.. There is two parts to evolution (I'm not an expert in science but I'll tell you as how I learned..).

The proven part (as in observed in lab) to evolution is that biological species tend to change over time such as mutations (a key point to note here: this does not mean natural selection).

The theoretical part (as in not proven yet) is the evolutionary synthesis (idea of how or why this happened) which is basically the one that regards natural selection as "theory".

OK, thank you!
I can use this! smile

[Project 429]

Do you understand this?

If you can put this video in your own words, you might even teach your teacher something about evolution. Something most people on gaia extended discussion don't understand. Something that not all scientists understand.

[AnimeGameMasterRebirth]

Raa Raa Rasputin

Evolution is the easiest thing to talk about. It's got a s**t load of papers, books, damn near everything.

If you can't talk about evolution for 2 minutes, dear christ.

Heh heh... yeah..
Everything just looked so complicated at first glance.

So im doing MORE reading on the internet. smile And getting help.

[Vryko Lakas]

My advice, start off with a simple definition of evolution: the change in allele frequency in a population over time. That means certain genetic traits become more or less popular in the population. Nobody will have trouble accepting that.
Then you could give a brief mention of natural selection, the main driver of evolutionary change over time. Don't use "survival of the fittest," because that's bullshit. Emphasize that it's "survival of the FIT." Good enough is good enough for evolution, and even if the solution to the problem is sloppy, a sloppy solution is better than no solution at all. Organisms that develop some trait for surviving better tend to have more of their offspring survive into the next generation, lather rinse repeat.
You could then mention that scientific theories have to tell us what we should expect to find, and whether or not we find them determines how good the theory is. For evolution, we expect to find many different things depending on where we look:

-Based on anatomy, if evolution is true we'd expect organisms that are closely related to be more similar than organisms that are not closely related. Then point out that this is exactly what we DO find, and that we have been classifying plants and animals this way long before we knew that things evolved.
-Based on genetics, evolution tells us that organisms sharing a recent common ancestor should have more genes in common than organisms with a common ancestor from long ago in the past. It turns out that this is exactly what happens, and we can check the results of genetic studies against the results of taxonomy (the first point about anatomical similarity). To a large extent they match up almost exactly as we predicted they would. Contrary to what some people may say, we are NOT more closely related to bananas than chimps. That's an urban legend.
-Based on fossils, we should expect to see gradual transitions from sea life to land animals, and from early types of land animals into more and more different types. We should NOT find human bones and dinosaur bones together. It turns out that we can use this theory to predict when and where to look for fossils of certain animals, like the first fishes to grow legs and move onto the land. We also have such "transitional forms" for amphibians->reptiles, reptiles->mammals, and dinosaurs->birds. We also expect humans and modern apes to share a recent common ancestor, and over the last hundred years we have found more and more transitional forms between ancient apes and modern humans.

I think if you can pare those down a bit to fit in one point per sentence or so, you should be able to squeeze that much into a 2 minute presentation.

[Vryko Lakas]

Thatsomegoodname

Ok well.. There is two parts to evolution (I'm not an expert in science but I'll tell you as how I learned..). The proven part (as in observed in lab) to evolution is that biological species tend to change over time such as mutations (a key point to note here: this does not mean natural selection). The theoretical part (as in not proven yet) is the evolutionary synthesis (idea of how or why this happened) which is basically the one that regards natural selection as "theory".

That's wrong. We call it a "Theory" because it's a scientific theory, which does not mean it's uncertain. Theories are as good as science gets, and they can be so certain we regard them as facts.
We've got documented cases of new species being born, I think that's about as much a fact as you can possibly get.