Session5Worksheet


 * || **Fill in your understanding & provide quotes that illustrate or support it** ||
 * **Layer 1: premises leading to conclusion that evolution results in improved adaptation to local conditions** ||  ||
 * 2 majors premises of Chapter 1 & 2 ||  ||
 * 1 major premise of Chapter 3 & its consequence ||  ||
 * 1 major premise of Chapter 4 & in combination with preceding premises, its consequence ||  ||
 * **Layer 2: analogy** ||  ||
 * Given the lessons of Chapter 1 about selective breeding by humans, namely,.. ||  ||
 * then something like selection in nature should be effective because… ||  ||
 * **Layer 3: metaphor of Natural selection** ||  ||
 * Associations that help readers conceive of this mechanism working so that evolution results in improved adaptation to local conditions ||  ||
 * Associations that help readers see that what they had learned from Natural theology can still be explained ||  ||
 * Associations that might not work in Darwin’s favor ||  ||
 * **Layer 4: preemptive defences** ||  ||
 * Against objections from other naturalists and scientists ||  ||
 * Against objections from religious authorities ||  ||
 * **Other issues or questions you have** ||  ||