1. You have 2 minutes to justify your answer!
Switch on 2 learning
Who would win?
You have 2 minutes to justify your answer!

2. The answers depends on this…win at what?!!
Climbing trees?
Swimming?
Flying?
The answers depends on this…win at what?!!
The panda fish catching competion?
A height competition?
Seeing predators?

3. Foundational Theology
Unit 1: Origins and meaning
What is meant by ‘evolution’?
Learning objective:
To understand Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
To examine the views of Dawkins on Evolution.
To examine the Catholic Church’s response to Evolution.

4. What does success look like today? Today’s success criteria:
Lesson title: What is meant by evolution?
L.O. To understand Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
To examine the views of Dawkins on Evolution.
To examine the Catholic Church’s response to Evolution.
Today’s success criteria:
You MUST understand what is meant by evolution.
You SHOULD explain Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
You COULD explain how Roman Catholics respond to this theory.

5. Evolution: Get creative!
Evolution: The theory that complex organisms developed from earlier simpler forms of life.
Many people believe that humans have evolved from primates.
They believe that over millions of years man has adapted and changed to his surroundings and environment.
Just imagine that it was the year
1,002,016 AD. Design what you think humans might have evolved into by then.
Describe your drawing on your sheet carefully.

6. Darwin and evolution Who was Charles Darwin? What was his job?
What did he discover?
What was different about the finches he observed?
What was his theory of ‘Natural selection’?
How does the example of the ‘Peppered moths’ support the idea of Natural selection?

7. Darwin’s natural selection
Which giraffe do you think will survive the longest?
Which is most likely to survive long enough to reproduce?
Why?
Which bird do you think will survive long enough to reproduce?
The wingless bird or the bird with wings?
Why?

8. Could you live on this?
Can you guess what these delicacies are, where they come from and would you eat/drink them?

9. Evolving tastes and diets
Maggot Cheese – In the 14th-16th Century in Sardinia Maggot Cheese became a national dish which is to this day enjoyed. Maggots were often the only meat people could get during the middle ages in Sardinia due to famine, plague and war. Cheese proved to be excellent diary and this dish helped thousands survive. If you lived in Sardinia in the middle ages and couldn’t eat this you would probably have died of starvation.
Live Octopus – South Korea.
South Korean cuisine is based a lot on sea food. People traditionally had poor cooking resources and not much money so lived traditionally on what they could fish.
Live octopus is octopus eaten whilst it is alive and is deemed a local delicacy. To many westerners this would make us ill because our bodies are not used to this type of food.

10. Evolving tastes and diets
Kopi Luwac – Indonesia
In Indonesia locals regularly drink the ‘poshest’ coffee in the world. Made from the Indonesia cat’s dung (the Luwac cat) the beans are cleaned from its dung and brewed to make the coffee. To western pallets this might make us ill but Indonesians are used to drinking coffee from the dung of a cat.
In Western Europe and America many people have evolved their diets to high saturated fatty diets high in sugar and salts.
To people from the Middle and Far East, South America and Africa this food would often be un-edible without serious health consequences since many of their bodies are not evolved to this type of diet.

11. Is evolution real? White hat: What is the clip about? Yellow hat:
What arguments does Ross put forward to support evolution?
Black hat:
What arguments does Phoebe put forward to criticise evolution?
Red hat:
Who do you agree with?
Give reasons for your answer!

12. Creationism vs. evolution
To Creationist Christians the idea of evolution is completely absurd as it goes against Genesis.
What evidence is there for Creationism?
What evidence is there for Evolution?

13. Can you be a catholic and believe in evolution?
The Catholic Church teaches that evolution is not incompatible with God. Evolution could be true but God must be the guiding hand behind it.
Pope Francis said:
“God is not a magician. Evolution is not incompatible with the idea of creation”.
Remember:
For many Catholics Genesis is a metaphor. It is the story of why God created us, out of love. Humans being created on the 6th day could represent us evolving from animals over 6 billion years.

14. Lesson summary
Charles Darwin declared that human beings evolved over billions of years.
Due to natural selection those who had beneficial traits lived longer to breed and pass on their traits than the weaker – this is known as survival of the fittest.
Creationists completely oppose the idea of evolution because it contradicts the order of creation in Genesis.
Catholics take a more liberal interpretation of Genesis. Evolution is a likely theory as long as God is the cause of it.