Student Who Makes the Statement

¶ … student who makes the statement that they do not believe in biological evolution, yet believes that it is not necessary to worry about air pollution because through natural selection, the human species will develop lungs that can detoxify pollutants is contradicting. It is clear that they do not understand what biological evolution means. By definition, biological evolution is the process in which a new species evolve from existing species over time. (Wikipedia). Biological evolution is the change in organisms over time, often in response to natural selection, such that the descendants are genotypically different from their ancestors. This means that evolution occurs over time as a result of a species adapting to its environment. So, if the human species is going to develop lungs that can detoxify air pollutants, then this is something that will evolve through biological evolution over a specific period of time.

It will be because of evolution and adaptation that the human lungs will develop into lungs that have the capability of detoxifying the air pollution that enters into the lungs. Humans and animals alike have the ability to adapt to their present environment, so over a period of time, the lungs will adapt to the air pollution and will eventually evolve into lungs that can handle the high levels of pollution.

Therefore, biological evolution can be proven by looking at today's different species. Every human being and every type animal that exists on the face of the Earth today has evolved from some form of earlier species. Every thing has a parent. The first step in demonstrating the truth of evolution is to make the claim that all living creatures must have a living parent. This point has been overwhelmingly established in the past century and a half, ever since the French scientist Louis Pasteur demonstrated how fermentation took place and thus laid to rest centuries of stories about beetles arising spontaneously out of dung or gut worms being miraculously produced from non-living material. There is absolutely no evidence for this ancient belief. Living creatures must come from other living creatures. All living creatures have DNA and genes that are passed down. This is how evolution evolves. The combination and the spreading genes create living organisms that are capable of adapting to their environment.