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Dr. Stapleton Analysis

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After having the lecture, I have lots of questions in my mind. This is because lots of things in the lecture are far from what I believe.

Dr. Stapleton believed that chimpanzees and human are come from the same species. I am quite suspect for his stance. Dr. Stapleton has also mentioned that creature will change themselves in order to adopt changing situation, I agreed with this statement. It is easy to see the examples in our living environment and Dr. Stapleton also propose some examples in human. For example, African have black skin comparing with the European. Having a black skin color is necessary which is because black skin have much melanin to protect their skin from the sun. If the creature cannot adopt the environment, they will become extinction. …show more content…

If chimpanzees is the same species with human, why there are only a part of chimpanzees evolution and become human instead of all the chimpanzees haing evolution? The lecture inspired me to think more about where do we come from.

Dr. Stapleton also talked about three aspect, religion, sexual behavior and diet. I would like to talk on the first two points.

Dr. Stapleton think what the religious belief is nonsense. He thought religion is a method to group the people and to withdraw the threaten to the society. It is undoubtedly that people have the same belief is more easy to group the people together. However, is religion only mean to group the people together? Truly, religions had been utilized to reach certain targets. For examples, lots of European country in will establish Christianity as their state religion. But why the use Christianity instead of others? Some people may think that this is relevant what the Bible has taught. According the bible(Romans 13:1-2), those thought are beneficial to the government to manage the country. It is unquestionably that every religion have some of their target to reach. On the same time, they would like to attract more people believe in the

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