GLY 102-001 Historical Geology Fall 1998
Historical Geology Assignment 9: It's Evolution, Baby.

Assigned: Thursday, October 15, 1998.
Due: Thursday, October 22, 1998.

Readings: On the World Wide Web.

Assignment: Browse on the web and find several sites about evolution and creationism, and write about them (see below).

Here are two sites worth checking out:

The Talk.Origins Archive:
http://www.talkorigins.org/rings/darwin.html

The Bible Creation Society
http://www.pages.org/bcs/index.html

Actual Assignment: Five paragraphs.
A) Write a short review of what you find at each of these two sites  (2-3 sentence paragraph for each that shows you really looked around).
B) Then surf the web and find at least two more sites and write a similar paragraph for each of them.
C)  Finally, write a paragraph that suggests what kind of website about evolution would really be useful for someone trying to learn more on the subject.  What should it include? (pictures of …, index of…, dictionary of…, whatever you think is needed).  Why/how would this be helpful, and to what audience?
 

Grade: of 5 points.
5 pts:  Clear paragraphs that express your ideas succinctly and completely.
4 pts:  Almost as good as above, but with some problems in presenting or supporting your ideas.
3 pts:  Definite problems in content or style.