I walked into the same classroom that I had walked into since the beginning of the year, but this time the room was different. Usually the seven rows of students' desks were facing the front, which was towards the blackboard. This time was different. The desks were divided into two groups of ten facing each other, and the remaining desks were at the front of the room. I thought this to be extremely odd, but I sat down in where I thought my desk would be. Once we were all in the room our biology teacher told us that for the rest of the week we were going to hold a trial on evolution. He then assigned the two separate sides of the room to the different arguments of the case. My side was to prove that modern humans evolved from a common ancestor such as chimpanzees. The other side, being a Catholic school, was to defend the bible and argue that God created humans. I was assigned to be one of the three lawyers to represent the theory of evolution, and I was to battle the diverse group of witnesses that were called to the stand. The creationist called the first witness, which was God, to the stand hoping to destroy our ambition to win; however, I did not let this discourage me. I fought back by calling Darwin to the stand. I then decided to call Lucy, an ancestor of modern humans, and several paleontologists to help prove evolution. We argued everything from Adam and Eve, to the fossils that have been found, to the to the close resemblance humans have to chimps. By the end of the week our teacher, along with the students in the jury, were to decide the winning side, of course that was my side. But this assignment was not about whose side would win it was a way to make us view evolution through all different stand points and to get a better understanding of how it may have occurred.

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