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Prompt 13

Quite frankly, I didn't have as much of an interest in this class when I first enrolled. It isn't a part of my major, but I wanted to boost my science GPA for medical school, so my friend who took it told me that the instructor and class format was really good. Coming from a private Christian school background, I had a very broad sense of what evolution was. I knew vaguely about Darwin's theory, natural selection, common ancestor, and speciation, but I guess I did not know much of what it entailed. I was interested to take the class because I never had a class solely focused on it, and even though I had come from a Christian background, I think it was important to understand it firsthand rather than second. Learning evolution in this class changed what evolution really was to me, and I can understand the zeal for it. The majority of the content didn't really contradict my beliefs or cause me much worry once we got into it. I really appreciate how Dr. Tobler delivered th...