The theory of vitalism has been rejected by present-day scientists. describe vitalism. describe what scientists now think about the basic of life and why they rejected the theory of vitalism. the only thing i have down is this: "vitalism is a theory that states living things have a certain property that nonliving things do not." that's all. i don't know about the rest of the question, and i'm not even sure if what i have down is  can anyone ?

Vitalism is the belief that living organisms contain force called “the vital energy” ("élan vital") that differs them from non-living things. Sometimes that vital energy is described as soul. The idea of vitalism was popular among the biologist in the 18th and 19th century and they considered that life could not be reduced to a mechanistic (physics) process. With the discovery of genetics and molecular biology dogma, the vitalism “died”. Even though, it is still present in alternative medicine and religion which consider humans as both “mind” and “body”.

from almost the creation of the first true maps of the earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together.   in particular, people noticed that south america fits almost exactly into africa.

you should be aware that while world maps were around early in the 1600’s and better defined by the end of the 1700’s, those maps were not ‘public’ but were treated as state secrets.   and so it was not till much later that the broader ‘science’ community had access to good quality and accurate world maps.

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it is now known that most of the major continental masses can be fit together in a jigsaw process.   in fact we now know that the continents were indeed once all joined together as one land mass – the supercontinent of pangaea.

if you look at most world maps you will ponder how this is evidence, as the continents really don’t appear to ‘fit’ together very well.   what you need to understand is that the vast majority of maps are drawn using a map projection that has the north and south poles (which are points) are a line the width of the map at the top and bottom.   this means that the map distorts the true shape of the earth’s land and oceans as you love closer to the poles.     some other map projections distort less, but have the map shape looking like segments of an orange.   see here for a range of map projections.   check out the way greenland changes size in each!

what is more remarkable, is the next piece of evidence when added to the shape of continents.

location of mountains and fossils

what is remarkable, when you reassemble all the continents together, the ancient mountain ranges (many now eroded to their cores) and the location of rock types and fossils all match up.

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