Creation Vs. Evolution
How did life on earth begin? Was it simply a matter of chance or does order predispose an intelligent planner? Is man a mechanism of a higher order? What explanation does scientific information support? Attempts to answer these and other related questions have proposed many theories and beliefs. The two most widely accepted explanations are creation, as told in the book of Genesis of the Bible, and the theory of evolution as told by men like Charles Darwin. In this paper I will be proving that both Genesis and Darwin are both different in their telling of existence. However, both accounts for existence are vague which need faith, leading them to be similar, and thus allowing them to compliment on one another giving us better understanding of where we came from. Darwin and Genesis are often seen as personifications of two contradictory views of the universe. Darwin symbolizes an evolutionary and naturalistic view of the universe from which God is excluded. Genesis symbolizes a world-view where everything is created by the direct creative act of God. If Darwin is taken seriously then Genesis is ignored and God is gently squeezed out of existence. If Genesis is to be taken seriously, then Darwin and all of his works are
In discussing this, it became evident that both accounts of existence must have a high degree of faith in order to believe in either one, because none of them can actually be proven one hundred percent correct. Therefore, it might be safe to say that both are similar even with their many differences, and both have the ability to aid humanity unraveling the mysteries to our existence. Attempting to tie it into scientific discovery always fails, as it is unavoidable since the Bible was written thousands of years before the rise of geology. Meaning that both of these accounts that society has faith in are both unfalsifiable and unscientific. Evolution means different things to different people, but in essence, evolution means that all life is descended from a common ancestor, "most popularly that we are descended from apes" (Darwin 141). " Duane Gish outlines in his article that "neither creation nor evolution qualifies as a scientific theory" (Gish 146). Thus from an early age, people are encouraged to believe in a literal six, twenty-four day creation. " Twenty Questions An Introduction To Philosophy. Open any children's Bible on the first page and you are usually confronted with an idealized picture of a lamb frolicking with a lion, and then leading to the first creation story. This aids and abets young people to give up their faith at an early age, but the problem often persists to adulthood, leaving them with a nagging doubt that God could not have created the world because of Darwin. Just as the logos of God chose the clay of a human body to reveal itself to the children of God in the Incarnation, so was the very life process on earth; which we know as evolution, to become the vessel of God's unfolding purpose, and continuing creation.
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