Creation or Evolution

             Where did we come from? Did God create our incredible world in six days, and do we all descend from Adam and Eve? Or was the universe created billions of years ago, possibly by a "Big Bang", with all living things evolving from a single organism? These questions have been debated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, and there is still no answer that satisfies everyone. Until the 18th century, most people never doubted the Biblical theory of Creation; that God was responsible for the origin of the universe, and every living thing on earth. There are many people today who still believe this theory, which infers that our world is only about six thousand years old.
             When scientific evidence to the contrary started surfacing, like bones that were found to be millions of years old, many questions were raised. Those that questioned the Bible were met with great opposition by the religious community. It wasn't until Charles Darwin published some convincing theories in the middle of the last century that people started seriously doubting the idea of Creation. Darwin completely eliminated the involvement of God in his theory of evolution. He set out to prove that all related organisms have originated from common ancestors, which many people did not want to believe. Skeletons have been discovered of what are believed to be early humans, with ape-like features that become less prominent the closer in age the bones get to our own. These discoveries seem to show the gradual evolving of man, from a member of the ape family to the upright beings we are today. Religious people do not like this theory because it seemingly contradicts the Bible, and many others simply do not want to accept that we could have descended from animals.
             One theory on the how the universe came to in to existence is the Big Bang theory, first suggested about fifty years ago by a German physicist. This hypothesis has since
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