Are you smarter than Darwin???
@ChaoticBeauty (263)
United States
September 28, 2009 10:36am CST
The world is aware of the theory posed by Charles Darwin, that man, and the earth itself, is evolving. What most people don't know, however, is that Darwin himself dismissed this theory as "ludicrous" a couple years prior his death.
Unfortunately, during the time of his research into the theory of evolution of the species, some of the top scholars of his day caught wind, and decided to run with their own knowledge in an attempt to "disprove" creation.
Why is this? Before Darwin's posed theory, creation was taught as factual along with mathematics, science, and other indisputable topics. Even today, there are people that argue for the "evidence" of evolution, citing all their scientific knowledge as fact, when, in reality, with a flood the size of the one that covered the earth, you can be sure to throw out all we know about the way science and things work. The great deluge was simply outside the understanding of even modern day science and research.
Why do people still question creation, when to believe otherwise, as Darwin admits, is "ludicrous"?
Are you smart enough to have caught something that Darwin spent his entire life looking for, but never found, to prove the existance of evolution?
2 responses
@ra1787 (501)
• Italy
28 Sep 09
Evolutionism is a scientific theory, that explains a lot of things, for example we share more than 90% of our dna with rats, and a fair share with bugs, the most simple explanation is that we all descend from the same origin.
Creationism has no proofs it is just a leap of faith, and cannot be considered a valid scientific theory.
You can use creationism as a way of explaining why things evolved in a certain way, but if you have to know how things happened you have to choose evolutionism.
Even if darwin changed his mind it doesn't mean that he was not right before.
Even the catholic church has accepted evolutionism.
@ChaoticBeauty (263)
• United States
28 Sep 09
Hmm...correction. We don't share our DNA with anything. Rats have strands in their DNA structure that is highly similar to ours, but not an exact match. Same with bugs. These similar strands are what is known as a common strand, and is basically what makes us living beings. The human body...well, all bodies to be exact, are only collections of cohesive energy, bound together with the breath of life. That breath of life comes from God himself, and is the biggest part of what makes life...life. It should be no wonder that we find the same fingerprint in animals across the earth. Each and every one bears the signature of its' Maker imprinted on its' DNA.
Creation is, in actuality, more a proveable theory than evolution, and the fact that the Catholic church accepts it is no surprise. We all know that catholicism has a great many deal of issues, and this would only be yet another. No other religion in the world worships the parents of their god(s), yet the catholics seem to think that Mary deserves some special place equal that of Jesus, her son.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that the one proof that is required to justify creation or evolution is that someone that we humans can interact with would have had to witness whichever actually happened.
Creationism is not a leap of faith, but rather a well documented and accepted knowledge worldwide, even outside of Christianity. It is the most widely held belief that we were created by the will of a Supreme Being. Such a belief held by billions cannot be merely passed off as a leap of faith...
@ra1787 (501)
• Italy
28 Sep 09
I am not saying that it should be disrespected or anything but it is still a leap of faith, nothing more, even if billions believe so.
Faith is not wrong, but for the definition of faith it is not supported by evidence.
I do believe that things happen for a reason and maybe those casual mutations that are the basics of evolutionism are not so casual after all.
But the idea that man appeared out of nowere for divine intervention doesn't fit the facts.
There are many fossils that testify the various steps taken by species in the evolutionary process.
I repeat that creationism and evolutionism answer different questions. Pretending to explain everything with just one of them can't provide a complete answer.
How things happened is a scientific fact explained by evolutionism, why things happened in that way is something that science can't explain.
Pretending to explain everything with evolutionism is not possible if we have to stick to scientific facts, pretending to explain everything with creationism is either fanaticism of blind faith.
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
22 Oct 09
Darwin did not recant his theory. Theory of evolution has the been the reigning scientific theory in this regard for over 150 years. Christians who say that evolution is wrong cos the Bible says against it are mistaken is their reading of the Bible as well as their doing of Science. They need not be either or kind of thing.
