Thursday, September 6, 2007

Evolution vs. Creation

Evolution vs. creation. Also, popularly known as the reason vs. religion battle that has been going on for ages. There has been evidence to support both but no proof. People just believe what they choose to believe in.

Evolution is the theory that all organism's have an common ancestor. Darwin's theory was that random mutations would occur within a organism's genetic code, which is called crossing over. The advantageous mutations would be kept because they aid in survival. Then these organisms that are best adapted in their environment reproduce and pass on their traits to the nest generation. The less adapted organisms will eventually die. This process is known as survival of the fittest. Due to these mutations and competition, organisms with mutations would move to a new environment and learn to adapt there, making changes in its appearance. Then speciation will occur. Speciation is the splitting of one species into two due to separation by reproduction by some effect of a different trait. Then eventually, the organism will move again and so on and so forth.

Creationism is the believe that the earth, all the creatures in it, and the universe were created by god, or such a deity. Most creationists believe that the earth was created in seven days and was shaped by floods as stated in the book of Genesis, for Christians and Jews, and the Qur'an, for Muslims. The theory of creation says that creatures started out lucind and seperated creatures. But creationist do not believe that those creatures gradually change into completely different and seperated creatures during evolution. They do not believe that through time, single-celled organisms evolved into more complex plants and animals and eventually into Homo Sapiens. Creation is the belief that ever organism is created by someone whose existence is yet unknown to us. There are many different types of creationism. There is young earth creationism, old earth creationism, gap creationism, progressive creationism, intellignet design, and thiestic creationism.

2 comments:

Dina said...

Both fossil records and microbiology disprove Darwinism. In fact, the number years it would take for evolution to have occurred is greater than the age of the earth. Found in a corner, Darwinists suggest that the first organisms came from another planet, one much older than earth.

You have to have a lot of faith to believe in Darwinism. I guess that would make it a religion!

Charlie Brown said...

It was actually six days.
Referring to the image, we also draw our facts from the bible.
Darwin added to the theory created by Greek philosophers which he called "natural selection". So technically its not even completely Darwins theory. Just this part; As the organisms evolved they keep the good organisms and forget the bad ones, we humans are the pinnacle of evolution and we don't have all the good features, we have weaknesses too. It makes no sense?
How did they all evolve from one cell? and once it was ONE animal how did that animal make another animal to mate with?