Creation Vs Darwinism Essay, Research Paper
Creationism is the theory that man, the earth, and the rest of the universe was originally created rather than randomly exploding from nothingness into chance existence.
Of all the generations thus far to inhabit the Earth, we have the least excuse for not recognizing the quiet presence of The Scientific Mathematician who set everything into motion around us. We should be in awe, not presumptuous and skeptical.
About 3,000 years ago King David of Israel wrote (Psalm 8:3-4) “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that You visit him?”
Creationism is the product of a literal interpretation of the Biblical story of Genesis. It holds that God created the world in a single act approximately 6,000 years ago-and that human beings, animals, and other forms of life exist today much as they did then. To many creationists, the theory of evolution is heresy. They argue that fossil records and other scientific evidence of evolution are either false or were themselves created by God.
“In the beginning, God created the heaven and earth.”And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. “And God said, let there be light: and there was light. “And God saw the light, that it was good; And divided the light from darkness. “And God Called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. “And God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters. “Ands God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; And it was so.
A theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory.
Some of the early forms of animals were poorly adapted, and their species did not survive. Eventually, the animals as we know them today were formed and survived.
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.
The Scopes “Monkey Trial” makes headlines in July as Dayton, Tenn., schoolteacher John T. Scopes, 25, goes on trial for violating a March 13 law against teaching evolution in the state’s public schools. Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Scopes has tested the law by acquainting his classes with the 1859 teachings of Charles Darwin. Defended by Chicago attorneys Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone, he is prosecuted by former secretary of state William Jennings Bryan, found guilty, and fined $100. Bryan dies of apoplexy July 26.
Scopes Monkey trials:
Williams Jenning Bryan, three-time Democratic candidate for President and a populist, was the leading figure in a Fundamentalist crusade to banish Darwin’s theory of evolution from American classrooms.
Clarence Darrow, who was approaching 70, decided to join the battle in Dayton. Darrow was not the first choice of the ACLU, who was concerned that Darrow’s zealous agnosticism might turn the trial into a broadside attack on religion.
Bibliography
darwin, charles “Origin of Speices” 1996, reprint England 96