Origin

            It is commonly believed that evolutionism and creationism cannot coexist. This is called the "Creation–evolution controversy" or the "Origin Debate" , and it has been going on for years. However, though they seem to indeed disagree with each other, I wish to disprove this idea completely. I believe that  these two different ideas can indeed work together in a sense. That though we may not know the exact truth, I feel my theory is a plausible explanation for our origins.    

            Evolutionism is the belief that every living organism has evolved, or adapted, from other organisms. In most uses, it denies the belief of God creating the world and universe.  This idea is a common belief amongst religious and social groups such as atheists, humanists, fascists, and other "anti-religious" groups. And, most people who believe this take the scientific view point on most controversial ideas, such as origin and creation of the universe.  Evolutionism was started by the famous 19th century scientist, Darwin, which is why evolutionism is also commonly called Darwinism.

            Creationism is the belief that God created life, the universe, and everything and takes a literal view of the book of Genesis in the Bible. This is popular among Christians, or anyone else that believes in the Bible. Those who believe in creationism take a religious view on life, and denies evolutionism.

            These two ideas are very contradicting in the eyes of most people, and it is understandable. One states that everything evolved from nothing, that from the abyss of nothing sprang the universe and from the universe sprang life. And, then that life evolved and adapted to where we are now. On the other hand, God created a universe from nothing, and put life down on it, and it has been like that even to this day.  My opinion? What if God created the means which by a universe could be born? Maybe it was not just him pointing his finger and a universe was created in a second. I think that he created the God Particle, the means by which the universe was born. And, then with the matter and elements that were now flying in what we now know as space, he smashed them together to form planets, stars, quasars, and the entire universe. So, I believe it really was the big bang, but it was set into motion by God. And the actual formation of it all is so seemingly inconceivable, that it could not of simply happen by chance. Our planet has to be this certain distance from the sun, any slight change in where the Earth is and it's course, would make it uninhabitable for human life. There is no way it could be chance that put our planet in that exact spot. The origin of life on our planet though is more controversial simply because there is so little known about it. I believe that indeed, animals have evolved, in all shapes and sizes. Animals have been evolving constantly, even from dinosaurs. Crocodiles are perfect examples, they look like little dinosaurs if you think about it. And, they have been around for millions of years.

            Where human life came from is more difficult to understand. All scientific evidence points to evolution, to us evolving from apes, to early Neanderthals, to what we are now.  This is something that we, as a race, know much less about. The chances are for the right matter and elements to come together to form sentient life in the first place are incomprehensibly tiny, and to adapt a brain like ours is absolutely incredible, and I am sure that that is not just from evolution. However, humans have indeed evolved or just adapted to the modern day. From ancient Egyptians from now is a lot has changed in our bodies. So, yes, I believe humans have "evolved" in a sense, but I don't think the origin of the human race is from a fish that grew legs. Other animals? Yes, just not humans. All in all, I believe there is way too much unknown to us in order to make a valid conclusion about the origin of human life. However, I think it is a lot more plausible that there is a little of both Creationism and Evolutionism rather than one or the other.                 

Time

"Time... you can't see it, you can't hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of becoming, what we are, instead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it, slice by slice." - From the movie: A Man from Earth

                What exactly is time? Time has always been there, from the beginning all the way to eternity. Time is incomprehensible, as large and infinite as the universe itself, and just as a mystery.  It indeed has always been there, but at the same time, as the quote says, "you can't see it, you can't hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't measure it...". Now, some of you may be thinking that clocks measure time but, if we continue this quote, someone asks "don't clocks measure time?" and the man answers with  "No, they measure themselves, the objective referee of a clock is another clock". And despite not being able to see, hear, weigh, or measure it we, as a race, acknowledge time's existence. Why? Because what we do not only see, and hear, but feel too, are the effects of time as we "move through it".

                Time is indeed the sense of becoming that this quote talks about, we see and feel what we become, maybe not in a nanosecond, but we can see change in ourselves, but even more so in others. We notice how people around us change, both physically and mentally. We can see people we grow up with get taller, wider, shorter, thinner, all complements of time. In J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit", one of  Gollum's riddles portrays these very effects of time. "This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats mountain down."  The answer of course, being time.  And, indeed, it seems all things are swallowed up into the gaping jaws of the mighty beast we all call, time. In my mind's eye, time is one of the most amazing topics to talk about, because it is indeed always there, but we may not ever fully understand it. Unlike other topics, such as emotions, reasons of thought, ethics, morality, etc. because, those topics may only apply to some people, and we will never understand those because they are all different for every person, while time effects everybody.

                There is also the idea of time travel, that is commonly used in popular Sci-Fi culture. And, we have indeed found that, while in space, time is different because our bodies age slower. So, the furthest anyone has "traveled into the future" is only a few milliseconds. This record is held by Valeri Polyakov, who has spent more time in space in one mission than any other man (473 days, 18 hours, or 14 months) And though there is no way, currently, that we can forcefully shoot a man though time via time machine yet, it is proven, though only slight amounts, time travel has been accomplished. And, it is believed that black holes in space are powerful enough to indeed slow time down immensely, however this has not been confirmed because anything that gets close to a black hole will be pulled in (including light), and will not come out (at least on that side, there may be another side of the black hole, making it a worm hole). All these theories, although very interesting, are still theories.

                Time. Nobody knows exactly "what" it is, however it still proves to be the strongest force in the universe. And, man has a long ways to go if they ever wish to succeed in overcoming it. These are just a young philosopher's views on an infinite topic.