Monday, June 30, 2014

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.                 

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