Evolution Few Topics Stir More

¶ … Evolution

Few topics stir more passionate debates than the theories of evolution and creationism. However, there are atheistic evolutionists and there are theistic evolutionists, who accept a compromise between creationism and evolutionism.(Evolution). In its true form, evolution explains that the universe is the result of random accidents, in which life arose through chemical processes, meaning that all life-forms, from fruit to flowers, animals to humans, share a common ancestor.(Evolution). This theory includes topics that range from chemistry to astronomy to biology that are responsible for the creation of the universe (Evolution).

From the Big Bang theory has emerged the Inflationary Universe Theories, which include approximately fifty different variants, although generally they all claim that in the beginning there was nothing and then suddenly a "singularity" appeared and exploded, laying the foundation for basic evolution (Evolution). However, for all these theories, none can claim to be the true explanation of the universe, and none can answer what was there before there was "nothing" or what or where the "nothing" originated.

According to a 2004 Gallup Poll, forty-five percent of Americans believe that God created human beings, approximately 10,000 years ago, while some thirty percent believe that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is a well-supported theory, another third believe that the Bible is the actual word of God and is taken literally, word for word (Vitaska 2005).

According to the Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, "creation is to bring into being or form out of nothing," something that humans cannot accomplish (Redditch 2002). This is the typical argument presented by creationists, who somehow relate evolution to a man-made event. However, theory of evolution is just as mysterious as the theory of creation, both are attributed to an event that simply "happens," whether by God's divine order, or simply by a cosmic event, yet in each, man is the eventual outcome, not the reason or cause.

Many advocates of creationism believe that it is the underpinning of the American republic, that the Founding Fathers believed it to be so, and that every form of the U.S. government is based upon that belief, while other governments, such as communism and Marxism is based on accidental evolution (Benen 2001).

This belief system appears to be the extreme, however it is a popular one among creationists.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, "The theory of evolution explains how life on earth has changed...In scientific terms, 'theory' does not mean 'guess' or 'hunch'...Scientific theories are explanations of natural phenomena built up logically from testable observations and hypotheses" (Benen 2001). Biological evolution is the best scientific explanation for the vast range of observations about the living world, thus "the occurrence of evolution in this sense is a fact," because scientists no longer question whether descent with modification occurred since there is so much strong evidence to support the idea (Benen 2001).