When someone tells you something you think something so polar opposite of, it can sometimes shake you to the core, or your world can fall down around you. Such as if you were told you were a mistake, or my personal favorite, when my aunt convinced me in second grade (right after our cloud unit) that clouds were made in factories. This is how many people felt when Darwin started expressing his belief on how we came to be: Darwin’s Theory of evolution.
God’s Creationism theory came from very long ago. It is probably the most famous story in the bible. I remember learning about Adam and Eve in CCD in kindergarten. It is a very famous and believed story in a Christian society. This was most of the people when and where Darwin was. The story goes along the lines that through seven days the world was created. God made the animals, plants, light and finally man. He started with Adam and from Adam’s rib he created Eve. The seventh day was God’s day of rest, when he was finished creating the world. This is where the weekend came from- it was God’s day of rest, and it was also said in the bible that Sunday’s were meant for church and giving the day to God. Many people to this day believe this is how we evolved. However, there are those people who do not believe this biblical story. I can’t help but to think if Darwin hadn’t so bravely expressed his theory many people would be having extreme second thoughts on their own beliefs.
Darwin’s theory is more along the lines of natural selection and the belief that everything was originated from one related or common molecule. “… The birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers -- all related. Darwin's general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) "descent with modification". That is, complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors naturally over time” (Darwin-theory 1). Darwin based many of his beliefs and studies from a five year mapping trip on “the Beagle” collecting specimens. Darwin’s theory came with natural selection which was the theory in which it is believed, if something is not made to survive or not made to perfection it will fail and not be able to reproduce. An irreducibly complex system is one composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the system to function. If even one part is missing, the entire system will fail to function. Every individual part is integral (Behe).
http://vodpod.com/watch/1275125-dailymotion-simpsons-creationism-vs-evolution-a-video-from-piglips-simpsons-darwin-evolution-creationism
I chose this video because to some people it may be a cartoon, but it really it clearly shows the struggle between people because of the differences in their beliefs and the fight they will go through to prove their belief is correct. I personally believe that there is no way to prove one theory or the other and to pick a theory basically is to pick a security. One molecular biologist disproving Darwin’s theory says, “"Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world" (Denton 251). You can basically decide how the world came to be on your own. I personally was raised in a very catholic community and my immediate family is very traditional. When I hear evolution it makes sense to me. But I was raised to understand that you can't understand the way God works and we were told the story of creation many many times. It is really confusing for me, I do believe evolution at a scientific point, but sometimes I am guilted into pretending I believe the story of creation. :) Some theories can be scientifically proven wrong but these two theories have such a heated and long battle I personally believe that there will continue to be a struggle and many people may butt heads for thousands more years to come.
Sources:
Behe, Michael. Darwin's Black Box. 1996. Print.
Darwin's Theory Of Evolution. Web. 29 Nov. 2009.
Groening, Matt. The Simpsons, Creationism vs Evolution. Web.
Michael Denton, "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis," 1986
