As the battle heats up between the two 'theories' many people are losing sight of the facts. It is comeing down to the individuals. Amidst all of the turmoil and confusion I intend to get the facts straight, and tell it like it is. Here's my sanity...

Evolution vs. Creationism
The facts of the Matter.


There has been no topic of more heated conflict than that of Evolution versus Creationism.

How it all started…


The text of the Old Testament, created in a time of uncertainty, claimed to have the answers to many of our questions. It explained absolutely everything. That is until mankind decided to start looking for proof. Keep in mind that the spread of religion is relevant to the current events and the world situation, if you analyse the spread of Christianity you see that it came at a time and in a place when people were more liable to accept it. It thrived in a time when people thought the world was flat, and had little or no knowledge of how or why things happen. Now, with the rise of technology and a greater understanding of out universe, man is beginning to challenge these thoughts of old.

Darwin brought the thought of evolution into the public eye and has created much controversy with this. Whether or not many people admit it, most have taken a side and live devoutly by their beliefs. Some of the arguments that arise are that Evolution fails to explain everything, and therefore must be false. Evolution though, is a theory-not to be dismissed as either correct or incorrect, but to help explain things, and further our understanding so that we may use it as a stepping stone. It is subject to modification and this will further our understanding of our past.

When we take a close look at Creationism, we see that many of its supporters teach it as a law. As we all know, laws are either correct or incorrect. If there is substantial proof to indicate its inaccuracy, it must be discarded and replaced. The unwillingness to accept any of the proof against creationism is a testament to the close-mindedness that the society has fallen subject to.

A while ago there was a show on TLC the about the development of the human brain. As a child we tend to see things as either correct or incorrect, wrong or right. However as we mature we begin to see that there is more to things. We start to see things depending on how they will affect others and ourselves. The world is not black or white. The world is dependent on views. In fact, if you look at the development of mankind, you see that we have progressed much like the individual mind. At the dawn of the Common Era we accepted things as either correct or incorrect. Such an attitude gives rise to mindless rules that really don’t accomplish anything. We have to question customs, why do we continue them? Which are beneficial and which are slowing us down?

Yesterday, I stumbled upon a site that gives many Pro-Creationism answers to questions people ask. I wholeheartedly support that somebody is dedicating much of his or her time to such an endeavour. However, one thing to watch out for is that in some instances they totally disregard the facts. The author claims that all beings were created vegetarian, I find this a comforting thought, as I am a vegetarian. However this person specifically claims that the structure and teeth of the T-Rex does not mean it was a carnivore and that its knife like teeth were more likely suited for eating fruits with solid encasings. He claims that many animals turned to eating each other after what he describes as a great “fall”.

Another argument that comes up is that of Macroevolution. It has been studied and accepted that things on a small scale can evolve before our very eyes. Many creationists accept that Macroevolution does happen but claim that it does not apply to beings such as humans. The process of Mitosis can easily disprove this. All humans start as a single cell. We develop through this wonderful evolutionary process, we end up developing into a human baby, and from this we continue our life. However, allegedly humans are too complex to have developed from a single celled organism. We do anyway through conception!

Through this process we develop our senses. One of which is sight, just like the others it “may or may not” have developed through evolution. Creationists argue that the eye is so complex and would not work without everything in the exact correct formation. They argue that through evolution half an eye would be useless, however Darwin has stated that such a thing might still be able to detect light and whether or not something is bright. This would help an organism determine that it is either day or night. Even if you look at mankind now, our eyes are only capable of sensing part of the light spectrum, which includes UV rays and Microwaves. We can’t see these because we have not evolved to. We have our more primitive senses too, with our sense of touch we can’t determine the quantitative values of an object. We can only determine qualitative things such as general temperature-as to say such a thing is ‘hot’. We can’t immediately determine the composition or accurately detect the measurements. In fact, none of our senses can.

The argument of climate and location in relation to how organisms develop is also something that needs to be brought up. The fact that many of the faster moving animals live on the plains and that the slower ones may have thrived in an area with heavier vegetation and have developed camouflage to survive is not a coincidence. We see differences among the same species in relation to climate and location. Bears that reside in wooded areas are usually brown or black, whilst the polar bears of the north are white. Such similarities can be found elsewhere. Penguins and other flightless birds still have wings. This is because the predecessor to such species had similar attributes of which they could perhaps use for flight. Penguins use there’s to swim. It’s just how they developed. Birds elsewhere can use their wings for flight, or as they see fit. In Australia they have a type of lizard that through evolution has lost its legs and finds slithering a more effective means of travel for its situation. We know this because it still has stubs where its arms and legs would have been.

In the Bible, the story of Noah’s ark states that two of every species was brought aboard the ark to be spared from the floods. What about species that don’t have two? Many species have developed to be asexual and are able to reproduce without a mate. This is in fact an attribute of some species of amphibians.

To say that evolution is not capable of producing mankind and our current world situation is almost demeaning. Look how far we have come, billions of years of work and we are at the top of the class. We are in the middle of an evolutionary marvel. The ecosystem took so long to develop, we can’t let it be destroyed and then ask some kind of “god” for another one. As humans we have scientifically developed to be the only sentient beings on the planet and it is our job to use the traits that evolution has given us to protect everything we possibly can.

But that’s just me.

-Tom