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In the same fashion the Roman Catholic Church told Galileo to treat the Copernican theory (which states the earth and other planets revolve around the sun) as a hypothesis and not the truth, fundamentalists of the twentieth century have urged people to treat evolution as a theory, but nothing close to the truth. The Copernican theory was eventually accepted because of the overwhelming evidence supporting it; however, evolution can only be inferred from fragments of evidence and conjectures that date millions of years. Charles Darwin's revolutionary suggestion, that man evolved from primates (close relatives to monkeys, though not monkeys themselves), sparked debate on whether or not the theory was "morally" acceptable. The Bible clearly stated that creation was the doing of all the world's existence and those who refused to compromise science and religion became fundamentalists. Evolution, if studied thoroughly, is a complex explanation of how we may have come to be and how other living things around us may have become what they are now. Many questions about its validity still exist, especially because no person was present for the bulk of its process. However, to defeat evolution by terming it evil ("evilution") just because it goes against the Biblical accounts of world creation is a blow to human progress. The epic battle of science vs. religion, which began with burnings of astronomers and other "magicians" has lasted over centuries and is still a topic of debate. The ultimate question may not be whether man came from monkeys or were made of sand and dirt, but how much longer this battle will go on and what it will take to relieve science of the social leash put on by religion. In response to the decision that will eliminate evolution from the Kansas public school curriculum, we present two opposing views on the theory of evolution. Read Now! Creationist View by Jonathan Wu Evolutionist View by anonymous |
