Religion and evolution

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96. Creation and Evolution

I am going to begin by telling my stance. I believe that we and everything around us is a creation made by the Christian God. I understand that people have their strong beliefs about this and I do not want to step on anybody's shoes. I am simply putting out how I feel for you to get a perspective you might not understand.

What exactly is evolution? Berkely.edu defines it as, ’Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. This definition encompasses small‐scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next) and large‐scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations). Evolution helps us to understand the history of life.’ Many people do not know this, but a lot of Christians do believe in small-scale evolution. It is seen prevalently in nature and is hard not to believe with all of the proof available. Large-scale evolution, on the other hand, is not so widely accepted.

Christians believe in the stories from Genesis chapters 1 and 2. In these stories, God creates man kind. According to large-scale evolution, everthing evolved from a common ancestor. This would completely discredit the stories from Genesis 1 and 2. If the first and arguably two of the most important chapters of the Bible were discreditted, what is to keep people from saying the whole Bible is false? This would tarnish the faith of Christianity.

According to a poll of scientists listed in American Men and Women of science, 52.5% of the biologists who responded were Christians and 40.6% believed in life after death. The scientists that were polled spend their lives researching about evolution, but still do not fully accept it. In my opinion, that is saying something.

Science will never be able to confirm nor deny the existance of God, it is beyond science. If we were to have an exact answer, what would be the point of having faith. The Bible does gives many different counts of the origin of life; for example, as mentioned previously Genesis 1 and 2, Proverbs 8, Job 26, and Psalm 74. When reading the Bible your focus should not be on how heaven was made, but how to get there.