The Origins of Humanity: The Darwinian Controversy

The Origins of Humanity : The Darwinian Controversy

In earlier times , people based their understanding of where humans originated from the bible . But as technological advancements were made scientists began to propose a theory known as evolution to explain how humans came into existence . From then on , science and religion has been at odds with each other . This struggle to prove each other wrong has been known as the confrontational model between science and religion Science relies on supposed data by saying that fossil records illustrate evolution . Also , common ancestry of all living

creatures and natural selection , also known as adaptation of species , are responsible for evolution to take place . Even if selective breeding were done , it cannot demonstrate that mutation leads to evolution . Nevertheless , creationists insist that life on earth has been carefully crafted by a Supreme Being . According to John William Draper 's book History of the Conflict between Religion and Science , natural sciences were to be welcomed as liberators of humanity from the oppression of traditional religious thought and structures , particularly Roman Catholicism (Hayhoe , n .d Science , to an extent , provides an alternative explanation as to how the universe and species came about . This kind of thinking and reasoning is distinct from religious dogmas that it looks as if

science leaves no room for religion (Hayhoe , n .d . Science states the Big Bang Theory , which was an explosion that happened in our galaxy millions of years ago , to give an answer as to how the universe was created . The Big Bang Theory produced a single particle wherein every living creature were formed and evolved-which basically means they changed overtime to adapt to their specific environment

The concept of living beings originating from an explosion seems highly unlikely . The reason is that a simple cell cannot be created from the concentrate in the ocean in an organic broth where they linked together to form proteins [and] [t]hese proteins then got together with DNA to form the first simple cell (Heinze , 2002 . This idea is just not plausible because DNA or RNA cannot replicate outside a living organism (Heinze , 2002 . In addition

[w]hat are the odd that a simple single cell organism could evolve given the complexity of more than 60 ,000 proteins of 100 different configurations , all in the correct places ? Never in eternity . Time does not make impossible things possible (Rieske , 2007

The other evidence that evolutionists use to illustrate their point are fossil records . Evolutionists have cited the Coelacanth fish as a specific example of a fish that became an amphibian (Chartier , 2004 They claimed that the Coelacanth fish has been extinct for 75 million years (Chartier , 2004 . However , a Coelacanth fish was caught off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean . Surprisingly it looked the same as it 's alleged 75 million year old fossilized ancestor (Chartier 2004

Furthermore , species sharing a common ancestor is a notion that is familiar to most people . Everyone has heard about the idea that humans derived from apes millions...