Sunday, April 20, 2014

Analysis Of Christian Arguments Against Evolution

By Essie Osborn


Science has always been in conflict with Christianity for centuries on end. While Christians believe that man was created by a supreme being called God, Scientists postulate theories to account for the origin of life. Many arguments thus arise from this state of impasse. Among these are the Christian arguments against evolution.

Charles Darwin is taken as the father of evolution. In his book called The Origin of Species he tries to explain how we evolved from our ancestors, the apes. This was prompted by two factors. First, we needed to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Two, our genetic composition underwent transformation, giving us newer traits.

The creation story of the Bible is the whole truth according to Christians and there is no need to debate about it. Adam was created and given dominion over the earth and all that is in it. He and his wife Eve were told to multiply and subdue the earth. Cain, Abel and Seth were born and all human beings are said to come from that lineage. Reproduction is thus seen as a way in which man becomes a co creator with God.

Most theologians of the Christian religion have for a long time demonized the evolution theory. The issue of man having to emerge out of a lesser being is clearly outrageous, in their view. If those chemical equations put forward were able to work, then it could be possible by now to raise the dead or to create a person from scratch, given the intense researches that have been conducted in this area.

Several predictions have been made about the end of world to no avail. The Two Thousand Millennium was the closest prediction but it disappointingly flopped. Belief that beings evolve could foreground the western racist tendencies that Africans are savage and thus still evolving. This can be detrimental to world peace in this century. Just as the beginning is unknown, the mystery of the end of the world cannot be revealed by any man.

Although Darwin and his theory of natural selection and survival for the fittest are being studied in classrooms, believers find it out rightly wrong. One man who was not religious in the first place could not claim such a revelation. Being a theory, it has the probability ratio of either being right or wrong. What is written in the Holy Book however cannot be disputed because it came from the Great One whose knowledge surpasses that of man.

In matters of faith it is hard to sway people to the right or to the left. A long held belief cannot be dismissed by a mere theory which, thousands of years down the line, is yet to be proven. Since its beginning, the earth has always been the same. Only the perception of men and their utilization of resources have changed. Education has also caused some confusion here and there.

The persisting phenomenon is now where scientists are conducting more research to establish the sloppy truth. As for the Christians, the truth has come and the Messiah is coming back to prove it. Who knows, maybe one group will win, or things will continue like this until eternity. We only have to wait and see.




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