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Creation and Evolution
The creation and evolution involves an ongoing, recurring cultural, political, and theological dispute about the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life. In accordance with creationism, species were once widely believed to be fixed products of divine creation, but since the mid-19th century, evolution by natural selection has been established by the scientific community as an empirical scientific fact.
The debate is religious, not scientific: in the scientific community, evolution is accepted as fact and efforts to sustain the traditional view are almost universally regarded as pseudoscience. While the controversy has a long history, today it has retreated to be mainly over what constitutes good science education, with the politics of creationism primarily focusing on the teaching of creationism in public education.
Intelligent Design Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as “an evidence-based scientific theory about life’s origins”. Proponents claim that “certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural...
World Wide Corruption By Scientific Materialism Scientific materialism, though it does not theoretically deny the existence of truths outside the visible world, holds that anything immaterial cannot be known, not that it is not known to us. Materialism was born in the West in the middle of the 18th century....
Darwinism And Altruism, Is There A Problem? This article covers the relationship between Darwinism and altruism. In Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest, those individuals best adapted to their environments are most likely to live another day and are therefore more likely to reproduce. Consequently, the fittest individuals...
Darwin’s Black Box Your book “Darwin’s Black Box” has been chosen as one of the most important 100 books of the 20th century by National Review magazine. In your opinion, what was it that made this book so important? Over since the publication of On the Origin of Species by...
A Mathematician’s View Of Darwinian Evolution A Mathematician’s View of Darwinian Evolution: How Natural Selection Fails to Design The theory of evolution, originally based on the ideas of Darwin, proposes an explanation for life on earth. In this theory there is no place for an intelligent Designer. The sole mechanism...
The Myth Collapses: The Theory Of Evolution This article approaches the theory of evolution as a myth. An embarrassing fabrication of evolutionists: The reconstruction of Piltdown man from the chin of an orangutan and a man’s skull. In the West, the theory of evolution continues to be promoted as if...
Privileging Evolution Theory In Schools This article covers the reason for privileging evolution theory in schools. Evolution is seen as the only scientific explanation of how life began and developed on earth. Creation, by contrast, is regarded as only a religious belief and therefore as unscientific. The theory of evolution,...
Social Impacts Of The Theory Of Evolution This article covers the social impacts of the theory of evolution. Social Darwinism refers to the attempts to utilize the evolutionary theory of Darwin to give descriptions of society or prescriptions for its best constitution. According to that theory, there is a struggle...
Evaluating The Theory Of Evolution Alterations to the theory of evolution over the last 250 years imply that as science progresses, it does not support the theory but rather changes or at least modifies it. The word “evolution“ comes from the Latin verb volvere, meaning “to roll, wind, turn around,...
Evolution: A Theory In Crisis Evolution: A Theory in Crisis is a 1985 book by Michael Denton, in which the author argues that the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection is a “theory in crisis”. Reviews by scientists say that the book distorts and misrepresents evolutionary theory and contains numerous...
The Creation Process: An Engineer’s Perspective This article covers The Creation Process from an engineer’s perspective. Engineers are mainly responsible for the highly regarded inventions of the last centuries that have made our daily lives easier. Nobody can deny the advantages of such technological wonders as planes, cars, television, etc.,...
Perfection And Primitiveness This article covers the relationship between perfection and primitiveness. One of the assertions of the Darwinian theory of evolution is that there is a perfection or structural and functional development in the animal kingdom from invertebrates to vertebrates, from fish to mammals, from mice to monkeys. According...
Biological Change This article covers the relationship between the theory of evolution and biological change. One argument advanced by those who accept (or, rather, who believe) the theory of evolution against those who believe in creation is this: ‘We put forward certain concepts related to evolution, right or wrong, for...
Change Or Choice: Is the Universe An Accident? This article covers the answer to the question: “Change or Choice: is the Universe an Accident?“ Our understanding of the genesis and evolution of the universe is one of the great achievements of 20th century science. The knowledge upon which it is...
Creation Definition Like other words of the same ending, the term creation (Latin creatio) signifies both an action and the object or effect thereof. Thus, in the latter sense, we speak of the “kingdoms of creation”, “the whole creation”, and so on. In the former sense the word sometimes stands for...
Creationism Explained Creationism (Latin creatio) can be defined as the following points: (1) In the widest sense, the doctrine that the material of the universe was created by God out of no pre-existing subject. It is thus opposed to all forms of Pantheism. (2) Less widely, the doctrine that the various species of living beings were immediately and directly created or...
Creationism Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious positions opposed to modern materialistic views of the origin of the Earth and of living things. In a different and much older sense, creationism is a particular theological position on the origin of the human soul. Both senses are described here. In the first sense, creationism...
Mormon Views On Evolution This article covers Mormon views on evolution. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) takes no official position on whether or not biological evolution has occurred, nor on the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis as a scientific theory. In the 20th century, the First Presidency of the LDS Church published...
Evidence Of Evolution In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally any of an available body of facts or information that supports the theory of evolution. Complications arise because several different meanings are associated with “Evolution.” In a broad sense, “evolution” refers simply to any heritable change in a population of...
Evolutionism Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution has progressed. In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis). The teleological belief went on to...
