Since the dawn of human awareness, we have wondered how we have come to exist and for what purpose, yet no theory thus far has even been agreed upon, let alone proven. Philosophers, theologians, and scientists have argued back and forth about our origin for centuries, producing copious quantities of literature, and it continues to this day. The justification for my beliefs on the issue which am to present here may simply come to be seen as another log to throw on the growing stack, but I am inclined to think that it will have new merit since I will be attempting to appeal to both believers in faith, and to those who feel that Darwin said it all.

I must begin by stating the simple truth that the majority of people in America to date have little to no religious beliefs or practices, and there are reasons for it. First, the infestation of media in our culture has led to extremely distorted yet widely held stereo types of every kind of religion which keep people from finding any reason to investigate the true details of any particular one for themselves. This effects a second and more important reason which is that public schools are required to teach the theory of evolution-the th

Next, I must discuss the bible. There are many misconceptions about the book which is said to be the word of God, mostly a result of the easily acceptable stereotypes and the fact that few who criticize it have read it. The main problem here is the attempt to fit the bible's story of creation with pieces of the evolution theory. Some would say that the exact meanings and uses of the words in the bible are inaccurate in describing anything like evolution, but I disagree. We must not forget that God hasn't allegedly spoken to us humans in thousands of years (for reasons we shouldn't think ourselves capable of speculating). The people who were spoken to then did not have much of a scientific outlook on things so I think it is highly likely that God put things into terms that his people would understand at the time with the possibility of shifting interpretations through changing times. Until God speaks again, we are forced to go off of what we have, and even then, we must take into account the document we are dealing with. It is thousands of years old; much of its earlier history in times when record keeping was far from accurate. Also, it's been translated through handfuls of languages, some so rare that only a few scholars at the Vatican can still decipher them and it would be foolish to not realize that they may alter facts and keep secrets to defend the power they have. The point is that we may not know the book like we think we do.

My first point is to argue the contrary; religion can coexist with evolution. A recent study done into the actual evidence which supports the theory shows that though the theory of evolution does show trends in evolutionary stages, at the present time there are no known fossil records which can connect any one major stage directly to another. Also the amount of change between these major stages would have required far more time then was possible and the amount of fossils present should be plentiful for not just one transition, but all of them, however none have been found. The findings for this study were taken only from direct anti-religious evolutionists. It is very apparent that there gapping holes in the theory, something readily admitted by spe

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