Creation Vs. Evolution
Creation versus evolution is the study of Cosmogony. The questions "How did we get here?" and "How was the universe created?" has been one that has puzzled mankind from the beginning of time. Dramatically, 20th century science made this compelling discovery: the universe had a beginning. It suddenly began! This discovery has caused much contention. Why and how did it begin? How did we come to be? Two models have been argued: creation and evolution. Let us look at these two models and let us determine for ourselves which model is correct.Evolution is "an unpredictable and natural process of temporal descent with genetic modification that is affected by natural selection, chance, historical contingencies and changing environments." Evolution can also be defined as the accumulation of inherited changes with populations over time. Evolution does not refer to changes that occur in an individual within its lifetime. Instead, evolution refers to changes in the characteristics of populations over the course of generations. These changes might be so small or so great that it would allow that population to be different from the ancestral population. Eventually the two populations will become so different that each one will become
a different species. Evolution has two main perspectives: microevolution and macroevolution. Let us look a little closer at these two perspectives of evolution. We frequently hear that belief in evolution is "scientific" while belief in creation is "faith". However, we have seen that this is not true. Creationists acknowledge that variation caused by natural selection is a proven fact. But once we get beyond this, there is much about evolution that requires great faith, for example, believing that dead chemicals became living on their own, while the evidence for creation is in accord with all scientific facts, especially the broad principles of thermodynamics and information theory. There is good reason to believe that the creation and a global flood took place exactly as described in Genesis. Ultimately, evolution is man's attempt to eliminate the need for God, and thereby His rule over us. If there is no God, something like evolution should be true. However, the obvious complexity and design of the creation shows otherwise. Let us remember that "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made" (John 1:3, NIV). The concept of evolution is believed to be the cornerstone of biology because it links all fields of the sciences into a uniformed body of information. The evolutionary geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky stated, "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Evolution allows biologists to compare commonalities among organisms. Evolution is believed to also have important practical applications in agriculture, medicine, conservation biology, bioremediation and even in computers. Agriculture must deal with the evolution of pesticide resistance in insects and other pests. Medicine must respond to the rapid evolutionary potential of disease-causing organisms. The conservation management of rare and endangered species makes use of the evolutionary principles of population genetics. The rapid evolution of bacteria and fungi in polluted areas is used in the field of bioremediation. Evolution even applies to computers, which makes use of the algorithms that imitate natural se
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