Virgina Woolf
Pick an animal. For our immediate purposes, we'll use the polar bear. Did God or any other supreme being just snap his fingers, wave a magic wand, and a polar bear was instantly created? Or has the polar bear evolved from tiny organisms that have existed since the beginning of time? I don't know the answer to that question, no one does, but let's bring in the perspectives of two enormously different writers. Take Max Weber for instance, the writer of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." Weber is a man who builds his arguments on the church, so it's not difficult to conclude that he would argue in favor of God creating the universe and all which inhibits it. On the other side, we have Charles Darwin, writer of "Origin of Species", a scientific guru of epic proportions. To this day, no one has brought forth a stronger scientific argument surrounding creation than the great scientist. Now despite their obvious differences, one aspect in each of the two's arguments lies abundantly clear: all beings, whether man or beast, are products of their own environment. We'll start with Darwin's outlook, and lets go back to the polar bear. Now, one of the main themes in Darwin's book lies in
life. Or we forget how their eggs or nestlings are destroyed by birds or beasts of prey" (38). This process of adaptation coined Darwin to characterize all beings as fighters in a competition, his general idea is known as survival of the fittest. "This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or Survival of the Fittest. (44)" This statement although it is general, gives the reader an idea of the point in which Darwin is trying to make; every organism fights with nature to survive, and reproduce. Only the strong and "fit" are able to complete that task, and the others are annihilated. Darwin states:
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Approximate Word count = 1221
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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