The Great Debate

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Creationists are not exactly open to other theories of human existence. “The Great Debate,” as many have called it, has been a vivid and intense argument going on for the past century. In the last two hundred years Creation has been the historic and inherent default throughout most of all cultures and religion. Now people are coming together to question and argue how the world and human life originated. The Evolution theory supersedes the Creationism theory because you can’t hear, see, touch, taste, or smell your Creator, you weren’t there when anything happened, and the Bible says god created all living thing in seven day, the Bible says a lot of things. Your Creator, or known by some “the invisible man in the sky,” you can’t hear him, touch

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