“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth ….” (King James Version, Genesis 1:1). The Bible clearly identifies who created the world and how it was formed. No one knows when the earth was created or what it could have looked like. There are many ideas of what it was like based on what is written in the Bible. Christians believe the Bible, the story of creation, and that God created the world in seven literal days. However, evolutionists continue to believe that there is evidence that the universe and the earth took billions of years to form. Also, that life on the planet has come about by the process of evolution, as proposed by Charles Darwin. Scientists study the results of old processes in the present and try to reconstruct
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He was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the evolutionary theory. Darwin published his theory of evolution that explains biological change with compelling evidence in his book On the Origin of Species, which argued that all species of life have descended from common ancestors, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. The word evolution in the New Lexicon Webster dictionary refers to the change of something over a period of time (“Evolution”). According to James Valentine, “In biology, the theory of evolution is ‘the complex of processes by which living organisms originated on earth and have been diversified and modified through sustained changes in form and function’”(Valentine 1994). Charles Darwin was responsible for developing a theory of evolution that explains biological change. An evolutionist accepts the Darwinian argument that natural selection and environmental factors combine to explain the diversity of life on earth. Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species almost 150 years ago and the debate between science and religion has been a roller coaster ever since (Ker 2007). Darwin proposed that life on earth began hundreds of millions of years ago and was developed by evolution through natural selection (Ker …show more content…
The New Lexicon Webster dictionary describes the word day as the interval of light between two successive nights or the time between sunrise and sunset (“Day”). In contrast to young earth Creationists’ definition of the day, evolutionists believe that the term day may have been different at the time, but young earth Creationists know that it was referring to a twenty-four -hour-span. There is biblical evidence showing the literal twenty-four-hour period. Biblical evidence for this is as
He was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the evolutionary theory. Darwin published his theory of evolution that explains biological change with compelling evidence in his book On the Origin of Species, which argued that all species of life have descended from common ancestors, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. The word evolution in the New Lexicon Webster dictionary refers to the change of something over a period of time (“Evolution”). According to James Valentine, “In biology, the theory of evolution is ‘the complex of processes by which living organisms originated on earth and have been diversified and modified through sustained changes in form and function’”(Valentine 1994). Charles Darwin was responsible for developing a theory of evolution that explains biological change. An evolutionist accepts the Darwinian argument that natural selection and environmental factors combine to explain the diversity of life on earth. Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species almost 150 years ago and the debate between science and religion has been a roller coaster ever since (Ker 2007). Darwin proposed that life on earth began hundreds of millions of years ago and was developed by evolution through natural selection (Ker …show more content…
The New Lexicon Webster dictionary describes the word day as the interval of light between two successive nights or the time between sunrise and sunset (“Day”). In contrast to young earth Creationists’ definition of the day, evolutionists believe that the term day may have been different at the time, but young earth Creationists know that it was referring to a twenty-four -hour-span. There is biblical evidence showing the literal twenty-four-hour period. Biblical evidence for this is as