Darwinism Vs Creationism

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As a diverse conglomerate of living, pensive intellectuals, and humans, we live in an ever-changing society that faces conflicts and controversies on a daily basis. Those altercations could last for quite a short time or could span over multiple days, months, years, or even decades. In addition, they might take on a grandiose and visceral importance to the masses, or instead, they may act as a common issue, like interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts. Conflicts of interests are a defining factor of human interactions for as long as history can recall.
Through the process of trial and error and the introduction of counter logic, the human population evolves firmly held thinkings and beliefs, even some that are centuries old. One instance is the solidly debunked theory that the sun revolves around
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the Big Bang and Darwinism theories. Until the 19th and 20th century, people knew almost no information about the scientific beginnings of life, and planetary formation. That was due to little prior scientific breakthroughs paired with core religious beliefs, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, collectively teaching in public schools for centuries that G-d is the sole creator of the universe, fauna, and flora. When astronomers and biologists laid the groundwork for the formation of the Big Bang model and Darwinism that followed observations and publishings by Edwin Hubble and Charles Darwin, respectively, religious individuals, Americans especially, profoundly attempted to discredit and criticize the astronomers, strikingly similar to the public’s outrage following Galileo's conclusions. Multiple courts cases against state boards of education followed with various proponents pressuring for a comprehensive introduction to natural selection, intelligent design, and other theories when taught with

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