In the Eyes of Darwin is Creationism Friend or Foe? The relationship between science and religion have always awaken interest amongst those who posses powerful religious worldviews and what they belief to be true about God. People are influenced by religious views for example on how the world was created, questions about the universe we live in, what is morally correct, and political views. Then comes the approach of science where many famous thinkers, scientist, and philosophers have changed the perspectives of many. Science takes the approach where they reject the idea of creationism to recoil back to creationists who reject the idea of evolution. Therefore scientists support the idea that the universe came to be with the big bang theory
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Religions are very diverse. While it is common for religions to identify the origin of the universe with creationism it isn’t the only idea. The truth is that the church itself did support the idea of evolution. They support the idea of evolution more now than in the past. In the reading by Carl Zimmer, Evolution The Triumph of an Idea he states “Like their European counterpart, most American scientists accepted evolution by the end of the 1800s, although some of them had their doubts about the particular of natural selection… As far as historians can tell, reading Darwin caused none of them to give up their religion.” (383) This quote states how these two etiologies both science and religion can be considered two views and even be linked together as one. The truth is that both religion and science are similar because both have historical traditions that exhibit development over time. There are people who are religious but are all for science. In public schools textbooks contain very little biblical content yet they contain creationist interpretations for classic evidence found in standard textbooks supporting evolution. (Zimmer 398) In this reading by Carl Zimmer’s, What about God? he poses valuable arguments and argues for evolution. For example, in this quote he states, “Yet science, whether it takes the form of chemistry, physics, or evolutionary biology, can explain only the law like regularities of the world.”(392) Here Phillip Johnson an outspoken creationist goes on to argue that science as much as religion only can explain so much and if one thinks about it they are both
Religions are very diverse. While it is common for religions to identify the origin of the universe with creationism it isn’t the only idea. The truth is that the church itself did support the idea of evolution. They support the idea of evolution more now than in the past. In the reading by Carl Zimmer, Evolution The Triumph of an Idea he states “Like their European counterpart, most American scientists accepted evolution by the end of the 1800s, although some of them had their doubts about the particular of natural selection… As far as historians can tell, reading Darwin caused none of them to give up their religion.” (383) This quote states how these two etiologies both science and religion can be considered two views and even be linked together as one. The truth is that both religion and science are similar because both have historical traditions that exhibit development over time. There are people who are religious but are all for science. In public schools textbooks contain very little biblical content yet they contain creationist interpretations for classic evidence found in standard textbooks supporting evolution. (Zimmer 398) In this reading by Carl Zimmer’s, What about God? he poses valuable arguments and argues for evolution. For example, in this quote he states, “Yet science, whether it takes the form of chemistry, physics, or evolutionary biology, can explain only the law like regularities of the world.”(392) Here Phillip Johnson an outspoken creationist goes on to argue that science as much as religion only can explain so much and if one thinks about it they are both