The Evolution Of Religion: Evolution And The Theory Of Evolution
But miraculously science has prevailed and we have continued to advance. Today science’s greatest challenge is the Theory of Evolution. Since Charles Darwin’s publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 evolution has been challenged time and again. The Theory of Evolution states that all life on this planet, myself, a tree, or a dog, descend from a common ancestor that underwent physical changes through a process called natural selection. This process takes millions of years to occur and directly challenges the book of Genesis and the belief that the Earth is 6,000 years old instead of being 4 billion. In the United States many conservatives deny evolution and some have gone so far as to follow a different philosophy to counter it, creationism. Creationism states that all life was created by a higher power and explains that extinct animals such as the Dinosaurs died in the flood because they did not receive shelter on Noah’s Ark. To be quite frank I personally believe this ideology to be ludicrous, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence in support of evolution that creationism simply doesn’t add