The Influence Of Evolution

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Monkeys, birds, and fish have similarities to humans by how their skeleton is built, but that doesn’t mean they are our ancestors. Darwin needed evolution as a reason to live, so he created something that he believed was real. Evolution has been something that nonreligious people have made up to follow, but there isn’t actual written proof that it ever happened. Some scientists have disproved it; the Bible is completely against it and in mythology it links back to the Bible.

There are so many useful ways to use science. It helps people invent day-to-day objects that can change the world, but it isn’t only used for inventing objects. Atheists don’t have a religion to follow so they use science as their religion. Charles Darwin, the inventor of evolution, was once a believer in Christianity. Darwin had a daughter who he deeply loved, but sadly she died at the age of ten. “The little belief that he had left of Christianity was lost” (Glick 1). Since Darwin needed something to believe in, he made his own belief known as evolution. Darwin started an experiment with pigeons and plants. The experiment was to take them
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In mythology it doesn’t talk about how a lizard grew into a dinosaur or how humans evolved from apes. There are other stories in mythology, which vaguely state that evolution is real. Have you ever thought to yourself: if evolution were real, then wouldn’t it still be happening? As it was stated before people during the time period of Adam and Eve were massive and since that time people have gotten fatter, shorter, and more stupid. Plants and animals are changing by genetic modification, which is clearly not evolution. Evolutionists say God isn’t real and the world started by and explosion in the universe. If the explosion were real how would there of been any form of species. Even if the species that were on earth started off being a little tiny embryo. How did they get

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