Intelligent design

For thousands of years, humans have wondered what controlled their lives and determined their future—was there a god that set out our paths before we were alive, or perhaps were we the only ones to explore the roads of life? Do we control how our existence plays out, or are we played by the hand of luck or a greater power from the start? Authors Malcolm Gladwell and William Ernest Henley toyed with their beliefs on this subject. Gladwell, writer of the short non-fiction titled Outliers: The…

For thousands of years, humans have wondered what controlled their lives and determined their futures—was there a god that set out our paths before we were alive, or perhaps were we the only ones to explore the roads of life? Do we control how our existence is to be played out, or are we played by the hand of luck or a greater power from the start? Authors Malcolm Gladwell and William Ernest Henley toyed with their beliefs on this subject. Gladwell, writer of the short non-fiction titled…

How did an increased interest in theosophy in the 19th century influence the direction of modern art? Theosophy, as a philosophical belief system, can be traced back to ancient times. Through her two part Isis Unveiled (1877), and her theosophical society, Russian Born Mme Helena Blavatsky, a religious mystic, played a huge part in reinstating the dogmas of theosophy into the art world. Isis Unveiled was written during a time of significant change around the globe. In 1859 Charles Darwin…

Biology of Racism After reading “Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real” and “The Surprising Science of Race and Racism,” I’ve come to the conclusion that scientist have not yet proven a way to tell race nor racism by genetics. There have been many studies trying to show that race can be told by testing your blood or measuring the size of a human’s head but there’s no way that can be proven true. According to “Race as Biology is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem is…

over millions of years branching off into different lifeforms of different species. It says that there is no intelligent designer, but everything came to be just by chance and that very same chance created what is viewed today. On the other hand, the theory of creation comes from an idea from an intelligent being that designed this world to function a certain way. It states that some intelligent being created everything we see and feel, now…

Revision Faith vs. Fact: Can Religion and Science Coincide? Evolution. In my case I learned about this concept in elementary school biology, then in middle school, again in high school, and now it is once again reiterated in my college level classes. In the past, the theory of Evolution and the concepts relating to it were just another part of the curriculum I needed to learn in order to get a good grade. It was something that we were taught as basically being fact, a viable explanation as to…

Does it make you uncomfortable when someone says “God isn’t real” or “evolution is completely fake”? What if you were taught these things were fact, and you had to believe them? Creationism is the religious belief that God or some inhuman power created the world. On the other hand, evolution is defined as the genetics of a species changing over time by various means. Neither creationism nor evolution should be taught as factual science and should not be indoctrinated into students, but can be…

Believed in Judeo-Christian version of creationism Believed that the world was created 6000 years ago Believed that God created all living organisms in their current state and that they remained unchanged from their creation. He formalized binomial nomenclature Published Systema Naturae, which by its tenth edition, had identified 4400 species of animals and 7700 species of plants. He thought animals were immutable, but also believed that new species could be created. He believed he was…

Faith and Reason Writing Assignment Faith and reason are not contradictory but complimentary counterparts. Their joint existence can explain natural and religious phenomena where the other cannot. Through this understanding of faith and reason with the themes of the kingdom of God, the scientific method, allegorical exegesis, the Creation museum and the Natural History museum, the genesis 1-3 account may be examined. It is not important for a Christian to possess a literal understanding of…

I aim to explore what is needed in order to be human. Can we turn to science for an answer? Some paleoanthropologists identify the category of the human with the species Homo sapiens, others equate it with the whole genus Homo, some restrict it to the subspecies Homo sapiens, and a few take it to encompass the entire hominin lineage. These differences of opinion are not due to a scarcity of evidence. They are due to the complete absence of what sort of evidence can settle the question of which…