Creationist Vs. Evolution!

This image showcases how most people think of evolution, that it is just one step to the next. That is not how evolution works, and evolution isn't what this picture was trying to explain when it first came out.

Can we please move past this argument? It is like the ridiculous idea that getting your children vaccinated will cause autism. There has been loads of evidence against it, and it is just a cop out so you don't actually have to think.

Evolving a Conversation

A century of turmoil.

A century without peace.

Evolution, at its

core, is simply a

way of explaining

what happened to

all of the extinct

species of animals, and why so many are similar to one another.

On a fundamental level, a creationist is someone who believes in what the bible tells them as absolute truth, which is understandable. Some concepts are difficult to grasp, let alone explain with logic and facts, and this is where religion and spirituality shine. We have yet to explain everything with science, and I don't believe we ever will. In those areas, all we have to rely on is our faith in what ever deity we choose. But science and faith used to go hand in hand. Everyone knows Copernicus,

Galileo, and Issac Newton. But we often forget what their motivation was in their pursuits. Almost every single one of them began their endeavors with a single goal in mind: Prove the church right. Even Darwin was a devout christian, always believing that god was responsible for everything he witnessed. We must understand that such beliefs are at best, substitutes for reality, just as scientists accept that any of their results may be proven false and overturned.

There seems to be a common belief, especially on the internet, that simply because that Evolution is labeled as a "theory" is has no proof behind it. That is a failure of the scientific community to make their ideas and terms adequately assessable to the common person. A scientific theory is an explanation that has a vast amount of evidence to back it up. This is one example of a large problem within the dialog of Creationism V. Evolution. Confusion, lack of effective communication, and a close minded approach to the topic at hand.

The common image of science, that it replaces faith, and to subscribe to one is to exclude the other. This is almost laughable, especially when you realize that this isn't how any science works except pseudoscience (Freud, I'm looking at you).

"...for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations."

-Nikola Tesla

In today's culture, we can communicate better than ever, and yet fail to because we don't like change or to admit we may be wrong, especially not both. But faith is just that, faith. The bible isn't meant to be taken at face value, I mean there is a book called Proverbs. At the same time science can only explain so much, and we need to have both to explain many things.

-Albert

Einstein

It can only be achieved by understanding."

"Peace cannot be kept by force.

In 2014, Pope Francis made a speech, he gives lots of those. In this speech he declared his support of evolution, because despite all the fuss over it since its proposal, he claimed that it did not go against the word in the bible. His logic was that in order for life to evolve, life had to be created in the first place. The biggest single authority on Christianity was able to reconcile his faith and science. Science has let us know what happened back to milliseconds after the Big Bang, but science has yet to explain the origin of life on Earth adequately.

We all have to share this world, so why not share it peacefully, and look toward the future?

"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion."

If the head of the catholic church can find a balance between science and faith, why can't everyone? This debate is about our beliefs, and a false idea that people are trying to take our beliefs away. As humans, we want our kids to grow up in as little conflict as possible. Yet for almost a century now, we have exposed them to the this debate, and shown them that the only way forward is to fight tooth and nail. But one of the hallmark ideas of today is that conflict should be resolved peacefully. I don't know how it will end, but the first step will be to open our minds to possibility, and converse with each other to try to resolve this problem once and for all, to put this behind us so we can move forward.

-Marilyn vos Savant