In the past it was believed that Evolution and Religion simply couldn’t co-exist as concepts. After all, evolution claims that all life on Earth descends from life. However, religion believes that life was put on this earth, particularly the human race, as a result of a higher power, a God so to speak. Despite their […]
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You’ve made some very valid points that help bridge the gap between science and its former enemy, religion. It will be difficult to convince both staunchly religious people who are firm in creationism as well as scientists who doggedly believe science and religious explanations can never logically correspond.
Hopefully pieces like this will help in creating cohesion between these two views of the origin of life which could lead to a universally accepted explanation for it.
You provide some excellent points for how these two explanations of the origin of human life could be cohesive.
Although there are still many scientists and staunchly religious people who will not accept these valid points because of their blind faith in their respective ideologies.
Hopefully more articles like these will surface and change the mindsets of these people and eventually lead to a unified, universal explanation of human origin.
I’m a current student studying Darwin and discussing the relationship between religion and evolution in class. I’ve been looking all over the internet for material to use in debates and essays. Most of the articles that come up tend to be from the extreme creationists, which provide little to no intelligent argument for creationism. So thank you for providing interesting views with a moderate tone.
I would go further and say that intelligent design and evolution can be merged. Each can help explain the other in terms of origin and the process by which we arrive at the complexity of life and the universe, both macro and micro. The bible is filled with many differing types of literary styles. For example, within the Old Testament alone there are poetic books, songs, wisdom writings, historical accounts, prophetic writings, as well as Laws and codes. It is easy to comprehend how the creation story as told in Genisis was inspired by God to help primitive humanity understand there was a creator and his purpose for creation as well as our own purpose as human beings created in his image. In other words, I beleive it is entirely plausible that God inspired a story of creation using figurative language with very literal meaning for humanity. Of course, this would not prove there is a God anymore than it disproves the notion but it does allow naturalists and believers common ground from which to coexists in harmony.