Genesis, Charles Darwin and the origin of mankind species
Genesis (In The Beginning? A few facts?)
What is Intelligent Design? It is the belief that Nature/Evolution is a managed process by God within a specific plan.
What is Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution? It is the belief that a process of natural uncontrolled selection allows the strongest species to survive and eventually evolve.
What is DNA? It is Deoxyribonucleic acid can be any of a class of nucleic acids that are imbedded within the chromosomes of the higher organisms of the planet and which store the basic genetic information needed to create a species. A chromosome is a pair of rod like structures which carry genes that occur within the cell nucleus of all developed species of Plant, animal and human life.The building blocks of all life forms on Earth and beyond.
Who was Charles Robert Darwin? (1809-1882) He was an English naturalist who wrote a book published in 1859 called On the origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. This book produced his own theory of evolution i.e.
1 That every living organism re-produced slightly varying organisms to themselves,and:-
2 That a process of natural (un-controlled) selection will only favour the survival of any species that can best adapt to their surroundings. His next assumption.
3 Is that because of these previous elements of creation any new species that arise will eventually widely differ from each other, and their common ancestors.
To you humans the most interesting conclusion of these evolution findings, is that your own species have evolved from the Ape Species.
The theory of evolution written by Mr Darwin would at first seem to conflict with Religious texts such as the Bible. But, it may be as well to also bear in mind, that most religious texts are semi historical documents of events in Time and creation, that were at first written down by Bronze Age human beings for the consumption of human peoples, who had no conception of science, historical creation, or the complex history of Planet Earth.
To single out an example, events such as the eventual evolution of Dinosaurs are thus described simply (as in the case of the Bible book of Genesis written by Moses) as thus:-
"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that have life, and fowl that may fly above the Earth in the open firmament of Heaven.
And God created great Whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the Earth. And the evening and morning were the fifth day.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the Earth after his kind, and it was so."
Of course, to be fair and logical, Moses could not have written about DNA and the specifics of the inter-woven complexities of evolution, what bronze age man would have possibly understood that in the world in which they lived at the Time? But the text does, in its own coded way, endeavour to explain that evolution itself is a real stepping stone entity, created at the dawn of time, by the Spirit of light that divided a Void of Darkness from the light of day. The single big bang theory.
Life is the search for why and how. If humans came from apes, what where were apes insects and dinosaurs descended from? DNA? If so why are all creatures DNA not linked or the same. All life from a pool of chemical water after the Earths crust solidified from molten rock? Why then can this not be recreated today? How can a creature physically evolve to match surroundings? How could bacteria, seeds, grass and trees evolve from the same pool as living creatures. Find all those answers and more before dispelling faith out of hand. Because in the end Faith may be all Humans have left to hold their civilisations together. Unless they can re-create a pool of chemicals to copy all the above on another Planet. In enlightenment terms humanity are all still very much children playing with matches in the dark trying to ascertain what is around them, and what existence means in the home planet Universe and beyond.
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