The search for myself - Part II
So the big question is whether we are intelligent creatures made by god himself (or herself) destined to rule over the planet and over all other forms of life on it OR are we the result of a hundred million years of evolution ? Charles Darvin first raised this question in his famous theory of evolution and immediately created a furor in the church at the times. It was an established fact that humans were superior to any other form of life and it was so because the human race had been 'designed' by God in his own image, made specifically to possess the unique powers of thought and the ability to articulate and perform tasks. Nobody was prepared to accept that our race could have evolved from some sad unicellular organism. So are we really the products of natural selection through millions of years?
The reason Darvin's theories shook up the whole of Christianity was not because he had put forward a new theory of which nobody had ever thought of before but because it implicitly questioned the function of God and indeed the existence of God itself. After all if we evolved over the centuries from one organism to the next then what role did God have to play in making us. Surely the story of God 'creating' man on the nth day of creation and the story of Adam and Eve were pooptalk. Today, it is sufficiently well established that Homo Sapiens are indeed the product of a very long and complicated evolution chain that might have gone through creatures resembling chimpanzees, some sort of amphibians and it all probably started as unicellular organisms in the ocean. For some people, the question of whether or not we are the result of evolution is an important factor in deciding the personal viewpoints about the existence or non-existence of god. Therefore, for them the question: "Does God exist?" translates to "Is the theory of evolution wrong?" But does the theory of evolution really preclude the existence of God ? No.
The truth is, it doesn't really matter whether we were 'created' by God in one day or we evolved of millions of years. The time span of creation is immaterial: Either way we were created. Natural Selection and evolution are more consistent with the logic and mathematics that are the tools of our time.
The reason Darvin's theories shook up the whole of Christianity was not because he had put forward a new theory of which nobody had ever thought of before but because it implicitly questioned the function of God and indeed the existence of God itself. After all if we evolved over the centuries from one organism to the next then what role did God have to play in making us. Surely the story of God 'creating' man on the nth day of creation and the story of Adam and Eve were pooptalk. Today, it is sufficiently well established that Homo Sapiens are indeed the product of a very long and complicated evolution chain that might have gone through creatures resembling chimpanzees, some sort of amphibians and it all probably started as unicellular organisms in the ocean. For some people, the question of whether or not we are the result of evolution is an important factor in deciding the personal viewpoints about the existence or non-existence of god. Therefore, for them the question: "Does God exist?" translates to "Is the theory of evolution wrong?" But does the theory of evolution really preclude the existence of God ? No.
The truth is, it doesn't really matter whether we were 'created' by God in one day or we evolved of millions of years. The time span of creation is immaterial: Either way we were created. Natural Selection and evolution are more consistent with the logic and mathematics that are the tools of our time.
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