A.J.+Week+7

There is now a new argument against the idea of evolution. This idea is being disputed as a purely scientific idea, but many believe it to be another ploy by the church to disprove the theory of evolution. This new group call themselves creationists. They believe that god created the more complex things in nature. This group believes that humans are far too complex to have developed from a single celled organize. They say that each component of the human body must have been prefabricated by one ultimate being. These creationists say there evolution doesn’t explain how chimps are related to humans, yet this is exactly what evolution does clarify how this is true. Creationists may be just ignorant people who passed judgment before laying the facts straight. “ They claim that the existence of life, the appearance of new species, and, most especially, the origins of mankind have not and cannot be explained by evolution or any other natural process. By denying the self-sufficiency of nature, they look for God (or at least a "designer") in the deficiencies of science. The trouble is that science, given enough time, generally explains even the most baffling things. As a matter of strategy, creationists would be well-advised to avoid telling scientists what they will never be able to figure out. History is against them. In a general way, we really do understand how nature works.”(Miller) This statement supports exactly what I am saying about creationists. They want to believe in something that is totally disproven by another widely accepted theory that has yet to be disproven.

I like how Miller places religion in relation to evolution. “ E ach of the great Western monotheistic traditions sees God as truth, love, and knowledge. This should mean that each and every increase in our understanding of the natural world is a step toward God and not, as many people assume, a step away. If faith and reason are both gifts from God, then they should play complementary, not conflicting, roles in our struggle to understand the world around us. As a scientist and as a Christian, that is exactly what I believe. True knowledge comes only from a combination of faith and reason.”(Miller) God is supposed to be the one that is all knowing, so any time we advance our knowledge wouldn’t that bring us closer to God? This debate is not a simple one because there will always be those that strictly believe in the bible and follow it down to the last word. Even with all of the indisputable evidence in the world, some people won’t begin to believe. I wish that everyone would learn of evolution because it makes sense if people just understood how it works. Many people don’t understand the scale that we are working on to eventually show the evolution to where we are as humans. In the grand scheme of things humans are but a grain of sand on a beach. The time that has occurred would allow for the subtle changes over thousands of generations with the best adapted to the environment living on. If all creationists were to learn these facts then they would revise their beliefs. 