The Preposterous Debate Between Creationism and Evolution

 Around 60% of Americans accept the theory of evolution as the most reasonable explanation for observable biodiversity. About 33% reject this theory, believing instead that everything was created exactly as it is and has never changed. Now, let’s take a look at these two conflicting views of the world, starting with creationism.

This is the idea that some character referred to as “god” in Xian mythology made everything, one thing right after another, exactly as they are now. He is said to have accomplished this feat in six days and then took a day off.

There is absolutely zero evidence of any of this. No “first humans” anywhere in the fossil record, or any proof there was a garden as described in the book. The book itself doesn’t reference any of the denizens of Earth during the hundreds of millions of years prior to man’s emergence.

The theory of evolution is that organisms change over time due to environmental or internal pressures.

There are literal mountains of evidence supporting this theory, to the point where it has ceased to be a hypothesis and has been proven over and over again in multiple experiments and become a theory. (Before you try to argue the whole “it’s just a theory” thing: A “theory” in the scientific sense means a hypothesis that has been subject to testing and experimentation that shows it is the best possible explanation for an observable phenomenon. Hence the “theory of gravity.”) Evolution can be observed in real time in simple organisms like bacteria and short-lived insects like fruit flies. There is no reason to believe it only happens in small organisms when the same pressures affect all life on Earth.

The ignorant will claim that we have seen no “transitional fossils.” This is incorrect; all fossils are transitional, an organism that has changed from something else and is changing into something else. Researchers can study fossils and see when our brains started to develop, when our jawbones changed when our diet did, when we became bipedal and why. These are all transitional fossils. It is actually pretty amazing that we have as many fossils as we do, since it takes a lot of very specific conditions to preserve bones as fossils. But what we have seen just reinforces the idea that humans share a distant ancestor with other primates.

No amount of bible-thumping will prove otherwise.