Argument Between Science and Religion

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Why would educated, reasonable people believe in one side of an argument when the majority of the evidence points to the other? The argument between science and religion began with Charles Darwin publishing Origin of the Species, and since then, is still a conflict, because every individual questions: Where do people come from? Where does the earth come from? The universe? Not only Charles Darwin, but many scientist who followed Charles Darwin as a paragon of evolution, found evidence and answers to argue that evolution is the more reasonable theory in the question of: Where did everything come from? This paper focuses on a traditional Creationist theory as described in the Genesis story of creation in the Hebrew Bible.
Evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organism are thought to have developed from earlier forms during the history of earth. Evolutionists think that life started from single celled organism, then those involved into complex celled organism, changing over time, because of the changing environment, into animals. So evolution over a very long period of time can result in the development of new variations and species.

Creationists believe that in the concept and design of living organism, a creator is needed. Creationists think that organism can adapt to their environment, but do not change so that over time they become a completely different organism then what they were created as.

Evolution is the only reasonable theory of them two considering what evidence has been found. This essay will explain in a chronological structure why, by exanimate four major creation arguments, the creation theory is not as reasonable as the evolution theory, based on evidence.

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