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The Evolution Of The Human Race

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Faith Vs. Fact The universe is a vast and endless portal of knowledge and experience whose origin and creation is not fully proven. There are two ideologies that the human race has adopted into giving reason for our existence as well as our evolution; this being, religion, and science. Science and religion have been in a conflicting battle against each other in discovering truth about the universe and their main ideas disregard the other making them ultimately incompatible. Throughout history this conflict has been proven through, Galileo’s sentence of house arrest in 1632 over his claim of a sun-centered solar system, to the more recent Scopes “Monkey Trial,” in 1925; that lead to the great debate between Darrow and Jennings Bryan over the teaching of evolution in schools,”(Coyne beginning). Not all religions primarily focus on the dismissing of scientific notions of truth and the opposition to science, and this is where “accomodationism,” is introduced. That said, it is a belief by those that think that there can be a compromise between two opposing perspectives, and in this case it being science and religion and both contributing to the theory of evolution. Jerry A. Coyne is an evolutionary biologist that has made claims that science and religion will never be able to have compatibility, but views not that “religion and science have always been implacable enemies, with the former always hindering the latter. Instead, he sees them as making overlapping claims , each

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