What Would Darwin Say?

Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer-winning novelist who has graced us with her essays found in The Death of Adam. Robinson gives the read the feeling of being much more educated than he or she really is. These essays provide readers with different ways of discussing history, religion and society. They, although difficult to comprehend at times, are flawlessly argued and, throughout, are grounded in universal human experience. When reading them, it is hard not to be persuaded, especially if reading them with an open mind.

“What Darwin Never Knew” is a documentary film produced by NOVA. This documentary film basically talks about the life of the man behind the theory of evolution by means of natural selection – Charles Darwin and the basis of the stunning diversity of animal species on Earth. According to Darwin's tree of life, there are 9000 birds' species, 350,000 species of beetles, 28, 000 kinds of fish – totalling to a count of 2,000,000 living species, human beings included. Based from this numerical information, Darwin was fascinated to determine why there is a very large variety of animal species on Earth. So, besides from his life story, the film also discussed about the theory he postulated back in 1859, “The

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species caused problems for the church; proposed that humans had evolved from lower forms of

The Japanese attack on Darwin on the 19th February 1942, did not happen by chance but from the work of a major contributing factor leading to various consequences and eventually cementing the event as a significant one.

The above quote seems a joke but spoken by a man that arose and escalated war of words and theories on the origin of life. Considering that his view directly rejected the religious views of countless people. Darwin claims leans on scientific explanation that can provide proves, hence claims that the idea that God Created species could not be proved. The minor catch here is that the Christian faith explanation of the birth of species is clearly written but requires faith which is defined as believing without seeing. It makes me question if Darwin once held a religious view, because one must have attempted to get understand a concept before one can claim that the concept has truth nor simply a lie. I am sure Darwin has attempted to study it before he decided to reject it and studied creation.

Charles Darwin is becoming one of the most famous scientists of this century. He has a theory that we as humans have evolved from a single celled organism to what we are now after billions of years. He has been studying aps for many years and he says they are extremely similar to humans like in their behavior if treated unfairly they will get mad. They can even do some easy tasks like give a rock to a person and they get food. As said in his famous quote “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Darwin’s theory of natural selection permits adaptation by natural means instead of divine intervention. The Theory of Intelligent Design uses methods used by other sciences to explain that the universe and living things were created by an intelligent cause, not a random process such as natural selection. As Wilson (2005) stated “Many, who accept the fact of evolution cannot, however, on religious grounds, accept the operation of blind chance and the absence of divine

Darwin’s “one long argument” was with theologian William Paley. Paley’s view was Intelligent Design; the correlation of the works of god and the words of god. Darwin’s

Since time immemorial man has always questioned the origins of life and himself . The answer to that question as there are three alternatives , namely the creation , transformation , or evolutionary biology .

He did not know that DNA does not stay the same and that mutations change DNA. Evolution is discovered by the comparing of genes. Similarly, Darwin did not understand dark matter, a concept still hard to grasp today. Otherwise, one other major contributing point is switches in DNA. “Switches are very powerful parts of D.N.A., because they allow animals to use genes in one place and not another; at one time, and not another” (What Darwin Never Knew). Darwin was born in the 1800’s, whereas it was not until the 1950’s that Watson and Crick began to decipher DNA’s structure. Darwin’s claims still hold true, but DNA takes evolution one step forward. Darwin’s ideology and today’s knowledge of DNA work hand in hand to ensure the development and understanding of evolution.

“As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. “ - Francis P. Yockey

In 1895 Charles Darwin published a book describing his theory of evolution, and his theory of the natural selection process. This theory caused much uproar in the religious community because Darwin’s theory went against the story of creation portrayed in the Holy Bible. His theory claimed that all life currently in place had evolved and adapted from a single organism in the beginning. Over time and by process of natural selection only the dominant species were left over while the other, less dominant species, went extinct. His theory, backed by scientific analysis, had dismissed the idea of a single deity creating all life on Earth. It is not like Darwin had a personal agenda against religion or anything,

After the long five year voyage, Charles Darwin published his book, “The Voyage of the Beagle” in 1839 which showed his findings and observations while on the expedition. He would later publish a total of twenty-five books in his lifetime about the field of science. His ideas and theories were criticized by creationists who his ideas disproved and contradicted their belief of Creationism, or “the belief that the universe and the various forms of life were created by God out of nothing. It is a response to modern evolutionary theory, which explains the emergence and diversity of life without recourse to the doctrine of God or any other divine power” (Britannica.com 1). He would still, however, believe in his work until his death on April 19, 1882. By then, people have already accepted his ideas on evolution and natural selection, which would become to be known as

     Darwin’s Theories upset the church, one of the things that he proposed was that all living things may have descended from the same species. Today it is believed that life may have started as replicating molecules. Darwin introduced the idea that life is not just evolving but the earth is also changing. This went against creationism, the Bible says that god created the world and all the animals. It also separated man from the animals because god created man in

The ongoing scientific investigation of how exactly evolution occurred and continues to occur has been an argumentative idea amongst society since Darwin first articulated it over a century ago. The scientific basis of evolution accounts for happenings that are also essential concerns of religion; both religion and science focus on the origins of humans and of biological diversity. For instance, in the reading “Truth Cannot Contradict Truth,” Pope John Paul II, addressing the Pontifical Academy of Science, discussed the matter of God as creator of man. The Pope explains that men cannot relate to animals because men are superior. The reasoning for that is because God created humans under his likeness. What the church is saying about mankind