God & religion or natural selection?

I believe that God created everything. If I am not mistaken, Darwin himself eventually said that the theory of evolution was impossible. What I really can't figure out is how this "theory" ever made it to be taught in schools and colleges as scientific fact. Some preachers seem to think that it was taught as an effort to discredit the Bible. I don't know about that, but I will say that it is a lot harder for me to believe that everything came from some sort of slime in a prehistoric swamp or something like that than it is for me to believe that God was in control. God created everything, I have no doubt about that. I do believe that animals have adapted over time to their environments in order to survive, but I believe God has made this possible. I certainly don't believe it could happen by chance. There would be too much room for error. What we, as humans, have to come to terms with is that we aren't meant to know everything. Some things just have to be left to faith.

Well...with Christianity there is the theory of creation, which dates back to 4000B.C. or so, while Darwinism believes in nature vs. nurture and how the men of early times created men of today through instinctual survival learning techniques. I would have to say I would have to go with the creation part over Darwin's theory. Not that the reason is solely in me being Christian, but also because of the logic. If the world was 64 billion years old, or however old they claim it is we would be so far more technologically advanced then we are now, sure we are advanced now, but hover boards aren't even created yet. While with creation, everything just adds up. If you actually take the time to add up all the generations of Adam, and all of his bloodline, and etc...it is just logically correct.

You can't really call them "opposing theories" when only one of them is a theory, and they both belong to two entirely different mind sets. On one hand you have objectivity and a rational study of the world around us, and on the other you have superstition and a desperation for there to be something "more" than our physical world. There's really no contest if the question is "which is more accurate". Clearly evolution has, and still does occur. We have mountains of evidence for it. As for creationism - well, there's the folklore of many cultures...but which is true? None of them have any real evidence behind them. Most of it is just speculation that piggy backs off of perceived holes in the theory of evolution, or other scientific theories.

I think I would go for Darwinian natural selection. One of the drawbacks of this is that it cannot really predict what courses evolution of a species might take, hence it is not practical as most theories of physics. As of life evolving from the primordial soup, even if there was a one in a hundred billion probability of this happening, if you multiply it with the age of the universe and the number of planets in it, the odds of one planet supporting life isn't all that low. But of course, there is the much easier way out saying that god created everything. This doesn't really leave any room for argument. If the theory is that there was nothing in the beginning and 'poof', everything was there by some godly magic, that just evades any sort of reason, doesn't it? The theory of evolution is based on observations, and even if God really did create life, I believe that it's the study of evolution that will lead to the origin.