Are you evolutionist?

India
March 4, 2009 1:01pm CST
We have just celebrated Darwin recently. The theory propagated by Charles Darwin changed the thinking of human beings for ever. It was also a blow on the blind religious institutions. Now again there seems to be a movement going on which is termed as creationists. It says that the creation of human is specially crafted by some superpower seeing the complexities in its structure. Whom you support?
3 responses
@valpopa (154)
• Italy
2 Apr 09
As a scientist I'de say Darwinism is quite straight forward and does apply to all living species therefore it's got to be true. On the other hand, creationism seems quite eloquent but has no proof. Darwinisim and creationism (that's how it is called right?) are both theories, just like the fact that humankind derives from a population from outer space. I;ve heard people saying the Arc itself refers to an alien spacecraft that brought us here.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
5 Mar 09
I'm not sure of what I am... as much as evolution is understandable, I believe there is spirituality too. I think it is a balance of both and they go hand in hand. What about you?
@Zephier (73)
• United States
4 Mar 09
I disagree with most of what you said concerning Darwin and how you believe he "changed the thinking of human being forever". I'm sure there were people with ideas similar to his long before he was even known or even born. As for being a "blow to blind religious institutions"...think about what you said for a second. You're defining Darwinism to, first off, be the way of belief to knock out religion. Instead of defining what Darwinism is you instead see it as a way to take out religion from society and replace it with the beliefs of one man propagated by a scientific community who's also blind in a way. Most Christians tend to believe that both evolution, to an extent, and Creationism go hand in hand. Which is what i believe. Christianity's (and religion in general's) beliefs were crafted over thousands of years. To put the introductory thoughts of Darwin on the same level as the depth of religion is kind of narrow-sighted. Darwin's way was as much of social experiment as it was a genetic exploration of where we've come from. Yet it's not much more than that. Creationism and Christianity, on the other hand, is about where we've come from, why we're here and that it's for a reason, recognition that we have worth as humans. Christianity's beliefs and those of creationism stretch beyond the scope of Darwin's earth-limited system of beliefs. Darwinism has no emotion attached to it. Sure, Christianity and religion has been known to be at the center of horrible events. But that is the human condition and not the word of the religion. Creationism is just a part of belief system of Christianity that is meant to be for the better of humanity and the Bible is the guide; not the hand-holder. In the end, it's about the individual. How hard is that to understand? Christianity has given worth to people's lives, saved people from self-destruction and all-around has done a lot of positive in the world. Religion has been the main reason why worldwide society has reached to the heights of where it is today. Charles Darwin and Darwinism is just a little speck of a system lacking emotional substance. It's fine to believe in Darwinism. But then what? There's nothing to expect from it and that's why those who "believe" in it and nothing else go out and attack other's beliefs. Because they have no, when it's all said and done, beliefs of their own to stand for.