by A Jarman

Created on: September 27, 2008

Creationism vs. Natural Selection

I believe in both creationism and evolution. No one can deny that evolution/natural selection occurs in our world to some extent. It's a fact that the overproduction of a species, a species' struggle for existence, and the variation of individuals within the species all inescapably cause unequal reproductive success. This, in turn, results in adaptation, also known as natural selection. I do not, however, believe that evolution is how man, or other living organisms originated.

The First Presidency of The Church of Jeses Christ of Latter-day Saints released the following statement as a response to evolution in 1909:
""God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." In these plain and pointed words the inspired author of the book of Genesis made known to the world the truth concerning the origin of the human family. Moses, the prophet-historian"learned," as we are told, "in all the wisdom of the Egyptians"when making this important announcement was not voicing a mere opinion, a theory derived from his researches into the occult lore of that ancient people. He was speaking as the mouthpiece of God, and his solemn declaration was for all time and for all people." (The First Presidency of the Church, From Improvement Era, Nov. 1909, 7581)

I like the point that William Jennings Bryan, former United States Secretary of State made in response to The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
"[H]ow does the evolutionist explain the eye when he leaves God out? The evolutionist guesses that there was a time when eyes were unknown. And since the eye is a universal possession among living things the evolutionist guesses that it came into being not by design or by act of God but just happened, and how did it happen? A piece of pigment, or, as some say, a freckle appeared upon the skin of an animal that had no eyes. This piece of pigment or freckle converged the rays of the sun upon that spot and when the little animal felt the heat on that spot it turned the spot to the sun to get more heat. The increased heat irritated the skin so the evolutionists guess, and a nerve came there and out of the nerve came the eye! But this only accounts for one eye; there must have been another piece of pigment or freckle soon afterward and just in the right place in order to give the animal two eyes. And, according to the evolutionist, there was a time when animals had no legs, and so the leg came by accident.

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