by Kevin Macdormott

Created on: November 22, 2008   Last Updated: February 01, 2009

Why is this a debate? First, Creationism is an explanation of the beginning of mankind through an overview of God with the words of man. Darwinism is the observance of the change of living creatures in order to adapt to adversity to continue said living.

The idea of God (or Gods) is just that - idea. No matter what religion is viewed, they all have a point of transcendence from the animate or sensual world to a spiritual or invisible one, from man's point of view. In the Western world, we are most familiar with the Judaic based version of One God. What is noticeable above all is that Genesis is written from God's point of view or at least a point of observation of God's actions. Whether this is taken as "absolute truth" or not is really a personal preference. What Genesis does offer though, to the human mentality, is that there was a point throughout eternity when the Earth, with people on it, did not exist. Both systems identify this as an unquestionable reality, no? God made everything first then man / all lesser forms of life had to exist in order to evolve to the better more perfected man. God made man of the earth / we are products of chemical balances that originated (somehow) from the specific variables found on earth.

What is so puzzling? Another point to take into consideration is that Darwin himself did not create Darwinism and, in fact, Darwin was quite Christian. This is evident through his own autobiography. If one pays attention to evolution it is the observance of adaptation over generations not a religion, a science. Who did create Darwinism? The Christian church. Why? Because having new answers to old questions threatens those who have grown powerful on the old answers. That is the cornerstone of authority - power. If past assumptions can be dissolved by solid truths, then it can be viewed that those who had held the power and control did so ignorant to truth and thats embarrassing. By creating Darwinism, the church merely separated the 'people into groups to be managed accordingly.

God and Darwinism cannot coexist because they are different systems of thought, so to just put them into the same basket because we want to is irrelevant. God cannot be compared with science, not only because we do not have a sensory orientated truth of God, but we possess ideas that cannot be observed. Eternity, for instance, cannot be observed, only assumed in this state of existence, a state which has a definable beginning and end. Also, numbers cannot be observed, only represented. Nowhere in the corporeal world does a "2" actually exist, yet we have no doubt of its reality. Darwinism is nothing more than observing truths that already exist, of variable consequences to explain unobserved changes and explain, even predict, current and future consequence as well as unravel past happenings using predetermined physical knowledge.

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