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Can God and Darwinism coexist?

Darwin wondered about that himself as he conducted his work. In fact, he waited 20 years before publishing Origins of Species because he knew how it would upset the established thinking on life on earth and how it would affect his relationship with his wife, a devote Christian.

It has never really been made clear whether Darwin was an agnostic or atheist. It is very clear that he was a naturalist: a man who needed to understand the world around him. This isn't very different from what is supposed to be the fundamental God - follower relationship.

We are supposed to question God. He expects it of us. Jesus, speaking to the people said, ask and it will be given to you. Darwin asked. He got an answer.

Perhaps the most difficult issue with Creationism vs. Evolution is what people have been taught vs. what they are willing to accept. There was, in the infancy of evolutionary thought, a level of "ignorance" that couldn't be helped.

Consider this, however. Evolution became the benchmark for the biological sciences because of a religious man! Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk working in his garden during the 1860s asked some of the same questions Darwin eventually did. "What makes the peas I plant sprout and have differences in them?" "Why are some pods green and others yellow; why some peas smooth and other wrinkled?" "How did this come to be and can I control this behavior in the plants?

Yes. Yet, Mendel's work was lost for a while to scientists. When found, however, the basic truths he learned about traits in those peas made sense to Darwin and his peers. Something was responsible for the change in a species of plants or animals. Something was happening that was "bigger" than they could conceive.

Watson and Crick figured out what this "something" was. DNA. DNA the great master of genetic codes; the molecular marvel that could mutate, adapt, change.... EVOLVE.

What those who question evolution's place at the end of the religious rainbow don't grasp is... when you get to the molecular level with living organisms, no matter how small or large they may be, not matter how exotic or ordinary they may appear, they all have DNA. The DNA they all have has a common source. That common source, if you delve deep enough, can be traced to something "bigger" than us getting the party started.

Can God and Darwinism coexist? Did I just write this article? Think it through. Of course they can, they HAVE to, if you truly want to be in awe of the power of the "intelligent designer", the "creator", the "omnipotent, omnipresent one".

Awe inspiring doesn't even begin to describe the notion.

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