The Human Race
The difference between evolution and creation.
According to Charles Darwin, evolution came about the course of natural selection. But he also pointed out the such a notion is one long argument. But variations within a species are indistinguishable at first, but gradually may develop into differences that can restrict one groups range or ability to obtain food, or escape from predators. But the fitness of the species is modified by several different processes. For example, sexual selection may occur when the males of one population may compete for mates. Some of the males may have a better advantage of having better weapons, more energy, or more beautiful song or plumage.
Within the laws of variation, reproductive “chance” creates variations. When the condition of the species alter, those individuals that survive to reproduce may have beneficial modifications – organs or limbs that have become stronger or more useful, or else, when not needed weaken and diminish. Darwin’s observations led him to believe that the species did adapt to their changing surroundings.
According to science, human evolution is a lengthy process of change by which humans originated from apelike creatures. Behavioral and physical traits shared by all people evolved over a period of five million years. The ability to walk on two legs took a little less time about four thousand. However, a large brain, the capacity for language, and the ability to use tools came more recently.
Most scientists has distinguished 10 – 15 species of early humans. On the other hand they do not usually agree on how they are related, or which ones died out. Many early human species – probably the majority of them – left no descendants . Other scientists claim that man descended from African apes which took five to eight million years. This figure came from comparing the genes between and apes. Then they calculated how long it “probably” took for the differences to develop. In his book The Neck of the Giraffe, Francis Hitching writes: “I found many scientists with private doubts and a handful who went so far as to say that Darwinian evolutionary theory had turned out not to be a scientific theory at all.”
A highly acclaimed British scientist, Chandra Wickramasinghe, takes a similar position, when he says: “There is no evidence for any of the basic tenets of Darwin evolution. It was a social force that took over the world in 1860, and I think it has been a disaster for science ever since.” Some think that belief in evolution is based upon fact while belief in creation is based upon faith. It is true that no man has seen God. Yet, the theory of evolution holds advantage in this regards, since it is founded upon events that no humans have ever witnessed or duplicated.
Scientists have never observed mutations – even beneficial ones – that produce new life-forms; yet they are sure that this is precisely how new species arrived. They have not witnessed the spontaneous generation of life; yet they insist that this is how life began. Yet with all that information on evolution that is out there, one would wonder. If there is evolution, why do we not see any creature evolving to a higher form?
According to the scriptures God had created man from the earth to live on the earth. Moses wrote: “Jehovah God proceeded to form man out of the dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living ground.” (Genesis 2:7) Notice that the bible does not say that God gave man a soul, It says that after God started the man breathing “the man came to be a living soul.” So the man was a soul, just as a man becomes a doctor is a doctor. As 1 Corinthians 15:45 says, It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Genesis 1:11, 12 says that grass and trees were made to produce each “according to its kind.” Verses 21, 24, and 25 add that God created sea creatures, flying creatures, and land animals, each “according to its kind.” There is no room for one basic kind to evolve or change into another. Regarding man, genesis reports that God said: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.” So he was to have godlike qualities, not traits that were simply a development of those of an beast. Genesis 2:7 adds “Jehovah God proceeded to form man [not out of some preexisting life form but] out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life.” There is no hint of evolution here, but a description of a new creation. As Hebrews 3:4 stated: “every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God.”
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