Evolution or Creationism?

The fossil record for complex multi-cellular life goes back about 550 million years. In those early fossils can be seen all the major groups that make up modern life on the planet and the modifications over time can be traced through the fossils in different rock strata that were laid down over millions of years.

 

Through comparitive DNA relationships between species can be studied, such as that between man and chimpanzees, with which we share 99% similar genetic makeup.

 

You can argue all you want El Pollo Loco, but what is your source of your information? A document that has gone through so many changes over two millenia that it hardly resembles its original form. One that also leaves out most of its original content, only four gospels out of 30 went into the modern form of the bible and its content has been changed many times to reflect the practical needs of the church at the time, not the original message.

 

 

edit: To make that a bit more precise, the morals that a religion teaches tend to be the morals prevalent in the culture in which the religion arose.

 

Religion of course has other aspects that moral teaching.

Even science is the best guess at the current time, with the best information possible. And while it's possible at some point there will be a better explaination for the effect we see in the world as evolution, none has come along yet.

 

The evidence simply does not support the creation of life as a single and static event. The geological record is full of cataclismic events which have eliminated the majoirty of life in the world at the time. After these events the fossil record shows how the remaining life has radiated into to many species to fill the many empty ecological niches. It's a process that can be clearly described and one that doesn't need a conscious intervention to make work.

 

God is simply what we don't understand yet, and evolution doesn't come under that category anymore. We even understand the primary mechanism through which evolution works now with the discovery of DNA.

 

Some historical examples are the way natural phenomena that weren't understood were given human aspects like Vulcan and his forges causing vulcanism or Zeus hurling his bolts down from Olympus to explain lightning.

 

Under the Israelites all of the unexplained was brought under one all powerful god and Christ brought a human connection to that god.

 

Now developments like quantum entanlgement are showing us that life and matter can be connected at some very fundamental levels.