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Evolution versus Creationism: Evolution leads the truth over Creationism

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Evolution and Creationism have been a heated debate in the school system for years. There is a lot more evidence shows that Evolution is better than Creationism but some people don’t believe that. Like how the Earth was created slow and instead of fast like the Bible says. And how plant and animal life evolved more slowly than the Bible saying that God created the plant and animal life on Earth. But people need to open there eyes and see that the Bible is just one big story and Evolution is history and is still making it today. So Evolution will always be on top of how life got started.

Evolution versus Creationism: Evolution leads the truth over Creationism
“It is a primordial mystery that has engaged human imagination from the down time: Who are we? Where did we come from? What is our ultimate destiny? The story of creation—whether told through the imagery of ancient myth; the revelations of scared tradition or the theories of modern physics and biology – is the story of what it means to be a human. And it is a story over which religion and science have been fighting for centuries. Since Copernicus overturned the church-sanctioned view of the Earth as the center of the universe and Charles Darwin posited random mutation and natural selection as the real creators of human life, the biblical view that ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth’ has found itself under increasing attack in modern Western thought” (Sheler, 1991, par. 1). The theory of Creation is that God created the heavens and the Earth, and that Adam & Eve were the first humans alive. The theory of Evolution is that the Earth was created through billions of years, and human and plant life evolved through biology. The significance of this topic is great because it has been a heated debate through centuries. But the most famous event that started



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